Systems Engineer II (Backup)

TMC TECHNOLOGIES; Pocatello (ID); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TMC Technologies seeks a Backup and Recovery Systems Engineer to design, deploy, test, and support backup infrastructure across Linux and Windows, including SAN/NAS/Tape. US citizenship with active Top Secret clearance and SCI eligibility are required for federal contract work; position is based in Idaho as a full-time staff role.

You will be the backup SME, implement recovery processes, monitor performance, write automation scripts, and coordinate with vendors and development teams to ensure

Qualifications

• US Citizenship and active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required.
• Minimum of 6 years with enterprise backup solutions.
• Experience with Cohesity, Veritas NetBackup, Veeam, and IBM Spectrum Protect Suite.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and provide ongoing support of the Backup Infrastructure.
• Serve as the advanced matter expert for all Backup environments.
• Create and maintain backup infrastructure for Linux and Windows servers.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain security across backup infrastructure.
• Monitor and resolve backup issues and develop recovery processes.

Skills

Backup systems

Cohesity

Veritas NetBackup

Veeam

IBM Spectrum Protect

Linux

Windows

Education

High School / GED

Bachelor's Degree preferred

Tools

Cohesity

Veritas NetBackup

Veeam

IBM Spectrum Protect Suite

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Job Title

Location

Category

Information Technology

Job Type

Full-time

Staff

Education

High School / GED

Travel

None

Security Clearance Required

TS

Job Description

TMC Technologies is in search of a Backup and Recovery Systems Engineer to be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base data backup system, but for all features, components, and application dependencies to include Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Tape, local disk, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc. The candidate must be a US citizen and possess a minimum of an active Top Secret clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility to start due to federal contract requirements.

The Systems Engineer II (Backup) will have the following responsibilities:

• - Design, implement, and provide ongoing support of the Backup Infrastructure.
• - Serve as the advanced matter expert for all Backup environments.
• - Create and maintain backup infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools on Linux and Windows environments.
• - Provision/configure required backups for Linux and Window servers.
• - Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the backup infrastructure.
• - Monitor and correct backup issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks and configure alerts for proactive response times.
• - Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, SAN and Tape infrastructure and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions.
• - Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability to include verification of the replication of data, fail over copies, redundant data sets.
• - Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
• - Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• - Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as monitoring backup storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• - Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
• - Provide 3rd level support.
• - Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• - Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.
• - Integrate systems with Windows and Linux as it applies to core service dependencies.
• - Document system configurations to include passwords, access controls, version number, and revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory to include hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
• - Continually transition knowledge to the Government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
• - Provide real-time reporting of backup storage consumed and utilized resources to include performance metrics for tape and disk space consumption, storage availability, performance, and trends.

Job Requirements

• US Citizenship and active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required; If a candidate does not have a CI poly, the FBI will conduct one after hire, and maintaining employment is dependent upon the candidate's ability to pass the CI polygraph.
• Minimum of 6 years with enterprise backup solutions (such as Cohesity, Veritas NetBackup, Veeam, IBM Spectrum Protect Suite experience) required.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred
• Cohesity experience highly preferred

We are equal opportunity/affirmative action employers, committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under state or local law.

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