Infrastructure Engineer (Backup&restore)

Job purpose:

• Responsible for performing a wide variety of daily backup and restore management tasks as well as providing recommendations for effective and efficient backup/recovery system use.
• E2E Accountability and Responsibility for the successful availability of the IT Infrastructure – Servers and VMs, preferably in Telco environments 
• Day to day monitoring of HW, OS and VM. Drive analysis and resolution of any fault. Coordinate with 3PP for the resolution of faults. Monitor backup status every day, troubleshoot any failure, escalate and coordinate with vendor for resolution, period testing of restoration.
• Ensure Successful cross collaboration across team and services reporting 

Duties and responsibilities:

• Installing and configuration of backup software 
• Perform gap analysis of the existing infrastructure, create implementation plan to bridge the same. 
• Perform the implementation with the help of the team and make the infrastructure compliant with Industry best practices.
• Configuration / monitoring for backup alerts. Take preventive reactive actions based on alerts.
• Exposure / knowledge of ITIL practices (though preferred but not essential at this stage )
• Ability to adopt new storage and backup activities and capacity planning
• Coordination with Level 1, Level 2, Application Teams for their new requests for backup restoration etc.
• Assessment of the IT infrastructure also having ability to guide the teams.
• Operator’s possess (ITIL, eTOM) knowledge and hands on experience on providing solutions to Web and Application Servers: Apache / Nginx / Http running on LINUX OS
• Provide the optimum solution in Server, Storage, Networking and Middle ware services
• Good knowledge of OS Internals and understanding of the implementation life cycle.
• Prepare, maintain Documentation, Reports & provide follow up status on identified tasks
• Work as a team member, providing support to colleagues as and when required.
• Perform periodic review of the UNIX IT policies and standards to ensure that the IT infrastructure is aligned to technology standards. 

Skills:

• 1 - 2 years’ experience of as OS and Backup Administrator
• Virtualization: VMware ESXi/KVM/Xen.
• Experience with Ruby, Python and SCM frameworks like Chef/Puppet/Fabric is desirable.
• Experience with: administering a pool of Linux servers, Virtualization, SAN/NAS, SQL, Load balancing, application monitoring/backup technologies, web/database server administration is desirable.
• Extensive knowledge of UNIX processes, ability to build a process from the scratch and implement across organization. Optimize security process with the help of new technology.
• Good knowledge of UNIX tools such as TCP/IP netstat, iostat, DNS, SMTP, SNMP, HTTP and IT Incident & Event Management
• Perform periodic review of the UNIX IT policies and standards to ensure that the IT infrastructure is aligned to technology standards.
• Scripting language experience is preferred 

Working at VEON demands a high standard of business ethics and adherence to our legal obligations, our values and our Code of Conduct and supporting compliance policies and procedures. Our pioneering spirit is embodied in our values to be customer obsessed, entrepreneurial, innovative, collaborative, and truthful.  Being truthful requires us to act ethically, honestly, and with integrity.