Backup and Security Consultant

Computacenter
england
1 year ago
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Life on the team


We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Protection Consultant to join our Security & Backup Practice within Computacenter. The role will primarily be based remotely but may involve UK wide travel. 
The successful candidate will report directly to the Practice Leader, joining an already healthy sized team, but due to pipeline we need additional talented individuals.

What you’ll do

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity, with a particular focus on modern data protection solutions from Rubrik, Veeam, Commvault and Veritas.
This customer centric role involves working with our clients and partners to help develop and implement solutions to their data use cases, defining solutions for the classification and protection of business data and systems, and the creation of disaster recovery solutions to ensure effective business continuity for our customer base.

Consult and deliver on implementation, and optimisation of data protection architectures for a variety of applications and platforms such as virtualisation, containers, physical, SaaS, and Cloud Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate data protection capabilities into our solutions and services, contributing to the overall strategy and service development Stay abreast of the latest developments in data protection, data classification, and disaster orchestration technologies, alongside relevant industry legislative impacts Customer facing skills with the ability to propose solutions to improve efficiency and scalability Good presentation and documentation skills

What you’ll need

Strong theoretical and practical knowledge of data protection and disaster recovery solutions such as Rubrik, Veeam, Veritas, and Commvault Knowledge of cloud-fundamentals for Amazon, Microsoft, and Google cloud services Wider knowledge within Networking, Storage, and compute across VMware, Microsoft, and Nutanix virtualisation solutions, plus others Demonstrated experience with SaaS solutions and relevant data protection requirements Edge, Datacenter, and cloud architectural knowledge and use cases relating to Data Strong client facing, communication and interpersonal skills Technical certifications in one or more data protection solutions from Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, and Veritas. (Inclusive alternative vendor certifications would also be beneficial)

Desirable Skills

Containerisation data protection & recovery experience Experience with Object Storage solutions and sizing Experience with Deduplication Appliance solutions and sizing Data Governance, Health, and Hygiene skills

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