Backup Administrator Job Description
Backup administrator
provides level 3 Backup and Recovery support, with a strong technical understanding of Windows, Linux, ESXi, Storage, Tooling & Monitoring.
Backup Administrator Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Perform daily monitoring and management of the backup environment
Perform problem management and incident correlation on re-occurring issues
Create and provide reports for backup and storage environments, related activities, and tasks
Create and update documentation for backup environments
Be an escalation point on all backup issues
Local and international projects internal career opportunities
Access to high class technologies
Provide 24x7 IT operations support in a team on a rotation and on-call basis
Develop and exhibit technical subject matter expertise on the assigned backup and storage systems along with associated processes and procedures
Perform change management and incident management for backup and archiving infrastructure
Backup Administrator Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Backup Administrator
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ITIL, CISSP, MCSE, EMC, III, IAT, SVC, IIS, RHCA, ASE
Education for Backup Administrator
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the backup administrator job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Education, Technical, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Science
Skills for Backup Administrator
Desired skills for backup administrator include:
Storage Libraries
TCP/IP
Data backup and restoration methodologies
DNS
Email and networking
Linux
Manage and resolve problems identified by system administration
Monitoring software
NetBackup
Scheduling backup jobs/policies
Desired experience for backup administrator includes:
Advanced knowledge and experience with tape based backup hardware
Experience with deduplication storage systems, with Data Domain being preferred
Experience with SAN Fabric Technologies
Experience in installation and management of integration clients
Experience in Tape Library management
Experience in administrating applications build in Clusters
Backup Administrator Examples
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Backup Administrator Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of backup administrator. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for backup administrator
- Ensure Support Guides and related documentation is up-to-date
- Able to work from home including facilitating incident calls, monitoring processes, and able to respond to phone calls from remote sites including home
- Understand IT and ITO Service Model and how daily activities are related to its defined Services
- Fulfill corporate compliance tasks including mandatory training and weekly timesheets
- Participate to support shift on Storage & Backup perimeter
- Enforce existing Global standards for Storage & Backup perimeter
- Perform daily monitoring and management of all backup related activities, including executing restore jobs, troubleshooting failed jobs, and initiating corrective action
- Perform diagnosis, troubleshoot, and conduct root-cause analysis for any issues escalated on the storage and backup platforms
- Participate in the building, installation, configuration and testing of servers, storage, and backup infrastructure for new use, upgrades or lifecycle replacement
- Create and communicate reports for backup and storage environments
Qualifications for backup administrator
- Experience in Virtual Tape Library management is considered an advantage
- Knowledge of Disaster Recovery policies and procedures
- Experience in scripting (bash, perl)
- Knowledge of SAN technology basics
- Willingness to learn and share knowledge Required
- German language skills are considered an advantage
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of backup administrator. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for backup administrator
- Expertise in High availability, DR fail over and failback configurations
- End-user and crisis management
- Ability to conduct trainings, address meetings, vendor reviews
- Advanced knowledge of OS, Database, and Volume Management
- Shell scripting, automation and tool implementations
- Any technology related industry standard certification for L3 skills
- Basic solution design skills
- Good understanding of heterogeneous multi technology environments, inter-operability issues
- Administer L1/L2 activities
- Analysis of usage, performance data and reporting
Qualifications for backup administrator
- Skills in all levels of support (including implementation of Backup&Restore solutions, preparation of DR plans)
- Ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner both in written form of emails, ticket comments, and verbally
- Storage & various OS level inter dependency issues administration skillset are required
- Business continuity solution on storage platform of various vendor are required
- Candidate need to have experience on latest storage & SAN level developments like storage virtualization, easy tier, Infinyband network
- Good and applicable knowledge of IBM SVC (Storage Virtualization Controller
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of backup administrator. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for backup administrator
- Knowledge of systems and application development
- Ability to handle multi-tasking, prioritization and meet deadline with a flexible outlook and attitude
- Experience with enterprise level tool sets related to monitoring
- Strong technical experience with backup solutions and architecture including administration, configuration and troubleshooting of EMC Networker applications and Data Domain/Quantum hardware
- Minimum 5 years of experience in backup & storage functions
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a large enterprise environment
Qualifications for backup administrator
- At least 2 years of Backup Administration experience
- At least 1 year of Storage technical support experience
- At least 1 year of Cloud Technologies experience (AWS or Azure)
- At least 2 years of Backup Configuration/Design/Troubleshooting
- At least 1 year of SAN Fabric and SAN storage
- Communicate with remote team using IT tools (email, instant message, mobile phone)
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Our company is looking to fill the role of backup administrator. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for backup administrator
- Troubleshoot complex issues and provide solutions
- Design, innovate, deploy and follow solutions/procedures to improve working process
- Implementing changes in the Backup environment
- Create and implement service improvements
- Knowledge of Backup hardware (physical and disk-based Virtual Tape Library (VTL) libraries)
- Knowledge with HP StoreOnce (D2D, B6200), HP StoreEver (MSL, ESL), HP VLS 9000 Series, EMC DataDomain, IBM Tape Systems
- Good understanding of External Disk Arrays, RAID array controllers and their management
Qualifications for backup administrator
- Have regular interactions with both internal and external customers Account Managers and management
- Highly motivated and results-driven individual capable of operating independently within standard operating procedures and methods
- Strong knowledge on backup software technologies
- Skilled in all TSM functions, such as TSM server installation, configuration and administration, scripting & custom-select queries
- Knowledge of overall backup and storage design and related issues
- Knowledge on storage hardware technologies, such as Hitachi HUS-VM, IBM v3700, EMC VNX
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a backup administrator. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for backup administrator
- Maintains and monitors backup servers
- Performs daily routine maintenance, review Backup status
- Ensures regular reporting to management regarding performance and service levels of Backup systems, to inform responsible management about major deviations and/or corrective actions
- Support and maintain SAN environments
- Generate periodic reports of system availability to management and external teams
- Identify and work with other groups to coordinate application interdependencies and resolve issues
- Evaluate, recommend, and implement strategies for growth and scalability
- Provide ongoing support, maintenance and training on the implemented systems
- Provide leadership to identify, manage risks, and resolve issues in a team environment
- Work independently with little supervision on day-to-day tasks, receiving general instructions on new assignments
Qualifications for backup administrator
- Adhere to existing policies and procedures and enforce them within the team
- Perform in an environment that may include frequent changes, delays, or unexpected production outages
- Follow instructions and respond to management direction
- Actively participate with and direct teams, including the Incident Management team, to identify the root cause of incidents
- Address escalations and ensure communications are distributed accordingly
- Capture and report weekly and monthly operations metrics