Backup, DR & Migration Consultant
On-siteMaidenhead, England, United Kingdom
EXPIREDMaidenhead, England, United KingdomOn-siteContractMedium
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Job Summary
Assess current backup, recovery, and DR configurations including Networker, Data Domain capacity, and replication topologies to define RTO/RPO targets. Design a vendor-neutral target backup and DR capability incorporating immutable, air-gapped copies and ransomware resilience. Develop a phased, wave-based migration strategy respecting data-centre space, power, and cooling constraints, ensuring non-disruptive cutover and legacy decommissioning. Contribute requirements and risks to registers, facilitate workshops with infrastructure owners, and deliver design-phase estimates for the Discovery gate.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years
- Extensive enterprise backup, recovery and DR design experience at scale
- Hands-on with Dell Networker and Data Domain / PowerProtect (or directly comparable), plus modern alternatives (e.g. Veeam, Cohesity, Rubrik, Commvault) – assessed vendor-neutrally
- Immutable and air-gapped backup and ransomware-resilient design
- DR architecture – replication, failover, and RTO/RPO definition and testing
- Large-scale (multi-PB) data migration planning and execution – phased/wave approaches, non-disruptive cutover, rollback and decommissioning
- Data-centre transition/consolidation experience and awareness of physical space, power and cooling constraints
- Strong risk management, planning and documentation
- confident workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement
Desired Qualifications
- Higher-education or public-sector environments; research-data retention
- Migration tooling at scale (e.g. Datadobi, Komprise, Cirata/WANdisco, or vendor migration utilities)
- Contributing to vendor-neutral procurement specifications
- Dell certifications (Networker, PowerProtect Data Domain)
- Backup-vendor certifications (e.g. Veeam VMCE, Cohesity, Rubrik, Commvault)
- ITIL
- a project method such as PRINCE2, PMP or Agile for migration planning
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