Storage Engineer Job Listing at NJM Insurance Group in Trenton, NJ (Job ID R2005987)

Description

Position Summary:

• install, configure, and perform daily management of the data protection solutions
• design and test data recovery in simulated disaster recovery and malware related events
• technical lead for the team in quarterly Disaster Recovery exercises
• install, configure, and perform daily operational management of the storage environment
• install, configure, and perform daily management of fiber channel storage area networks
• perform capacity management and end-to-end performance monitoring of the managed environments
• maintain, upgrade, and manage the lifecycles of the storage and data protection hardware/software
• produce reports that provide visibility into the current state of the shared storage environment

Job Responsibilities:

Data Management:

• Implement and continually improve data protection and data security
• Verify and validate backup data through quarterly restore testing
• Investigate technologies to pro-actively run malware scans of backup data
• Review the daily backup reports and replication reports and identity/resolve issues
   

Incident Management:

• Take ownership of incidents, work to resolution and identify root cause
• Work with various IT teams when need to troubleshoot and resolve issues
   

Operations and monitoring:

• Daily monitoring and reporting of data backup and recovery activities
• Storage management:  block and NAS capacity allocations, SAN zoning, etc.
• Maintain storage applications:  patching, upgrades, feature configuration
• Perform daily monitoring and performance analysis of the storage and backup components
• Manage change requests, work orders and support tickets and see them through to completion
   

Support various computing environments:

• Ability to identify and deliver solutions for on premise, cloud, and hybrid environments
• Ability to understand and apply appropriate security concepts, controls, and processes
• Participate in annual business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery (DR) testing.
   

Training:

• Proactively stay in-step with technology changes through self-learning
• Cross-train team members
• Attend technical and security-oriented training sessions to learn new and develop existing skills
• Network with peers

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of experience working in a production Information Technology environment
• 3+ years of experience managing Data Protection solutions/environments
• hands-on experience working in support of a production IT environment
• strong communication skills
• ability to manage and escalate incidents and to see them through to resolution
• experience supporting virtual environments and operating systems:  windows, vmware, linux, aws-ec2
• experience in documenting procedures, environments, and project work
• participation in a 7-day on call rotation and occasional weekend work
• hybrid work arrangement:  3 days in the office (Tuesday and Thursday mandatory), 2 days remote

Legal Disclaimer: NJM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting, retaining and promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce that is fully representative of the diversity that exists in the communities in which we do business.