Backup Architect: Avamar & Data Domain Specialist

AMroute LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

AMroute LLC is seeking an experienced backup operations professional to manage and optimize enterprise backup environments. The role covers Avamar, Data Domain, and DPA across multiple data centers, with responsibilities spanning daily operations, issue resolution, and coordination with customers.

You will participate in CAB meetings, support cloud-related troubleshooting, and drive data protection projects including capacity expansion and virtualization initiatives.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on experience with PPDM, Avamar 19.8+, Data Domain 7.7+ and DPA 19.4+.
• Nice-to-have knowledge of Isilon, CloudIQ, Vcenter, NDMP, ServiceNow, Office 365, Networking, FTP; scripting and UNIX/PowerShell familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Check and confirm all systems maintenance are running fine on Avamar and Data Domain servers; resolve issues.
• Monitor daily backup failures across VM, NAS, DB2, Oracle, and file system backups.
• Handle restore requests from customers as needed.
• Verify LPR backups for MDC/PSAC2; manage legacy backups as required.
• Coordinate with support for hardware failures and CE interactions.
• Support Elastic Cloud troubleshooting (certificates, disk replacements, reporting).
• Perform upgrades to Data Domain, Avamar, and DPA.
• Attend customer meetings to review backup issues and CAB meetings.
• Lead data protection capacity expansion and Avamar virtualization projects.
• Migrate data and balance load across MDC PS nodes during refresh projects.
• Collaborate with server, network, application, and security teams on backup requirements.

Skills

PPDM

Avamar 19.8 & later

Data Domain 7.7 & later

DPA 19.4 & later

Tools

Isilon

CloudIQ

Vcenter

NDMP

ServiceNow

Office 365

Networking

FTP

UNIX

PowerShell

Job description

AMroute LLC is seeking an experienced backup operations professional to manage and optimize enterprise backup environments. The role covers Avamar, Data Domain, and DPA across multiple data centers, with responsibilities spanning daily operations, issue resolution, and coordination with customers.

You will participate in CAB meetings, support cloud-related troubleshooting, and drive data protection projects including capacity expansion and virtualization initiatives.