System Administrator & Backup Lead

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

We are currently seeking a backup engineer to join our efforts to define, design and lead the operation of the backup services & technologies located across global geographies within our company.

The Backup technologies include Veritas Netbackup, Commvault Cloud, Data Domains, Oracle and SQL backups, NAS file system Backups and more…

The candidate will be responsible for the availability of MSI Data protection, will update the standards and procedures, and will lead toward providing a reliable high availability, cost effective, secured and efficient systems for our internal clients and applications.

Operating environments include AWS Cloud, OCI Cloud, GCP, and On premise systems using Linux/Windows, bare metal servers, VMware and other virtual environments.

Job Description

Responsibilities and role :

As the service owner you will be accountable for the backup operations, continual improvement, and cost and vendor management, in order to have a highly available, reliable, serviceable, secure & efficient environment for our Internal customers.

Key Duties And Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage all backup and recovery operations, proactively identifying and mitigating risks while capitalizing on opportunities
• Serve as the company subject matter expert for global backups and recovery environments.
• Maintain a project orientated approach, whilst keeping a keen eye on standards, next generation architecture, solution improvements and cost analysis.
• Advise on technology trends and standards.
• Guide technical staff on assignments to achieve desired outcomes and deliverables.
• Drive projects and initiatives working with backup admins and internal customers
• Provide expert support and analysis of complex problems including 3rd level support and guidance to the support staff.
• Ensure operating standards and procedures are defined and adhered to by others.
• Identify opportunities for infrastructure and process improvements.
• Deliver technology evaluations, and solution proposals ( on M&A).
• Define and deliver on capacity planning analysis and monthly reporting.
  
  

Adaptable to other IT infrastructure tasks within infrastructure teams defined by the business

Basic Requirements

Essential Skills/Abilities

• Has 5+ years experience, having held a high technical level position for the below requirements .
• Has experience and skills to lead a global team of backup administrators
• Given the importance of the backup, recovery and availability needs, the candidate should be aware of the processes and ensure data availability during normal operations, High Availability failover and Disaster Recovery events.
• With a significant on-prem and Cloud environments, candidates should have an in-depth understanding of commercial backup offerings of the major vendors. Have experience of providing data protection for databases such as SQL Server, and Oracle
• Demonstrates strong written and verbal English communication skills
• Has experience in creating processes and procedural documentation.
• Demonstrates exceptional problem solving skills.
• Providing in-depth investigations and root cause analysis of incidents and outages
• Provide strategic direction and ensure the delivery of technical based projects
• Have a flexible approach to working hours whilst part of a global organisation.
• Have experience in Multi-cloud environment backups
  
  

Desirable Skills/Abilities (but Not Essential)

• Understand the tiers of long term archive storage solutions available, both within the Data Centre and the major cloud providers such as AWS and OCI
• Experienced with ITIL Service Design
• Developed and maintained solution roadmaps
• Have been involved in defining backup/recovery processes, as well as supporting audit requirements.
  
  

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.