Selecting the Right Storage & Backup Administrators
Hiring is one of the toughest challenges any company can face, either large enterprises or new startups. There is a great deal of know-how kind of experience when hiring a Storage & Backup Administrator, not all companies have the right processes that can warrant best hires.
At SupportFinity, we streamlined our processes and in-house standards to make sure of having one of the top world-class hiring processes. The magic mix of skills ingredients is what separates a great hire from a not-so-good one. We came to this conclusion through consulting top technical and HR experts in addition to our years of work and exposure with most sophisticated projects across almost all tech verticals and areas of expertise. So you get one of the best recruitment processes to hire a Storage & Backup Administrator.
As we have created and crafted a unique method of teams’ customization, we have also perfected our signature model of matching the right skills for our customers to hire either one Storage & Backup Administrator or a team of Storage & Backup Administrators. We have a long lasting belief in the power of data analytics in creating unmatchable results, thus, we apply our analytical models on our hiring process same as we do in our business model.
Storage & Backup Administrator Job Description Template
Storage & Backup Administrator
AKA: Storage and Backup Engineer
The Storage & Backup Administrator manages the disk and tape systems within an organization. The Storage & Backup Administrator develops a storage management program and providing for routine backups.
- The Storage & Backup Administrator provides capacity planning, performance analysis, assists with disaster recovery plan documentation updates and testing.
- The Storage & Backup Administrator leads efforts towards storage consolidation and identifies storage growth, manage configurations of storage media and storage management software.
- The Storage & Backup Administrator provides technical expertise, guidance and strategic recommendations to develop a roadmap that ensures that the current and planned technical Storage & Backup solutions are compatible with the company's business needs and strategic objectives.
- The Storage & Backup Administrator develops, implements and oversees policies and procedures to ensure consistent storage provisioning, uptime, regulatory compliance and data protection.
- Manages a Storage and Backup environment with business-critical uptime which will include after hours and weekend work as necessary.
- Supporting the design, operation, workflow and issue resolution for the storage and backup infrastructure.
- Manages and provides current disk/tape storage usage statistics, provides future projected growth estimates.
- The Storage & Backup Administrator provides weekly status reports on individual projects and tasks.
- Familiar with all Storage systems and Backup environments.
- Experience working with Data Domain.
- Extensive experience in design and documentation of backup/restore strategies via enterprise class backup solutions .
- Should have handled major DR drills.
- Should be proficient on how to restore and recover TSM Servers.
- Should be able to independently implement DRM and take part in DR tests.
- Knowledge on IBM, Quantum Tape libraries.
- Troubleshooting of the tape library issues.VEndor coordination in case of any Software/Hardware issues.
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This part mainly measures the logical, numerical and analytical aptitude of each candidate, top ones are the only ones we select for next stages.
We have a set of interview tests that measure the agreeability levels of each candidate for
Storage & Backup Administrator, we do so as we believe that likability of any person starts from the ability
to achieve high levels of agreeability without compromising critical thinking.
We also measure the creativity side of the Storage & Backup Administrator you look for, where we see when and how each
candidate can apply out-of-the-box and innovative ways of fixing problems or creating new solutions.
Some people can do well when working on their own, some others cannot!
Knowing this matters a lot when hiring a Storage & Backup Administrator with regard to the team size needed.
Remote work needs a special level of team work skills, so we make sure that your Storage & Backup Administrator can adapt and work well with your team
and be quickly part of it if needed.
We care about hiring someone who can deliver, create and perform the way you expect
with passion and enthusiasm.
We assess our people’s technical abilities on the merits of achievements more
than anything else.
Hiring the right Storage & Backup Administrator is an uneasy decision, we consider
measing the actual technical skills of each candidate.
Having a great resume
is just the start for us, we select candidates know what they say
they know!
We conduct advanced technical tests to make sure we cover the needed knowledge your
Storage & Backup Administrator needs to have to excel for your business.
We weigh academic qualifications as well, we also request our full time employees to submit their education evidence as a major hiring rule to follow. We believe having the right academic qualifications can make a great difference, especially in advanced science based areas like electronic design, engineering planning...etc.
