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Job Description Old Mutual Insure is looking for a passionate, solution-driven Backup Specialist who would be responsible for designing, installing, configuring, upgrading and maintaining the storage management system, utilities and hardware associated with the enterprise backup and recovery environment. Manage the day-to-day storage and backup operations including, coordinating backup schedules, performing system restores, and participating in disaster recovery planning and exercises.
You would: Be responsible for designing, installing, configuring, upgrading and maintaining the storage management system, utilities and hardware.
Ensure that all new servers have backup solutions before going into production; this includes initiation and management of new backup requests.
Install, configure and upgrade server and backup software.
Manage and monitor all backup schedules and provide backup and recovery support to internal IT areas and business.
Provide documented, consistent and repeatable backup, recovery, and archival procedures.
Develop and implement business continuity practices for storage management.
Maintain and modify backup and recovery procedures to meet high availability and critical business needs.
Contribute to technical architecture discussions to determine the most appropriate scalable model taking into consideration high availability failover and disaster recovery.
Generate, review and analyse daily, weekly and monthly backup reports.
Identify areas to improve operational effectiveness and work with project teams to deploy/upgrade backup solutions.
Provide daily reports on the status of backup jobs and dashboards that provide visibility into the overall operation and performance of the backup environments both on premise and cloud.
Ensure all exceptions are managed and reported on a daily basis.
Develop, implement and track procedures for tracking off-site storage, data restoration and recovery testing, data encryption and disaster recovery.
Maintain audit requirements for backups/restores.
Ensure success of backups and continuous backup optimization.
Experience, knowledge & skills required Diploma or Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or similar.
3 – 5 years' experience with enterprise backup & recovery on premise.
1 – 3 years' experience with enterprise backup & recovery in cloud.
3 - 5 years' experience with recovery procedures, and system monitoring tools.
Backup certification.
Practical understanding of ITIL and Cobit.
Knowledge of System Performance and Server Performance Management.
Knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, 802.1x, and DHCP protocols.
Knowledge of Windows and Linux Servers.
Knowledge of Server Operations.
Knowledge of both physical and virtualized servers, especially Hyper-V and VMware.
Knowledge of Architecture and design of Backup Infrastructure.
Knowledge of AWS server workloads both physical and virtualised across the cloud native technologies will be advantageous.
Working knowledge on new generation backup tools like CommVault, Veritas, Rubrik, Veeam etc. will be advantageous.
Knowledge of SAN technology basics will be advantageous.
The Recruitment process: TA Interview: This will be a discussion with a member of the TA Team to give you an understanding of our business, our culture & values and more context on the role. It will also allow us the opportunity to get to know you a little better, and ensure OMI can meet your needs.
Panel Interview: This will be with members of the hiring team.
Technical & Psychometric Assessments: These will depend on the role and will sometimes happen concurrently with MIE & Internal Verification.
Final feedback.
All About OMI: Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 14 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management and Banking and Lending. We are rooted in our purpose of Championing Mutually Positive Futures Every Day and believe that a great customer experience is anchored in a great employee experience.
Closing Date: 22 October 2024
The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question. Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.
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