System Administrator

**Company Description**
Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 company, we employ over 15,300 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 330 locations across six continents. Expeditors satisfies the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems.

IS Global Service Center (GSC) operating from Chennai, India, is a part of IS supporting Expeditors IT operations. IS GSC has grown to 500+ employees today delivering world class Information services globally. This Product based Strategic Center's IT transformation has delivered a radical change to Expeditors IT manpower profile and skills over the past three years and will continue to deliver services as we continue to grow responsibly in the coming years.
**Job Description** SUMMARY**

The Data Center Infrastructure Team is responsible for managing Expeditors essential infrastructure. This infrastructure provides Expeditors the global connectivity, compute power, backups and storage to meet its growing demand to move freight. The Backup Administrator is responsible for the backup monitoring, support, troubleshooting, installation, and deployment of Cohesity and Commvault Backup systems.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Hands-on experience with Hitachi Data Protection Suite, Commvault, and Cohesity backup platforms.
- Strong understanding of backup and recovery strategies, including data protection, retention, and restoration practices.
- Proficient in configuring, troubleshooting, and maintaining backup policies, schedules, and job monitoring.
- Perform hardware maintenance, repairs, & replacements
- Deep understanding of data protection workflows, including full, incremental, differential, and synthetic backups.
- Experience with recovery methods, including point-in-time recovery, bare-metal restore, and disaster recovery (DR) processes.
- Familiarity with deduplication and compression techniques to optimize storage and backup performance.
- Ability to proactively monitor backup job performance, resolve failures, and ensure consistent success rates.
- Proficiency in diagnosing and resolving backup-related issues such as missed jobs, incomplete backups, and failed restores.
- Ability to optimize backup performance by fine-tuning parameters, troubleshooting bottlenecks, and enhancing overall system efficiency.
- Experience with load balancing and backup throughput optimization.
- Configuring and managing Auxiliary copy backups from Disk to tapes
- Firmware upgrade activities with respect to the backup environment.

**Qualifications** MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS**
- Experience with Cohesity backup solutions
- Experience with Commvault backup solutions
- Ability to work collaboratively in an agile team environment
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with mínimal supervision
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Knowledge of backup strategies and products
- An aptitude for methodical and comprehensive troubleshooting
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

**DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS**
- Experience with agile (SAFe) project planning
- Practiced in designing and implementing business continuity / disaster recovery and high availability plans
- Ability to assess backup storage requirements and plan for capacity expansion based on growing data volumes.
- Experience with managing backup storage hardware, including tape libraries and disk arrays.
- Good to have knowledge on Service Now handling and Cloud Solutions

**REPORTING STRUCTURE**
- Team Manager, Data Centers Team

**Additional Information**
Expeditors offers excellent benefits:

- Paid Vacation, Holiday
- Health Plan: Medical Insurance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Training and Education Programs
- Unlimited opportunities for career advancement