We are seeking a Dell Networking Subject Matter Expert with strong experience in Backup and Disaster Recovery to support a short-term engagement with a leading energy provider.

Location: Remote

Client: Leading Energy Provider

Start Date: ASAP (based on candidate availability)

Key Responsibilities:

• Configuration: Conduct a full review of NetWorker configuration, including backup job setup.
• Sizing: Analyze backup storage space, compute resources (NetWorker server, NMC, storage nodes, vProxies), client resources, and network performance.
• Policies & Workflows: Review client configuration, backup groups, policies, schedules, retention, datasets, and bootstrap backups.
• Resilience & DR: Assess high availability, single points of failure, secondary backup copies, and redundancy for disaster recovery scenarios.
• Performance: Analyze backup job types and performance metrics.
• Security:
• Ensure backup immutability and encryption.
• Harden product security (authentication, logging, auditing, port access).
• Lifecycle Management: Verify patch levels and product upgrade compatibility (Servers, Clients, Data Domain).
• Operations: Review current monitoring, reporting, notifications, and deduplication rates.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Dell NetWorker SME.
• Hands-on experience with Backup & Disaster Recovery in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of configuration, sizing, DR planning, performance tuning, and security hardening.
• Ability to work independently and deliver in a short-term remote engagement.