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Job description for Avamar L3 resource

Job Title: Senior Backup Engineer (Avamar L3)

The Senior Backup Engineer (L3) is responsible for the design, administration, and advanced troubleshooting of enterprise backup environments built on Dell Avamar and Data Domain. The role owns complex incident resolution, performance tuning, capacity planning, and drives improvements to meet RPO/RTO and compliance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize Avamar backup infrastructure.
• Manage datasets, schedules, and retention policies for file system, VMware, database, and NAS/NDMP workloads.
• Configure and support Avamar integrations with Data Domain, including DD Boost, MTrees/LSUs, certificates, and replication.
• Lead troubleshooting of complex backup and restore failures, including Avamar client/server, DDOS, and network issues.
• Analyze avtar, avagent, MCS, GSAN, hfscheck, ddrmaint, and Data Domain logs to provide root cause analysis and permanent fixes.
• Monitor backup performance and capacity, identify bottlenecks, and implement tuning.
• Perform capacity planning for Avamar grids and Data Domain, including cleaning, retention optimization, and expansion planning.
• Contribute to backup architecture, migrations, technology refresh, and disaster recovery design.
• Implement and document standards, runbooks, and automation for recurring operational tasks.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5–8+ years in enterprise backup administration, including strong hands-on Avamar and Data Domain experience.
• Deep knowledge of Avamar concepts, including datasets, policies, checkpoints, hfscheck, replication, and MCCLI.
• Knowledge of Data Domain configuration, including MTrees, cleaning, DD Boost, certificates, replication, and capacity management.
• Experience backing up VMware, Windows, Linux/UNIX file systems, Oracle using RMAN, and SQL Server with Avamar plug-ins.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across operating system, network, and storage layers.
• Familiarity with ITIL processes and documentation best practices.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM).
• Exposure to NAS, PowerScale/Isilon, SAN, and virtualized environments at scale.