Senior Systems Engineer II (Backup)

Job Description

Overview

This role is responsible for designing, deploying, testing, and maintaining the organization’s backup systems and all related components. This includes working with SAN, NAS, tape systems, local disk, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and other storage technologies. 

Key Responsibilities 

Design, implement, and support the organization’s backup infrastructure. 

• Serve as the subject matter expert for all backup environments. 

• Build and maintain backup solutions for both physical and virtual machines across Linux and Windows, using OEM and third‑party tools. 

• Configure and provision backups for Linux and Windows servers. 

• Strengthen and maintain security throughout the backup environment. 

• Monitor backups, resolve issues, troubleshoot failures, address performance bottlenecks, and configure alerting for proactive response. 

• Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, SAN and tape infrastructure, and server plugins, ensuring all hardware, software, firmware, and patches stay current. 

• Ensure high system availability by verifying data replication, failover copies, and redundant datasets. 

• Monitor and test application performance, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with developers on solutions. 

• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies. 

• Write and maintain scripts to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention (including IaaS backup monitoring). 

• Support the design of information and operational support systems. 

• Provide Tier 3 support. 

• Work with vendors and other IT teams to resolve issues. 

• Maintain thorough and up‑to‑date technical documentation, including inventory, patch levels, system configuration details, hostnames, IPs, and credentials. 

• Integrate systems with Linux and Windows as needed for core services. 

• Document system configurations such as passwords, access controls, version/revision numbers, patch levels, and hardware inventory. 

• Train government staff and transfer knowledge using industry best practices. 

• Provide real‑time reporting on backup storage usage, performance metrics, availability, and trends for tape and disk systems. 

Education, Background and Years of Experience

A minimum of 6 years’ experience with enterprise backup and recovery solutions is required.
A bachelor's degree is preferred.
Experience in Cohesity NetBackup and IBM Spectrum Product Suite is preferred.
Experience with enterprise storage technology is preferred.

Required Skills

A minimum of 6 years of experience with enterprise backup and recovery solutions is required
 

Preferred Skills

• Cohesity -Data Protect
• Other Cohesity systems
• Q-star Technologies
• Oracle tape libraries
• Quantum tape libraries
• Spectra Logic – BlackPearl
• Spectra Logic – Spectra Stack tape library

Working Conditions

Office environment.  Occasionally lift 50+ lbs in teams.

• Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
• Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
• Honest - Be Trustworthy. Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
• Humble - Be Grounded. Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
• Hungry - Be Eager. Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
• Hustle - Be Driven. Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.