Backup, Storage/NAS and Data Centre Administrator

About the role

Backup, Storage/NAS and Data Centre Administrator role responsible for administering and maintaining enterprise backup, storage, and data centre infrastructure in an insurance environment. The role involves ensuring compliance with ICT policies, regulatory requirements including BNM RMiT, and managing critical infrastructure operations across Production, DR and Development environments.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with ICT policies, standards, security guidelines and regulatory requirements, including BNM RMiT
• Administer SAN, NAS and hyperconverged storage platforms, including provisioning LUNs, datastores, storage pools and file shares
• Configure Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NFS connectivity
• Monitor capacity, latency and storage performance, and perform firmware upgrades, patching, snapshots, replication and cloning
• Administer, monitor and maintain the Company's enterprise backup and recovery solution
• Monitor daily backup jobs and investigate, troubleshoot and resolve backup failures and restore issues within agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Perform backup verification, restoration testing and backup health checks
• Administer Production, DR and Development Data Centre environments, monitoring power, cooling, racks and environmental alerts
• Lead capacity planning and technology refresh initiatives, and evaluate emerging infrastructure technologies
• Participate in Disaster Recovery exercises and recovery operations, monitoring replication health and ensuring Production-to-DR replication operates successfully

About you

• Must possess at least a diploma in computer science, IT or equivalent
• At least 2 years as a System Administrator, System Engineer, or Subject Matter Expert relevant to the position applied for
• Excellent knowledge of system administration roles and technologies of backup (Veem/NetBackup), storage/NAS (HPE/IBM/Lenovo) and data centre
• Experience in Windows/Linux environment and virtualisation technologies (VMware, Oracle KVM, Linux OpenShift)
• Excellent knowledge of the ITIL framework, such as Incident, Change and Problem management
• Experience with security concepts and technologies (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature), SSL, web service proxies, firewalls, multi-protocol gateways and VPN
• Good understanding of Disaster Recovery and BCP activities
• Experience in Enterprise IT infrastructure and system environments, especially in the Banking/Insurance sector, is an added advantage
• Knowledge of BNM RMIT guidelines is an added advantage
• Any certifications in Data Centre, Windows, VMware, Cloud, IT Security, ITIL, Veeam, Storage/NAS