Sr. Solution Architect

Job Title:    Sr. Solution Architect

Location:    Remote/Local to Chicago

Duration:   6+ Months

Description:

Must have skills: Avamar, Data Domain, PPDM, Networker

Detailed Project Tasks:

Resident will be responsible for assisting customer with planning and perform of backup data - re-pointing and operations management of the backup environment. Principle duties include:

Environment discovery and assessment:

• Review existing Avamar, Networker and Data Domain configuration, policies, schedules, retention setting and protection groups
• Document current backup clients, workloads, data domains/MTrees and replication relationships in place
• Backup architecture and migration planning
• Assist in defining the target backup architecture leveraging PPDM and Data Domain in the new Dell private cloud solution
• Map legacy Avamar/Networker backup policies and workflows to PPDM policies and Data Domain targets

PPDM and Data Domain configuration support

• Assist with configuration and validation of PDM components required to protect in-scope workloads (e.g. protection policies, schedules, SLAs retention)
• Assist with configuration and tuning of Data Domain for use as a backup target (e.g. DD Boost, Mtrees, storage units, logical capacity planning, and basic replication configuration where required.
• Assist with application signoff on major backup configurations changes or revision of new backup standards, for example global skip directives of database servers
• Network integration and target repointing
• Assist with configuring Networker to use the new Data Domain systems as backup targets, including creation and modification of DD Boost devices and storage units
• Repoint in-scope Network backup jobs and client configurations from legacy Data Domain systems to new Data Domian environment, where appropriate and agreed in the migration plan.
• Long term retention data migrations where applicable
• Avamar/legacy backup transition support
• Assist in transitioning in-scope backup workloads from Avamar to PPDM/Data Domain, as defined in the migration plan (for example, creating equivalent backup policies and enabling new backups on PPDM