Lead NetApp Storage

Skill : NetApp Storage & Veritas NetBackup

Level : M or SM level

Location : Pune / Bangalore / Hyderabad

Notice Period : Short Joiner

Responsibilities -

Experience in SAN, NAS, with Netapp and DELL and EMC storages and Veritas Net Backup, Appliance backup tool.

• Perform run-the-business SAN administrative duties, including upgrades, standard allocations, port allocations/zoning, break-fix, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Resource knowledge on Backup Management
• Participate in large scale component upgrades, datacenter migrations, and similar enterprise initiatives.
• Develop, communicate, and monitor the operational standards and procedures for backups. Perform all routine administrative and operational tasks
• Manage current storage environment.
• Incorporates disk, tape, SAN, ISCSI and storage software.
• Resolve storage short falls.
• Alert and resolve performance issues and advise end users.
• High availability of data to all applications.
• Data Migrations & Replication.
• Work with application developers to determine storage requirements.
• Work with existing programmers, System Administrators and DBAs to optimize storage.
• Maintain proper backup schedules. Restore and recover data as requested. Facilitate off-site storage of tape.
• Disk usage, Performance, Storage availability, reporting on status, forecast pipeline of storage growth.
• Determine allocation of different storage and service tiers.
• Responsible for planning and execution of the storage installation.
• Perform any host-level tasks need to access new storage.
• Extensive experience deploying mission critical servers in a 24×7 production environment.
• Mentor and create documentation/knowledge base articles for routine tasks and troubleshoot on the infrastructure under support.

Backup Skills

• Lead daily operations and administration of Veritas NetBackup, including Flex Appliances, traditional NetBackup Appliances, and legacy deployments.

• Manage backup policies, schedules, and retention configurations across heterogeneous workloads and platforms.

• Oversee backup storage targets – tape libraries, disk storage, and Flex storage – ensuring optimal performance and utilization.

• Plan and execute NetBackup upgrades, patching, and migrations from legacy to modern appliance-based environments.

• Troubleshoot backup/restore failures, media issues, and catalog inconsistencies, ensuring SLA compliance.

• Coordinate disaster recovery simulations and validate end-to-end restore capabilities for critical systems.

• Monitor and tune backup performance, deduplication efficiency, and storage consumption.

• Collaborate with infrastructure, storage, and application teams to align protection policies with business requirements.

• Implement and maintain encryption, access control, and data protection compliance across all backup components.

• Manage vendor engagement for Veritas and hardware support, including firmware upgrades and case resolutions.

• Maintain operational documentation, topology maps, and SOPs for all backup infrastructure components.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to backup administrators and ensure consistent operational practices across environments.

• Administration of backup data replication topology.

Day to day Tasks:

• Align job policy for retention and compliance by mandated legal and agency data handling requirements.
• Operate hardware/software for the Backup and Recovery infrastructure;
• Configuration of Volume Pools, Storage Units, Policies, Tape drives and Robot.
• Configure and monitor archive retention policies and prepare audit reports;
• Coordinating with vendors in fixing the issue
• Creating a Virtual Tape library and hands on Experience with VTL
• Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving and organizational skills
• Experience with and understanding of Tape Libraries;
• Installation and configuration of Database agents.
• Installation and configuration of Master/Media and clients.
• Media / Capacity / Policy management & basic health checkup needs to be managed
• Monitor and resolve alerts
• Monitor system security