Backup SME

Cognizant

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Wayzata, MN
Salary: $80,000–$116,000 / yr
Posted: 5 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

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The Backup SME joins the Cognizant Infrastructure Services Practice to design and optimize large scale artificial intelligence infrastructure architectures. This role focuses on building resilient, secure, and performant backup and disaster recovery storage platforms for global enterprise environments within process manufacturing contexts. The Backup SME will administer Commvault and Druva platforms, managing backup policies, storage policies, and retention rules for servers, databases, and cloud workloads. Key responsibilities include managing EMC Data Domain appliances, configuring replication, and performing performance tuning. The position requires deep expertise in EMC storage technologies, capacity planning, and data protection strategies. The candidate must troubleshoot complex storage issues and support disaster recovery planning to ensure business continuity for high availability requirements during artificial intelligence training and inference operations.

Skills

Commvault Druva EMC Data Domain EMC Storage Disaster Recovery Backup and Recovery Cloud Data Protection Microsoft 365 Capacity Planning High Availability Infrastructure Architecture Virtual Machines

What you'll do

Administer and support enterprise Commvault backup infrastructure, including policies, schedules, and retention rules.
Manage Druva Cloud Data Protection for endpoints, Microsoft 365, and cloud workloads.
Manage EMC Data Domain appliances, including replication, retention locks, and deduplication efficiency.
Perform backup and recovery operations for servers, databases, file systems, and virtual machines.
Execute backup optimization, performance tuning, and capacity planning for large-scale data platforms.
Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and the maintenance of recovery documentation and runbooks.
Troubleshoot complex storage and backup issues using systematic analysis and diagnostic tools.
Design and optimize infrastructure architectures for artificial intelligence workloads and process manufacturing environments.

What we're looking for

Demonstrate extensive experience architecting and operating enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery services for large-scale data platforms.
Show deep practical knowledge of storage and backup fundamentals, including capacity planning and data protection strategies.
Bring proven hands-on expertise in designing, implementing, and administering advanced storage solutions, specifically EMC storage technologies.
Display strong proficiency in troubleshooting storage and backup issues using systematic analysis and diagnostic tools.
Apply familiarity with artificial intelligence workloads and their infrastructure needs, including data lifecycle and high availability requirements.
Leverage experience gained within process manufacturing industry environments or similar operationally intensive sectors.
Communicate complex infrastructure risks and options clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Administer and support enterprise Commvault, Druva Cloud Data Protection, and EMC Data Domain platforms.

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