Spectrum Protect Administrator

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
As Spectrum Protect Administrator you are responsible to provide technical support with high degree of Customer satisfaction by meeting Service Level Agreements (SLA) and process compliance. You will perform business impact analysis and risk assessments to reduce the likelihood of significant service outage or disasters. You will need to visit the domestic client’s offices / data centers on a daily basis or on an as-needed basis as part of this role
Role and Responsibilities

• Install and configure, migrate the Spectrum Protect Server Instances and Spectrum Protect Clients.
• Configure LAN Free and LAN based backups as per customer requirement.
• Spectrum Protect backup Software system administration for daily Backup Operation service.
• Configure the Tape Library paths and drive configuration on hosts.
• Monitor daily Spectrum Protect Schedule backups/Manual backup and analyze failed backups.
• Periodically audit Spectrum Protect Backup operation at both the DC/DR sites.
• Analyze backup policies and retention periodically.
• Periodically run the backed-up data restoration process based on customer’s business needs.
• Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Yearly Backup Operation Report submit to Customer as part of Spectrum Protect system administration task
• Periodically run Spectrum Protect server and Clients environment health checkup and necessary tuning based on backup/restoration loads.
• Periodically Install Software Fix-pack/maintenance patch based on Problem/troubleshooting analysis from Spectrum Protect Software PMR Support team.
• Backup Performance Monitoring for All the Spectrum Protect clients installed and configured in various Application and database servers.
• Spectrum Protect Server’s Database Monitoring and periodically housekeeping of Spectrum Protect server’s database and logs.
• Tape Management of Spectrum Protect Clients backup and periodically Tape Library Audit from Spectrum Protect server.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Install, configure, and migrate Spectrum Protect server instances and client software.
• Set up and configure LAN Free and LAN-based backup solutions according to customer requirements
• Administer Spectrum Protect backup software for daily backup operations.
• Configure tape library paths and drive settings on host systems.
• Monitor daily Spectrum Protect scheduled backups and manual backups, and analyze any failures
• Willingness to work in nights shifts or support 24 x 7 Coverage as per the Business needs

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation abilities.
• Detail-oriented with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team