Backup and Storage Administrator - Commvault

Backup and Storage Administrator - Commvault

• To administer all data protection & storage administration activities, backups validity and data security to continuously ensure the recovery readiness of systems and business continuity.
• Carry out all data protection related maintenance and configuration activities (Mainly Commvault and rarely Veeam) to ensure maximum recovery readiness for all systems, databases and file servers.
• Review the backup solutions software life cycle and maintain regularly servers, backup software, and storage pools through the installation of software upgrades, patches, and hardware required upgrades for the backup solutions.
• Work with the application stakeholders to define the backup policies, recovery objective, backup schedules and recovery time intended for each application & provide support to the applications different teams during projects and implementations.
• Provide support for the backup operators in their Day-to-Day operations and in troubleshooting backup failures and missed backup schedules and identify the failures root causes.
• Ensure all backup solutions are monitored, logging, alerting and notifications are enabled/configured along with monitoring the completion/failure of all backup schedules.
• Participate in backup solutions design, capacity planning, and performance trend analysis.
• Perform ongoing tuning for backup solution components and employ new features to continuously improve backup and recovery performance.
• Perform and automate ongoing health checks, resources utilization trend analysis, and conduct risk assessment exercises for backup solutions to ensure efficiency, availability and smooth functionality.
• Apply fixes and security patches to remediate security issues, comply with the global security standards (PCI, ISO, etc.), close audit requirements and findings and support the strategy for implementing security baselines.
• Apply technology best practices, upgrades, apply vendor recommendations, & service and operation level agreements (SLA/OLA), in addition to abiding to target Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Conduct and support backup recovery/restore testing and validation.
• Ensure backup solution Disaster Readiness, backups availability and backup operations functionality in Disaster recovery situations.
• Participate in writing technical procedures, run books, documentations for backup solutions and backup and recovery operations.