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Commvault
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About Commvault
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data.
The Opportunity
We have an outstanding opportunity for a Sr. Data Protection Engineer in our Commvault Managed Services team. The Engineer will interact directly with customers and customer environments to provide day-to-day operational management of our customer’s Commvault solution. The ideal candidate will have experience within the areas of troubleshooting the infrastructure and product issues.
What you’ll do…
- Successfully interact through phone and email with customers as you solve their problems
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex customer issues
- Install and configure Commvault hardware and software following the design specifications provided to meet the customer’s technical and business requirements.
- Onboarding new accounts in partnership with our Data Protection Specialist or Professional Services team
- Perform data migration tasks to transition the customer from the previous backup infrastructure to the new infrastructure.
- Install and configure backup agents to protect the customers applications, databases, and hypervisors.
- Work with the customer and Commvault technical support and/or development to troubleshoot any technical issues blocking progress.
- Maintain case ownership and keep customers informed of progress on their issues by contacting them periodically with updates.
- Consistently meet/exceed customer account needs; identify opportunities to enhance delivery of company service and support goals.
- Architect Commvault software solutions to address customer needs. Suggest these solutions to the customer proactively to continuously expand and improve customer deployment of Commvault.
- Develop requirements and design for Commvault software modifications and enhancements. Actively work with developers to implement and test these enhancements.
- Develop subject matter expertise of assigned client/partners product lines, equipment APRs, SOPs, Bugs, and applicable fixes.
- Work independently with a focused direction while adding value and contributing to overall team performance.
- Maintain an on-going awareness of the Customer base and ensure delivery against contractual obligations.
- Continually pursue on-going training and development opportunities to advance skill sets and, in turn, ability to effectively deliver to Customers.
- Stay up to date on the latest best practices to ensure the smoothest Managed Services delivery
Who you are…
- Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Science / Information Technology / Electronics OR Bachelor of Computer Application + Master of Computer Application.
- Commvault or any other backup product experienced professional with 9+ years of relevant experience in Technical Support / Professional Services / Managed Services / Backup Administration
- Required Technical Skills:
- Strong knowledge & experience of Networking, Storage & Linux Operating System
- Proficiency with TCP/IP networking
- Proficiency with SCSI, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel
- Commvault implementation & advanced troubleshooting experience
- Proficiency with backup and recovery of Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams)
- Proficiency with backup and recovery of Microsoft Applications (SQL Server, SharePoint and Exchange)
- Proficiency with backup and recovery of databases (Oracle, SAP/Oracle, SAP HANA)
- Proficiency with Public Cloud platform like AWS, GCP, Azure etc.
- Proficiency with private cloud (VMware, Hyper-V)
- Preferred Technical Skills:
- Hands-on experience with object storage (AWS S3, NetApp StorageGRID)
- Hands-on experience with data archive and search
- Proficiency with Linux scripting
- Advanced Commvault Certification (Solutions Architect, Master)
- Desired Technical Skills:
- Advanced Industry Certification (AWS, VMWare, Microsoft, Linux)
- Excellent diagnostic and troubleshooting skills.
- Must be able to multi-task and effectively prioritize within a high volume/time sensitive environment
- Ability to take detailed notes, work independently and efficiently to communicate effectively as a member of a remote workforce
- Excellent communication etiquette, including strong verbal, written communication and listening skills.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and then leverage gained knowledge.
- Enjoy working in a highly technical team environment
- Customer focused approach with strong customer service skills
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