Backup Administrator

Established client in the education space is seeking an experienced Backup Administrator for a long-term contract opportunity. This position will be 100% onsite.


Contract Duration: 12+ Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Five years experience managing, designing, and/or implementing disaster recovery and business continuity procedures required.
• Experience with both physical and virtual tape/disk drives, library backup, and restore technologies; ability to work well and communicate with others in an effective manner, both written and oral; ability to analyze and solve problems; ability to translate technical needs and problems into creative solutions; strong communication and customer service skills with the ability to work well with peers and customers; ability to analyze existing processes and identify areas for improvement.
• High school diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor's degree in related field preferred.

What You Will Be Doing
Daily Responsibilities

• Conduct performance tuning for enterprise backup solutions.
• Manage the daily backup tasks for distributed systems, including monitoring all platforms for missed/failed backups.
• Manage capacity and availability of tape, disc, and other storage media for backups.
• Investigate hardware/software errors related to backups and coordinate the repair process.
• Open and track the status of issues opened via internal and external incident reports as necessary.
• Analyze historical trend data to assist in forecasting the need for configuration changes/upgrades.
• Audit all aspects of data backups to ensure the integrity of the backup environment.
• Evaluate overall backup system performance and report metrics to leadership.
• Assist in specifying and meeting system disaster recovery requirements.
• Assist in designing system processes and procedures for backup of enterprise systems.
• Utilize specialized backup software to develop and maintain an enterprise backup system effectively utilizing the features integrated into the software/hardware.
• Manage the scheduling and monitoring of all backup jobs.
• Document all job schedules and prepare drafts for submission to the department technical writer for publication.
• Ensure the integrity of backups by managing a schedule of rotating restores of all backup jobs.

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.