One important metric for us is the ability of your Storage & Backup Administrator to learn new skills, so we make sure that we select people who are only dynamic and willing to learn new ones.
The Best Choice is SupportFinity
We crafted our model very carefully to deliver best value for our clients, hiring first-class freelancers and full-time experts can never be easier. Our model is backed by a proprietary advanced AI and data analytics, thus we are ahead of everyone:
SupportFinity | Freelancing toptal, upwork & others   & Others | Outsourcing accenture & others  & Others | SupportFinity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Instant & Fair | Moderate to High | High | Instant & Fair |
| Quality | Very High | Average -> Acceptable | Poor -> Average | Very High |
| Commitment | Very High/No Risk | Poor/Risky | Moderate/Less Risk | Very High/No Risk |
| Consistency | Very High | Poor | Average -> Acceptable | Very High |
| Time to Start | Shortest | Long | Very Long | Shortest |
| Effort to Start | No Effort (All Online) | High | Very High | No Effort (All Online) |
| Customize Teams | Amazingly Doable | Not Available | Limited | Amazingly Doable |
| Engagement Period | Always Flexible | Usually short | Usually Long | Always Flexible |
| IP Protection | Very High | Loose | Less Loose | Very High |
| Ease of Use | Very Easy | Difficult | Very Difficult | Very Easy |
| Contracting | Very Easy | Complex | Very Complex | Very Easy |
| Tax & Compliance | No Effort Compliance | Exhausting | Complex | No Effort Compliance |
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is SupportFinity?
SupportFinity is a Silicon Valley curated service provider specialized in advanced technology services covering multiple industries, we provide these services through our SupportFinity Talents™ community; it’s an exclusive WW community of thousands of pre-vetted Employees, freelancers and agencies’ experts from more than 90 countries worldwide on almost all areas of technology.
We provide these rich services through a proprietary patented* model where our clients can customize teams of any size, from one freelancer up to as many experts as needed at any level of complexity, then know the price and match potential immediately without any human intervention.
Our analytical and Artificial Intelligence algorithms empower our clients to access the largest skills database in the world, get immediate pricing and immediate matching.
Starting the work with teams can take as less than 24 hours in many cases.
What types of Services SupportFinity Provides?
SupportFinity offers a broad range of technology services on almost all industries. We work with various business sizes, from small startups to large WW enterprises
We offer the following professional services:
-Design
-Development
-Testing
-Optimization
-Support
-Implementation
-Administration
-Compliance
Among a range of verticals:
-AI & Data Science
-IoT & Connected Devices
-Cloud Computing
-Enterprise Technology
-DevOps
-Security
-Web & Mobile Development
-Graphics & Media Design
-Electronics Engineering
How can I hire teams?
It is very easy, you can build your own team just in 5 clicks or browse already customized teams.
To build your own team:
Just start with one of any job titles you need then follow the arrows till you get the total price based on your choices. If you like the price, just click on Request button which will trigger a request to us and a dedicated Client Success Manager will contact you immediately to verify your request and start the hiring process with the candidates you like most.
You can start building your team here
To browse an already customized team:
We have multiple categories of teams that you can browse, our current teams catalog is posted in our landing page here
How SupportFinity guarantees quality of service?
In addition to our proprietary model that makes it always simple, clear and easy for our clients to customize teams and know the prices without the need to negotiate with any sales personal, we follow additional standards to ensure a top world class service to our clients:
⦁ We vet our People on multiple aspects to make sure that our clients only get first class talents through our platform.
⦁ We offer one week trial period for our clients (when hiring one or two candidates), with full money back guarantee.
⦁ Our clients get weekly updates from their teams of every progress been made to ensure complete visibility and progress control.
⦁ When working with freelancers, payments are always held with SupportFinity, so you only pay when you receive the value you expect.
⦁ SupportFinity SWAT team is a backline technical team of various and deep experience, this team overlooks the progress of ongoing projects and other teams to provide assistance and advice whenever needed at no cost to make sure that our clients are getting the right level of service.
⦁ In addition to all that, we have our internal collaboration tools that make it always easier to communicate ideas and get guidance for all our technical community members.
