Sr Backup Administrator

What success looks like in this role:

• Performs higher-level, advanced backup duties as described below. • Provides support for storage system users – investigating, analyzing, and resolving basic issues. • Evaluates user needs or problems and takes appropriate action to resolve. • Performs daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes. • Reviews system and application logs, verifies completion of scheduled jobs, including backups. • Configures and manages user, group, permission, and related system access protocol. • Supports efforts to determine storage allocation, backup, and data restoration. • Performs technical configuration changes.

• Facilitates offsite storage.

• Supports efforts to evaluate new hardware and software management solutions. • Monitors system performance and generates reports and analysis of storage resources. Backup • Installs, upgrades and configures backup appliances. • Performs backup environment performance tuning and troubleshooting. • Handles and responds to high priority tickets and instances. • Installs and configures data protection software and associated components. • Sets up data duplication disk pools and related backup devices. • Ensures ongoing replication between locations. • Performs a range of system recovery and data restores based on client and/or company request. • Diagnoses platform issues, assisting with root cause analysis and change / risk assessment. • Supports system / process improvement planning and implementation.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

• BA/BS degree and 4-6 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Incident response and crisis management.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to work in high-pressure recovery scenarios.
• Ability to collaborate with IT, security, and compliance teams.
• Demonstrated ability to step into a team leadership role.

Required experience:

• Dell EMC Ecosystem: Avamar, PowerProtect, Data Domain, CyberSense (for analytics)
• Dell Cyber Recovery experience preferred.

Nice to have:

• PPDM (PowerProtect Data Manager)
• DPA (Data Protection Advisor)
• Virtualization: VMware, cloud-based recovery environments (AWS, Azure).
• Scripting/Automation: PowerShell, Python, or Bash for automating recovery workflows.

Benefit Highlights: Unisys offers an outstanding benefits package, featuring unlimited paid time off, a 401(k) match, comprehensive healthcare, HSA matching, ongoing learning opportunities, and more! We’re committed to supporting work-life balance and investing in your future success.

Video Interview Notice: At Unisys, we incorporate video interviews as a key part of our hiring process. This allows us to get to know you better and provide a more engaging and convenient interview experience. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to connecting with you virtually!

This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

Unisys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that considers all qualified applicants without regard to age, caste, citizenship, color, disability, family medical history, family status, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, parental status, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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