Senior Data Protection Engineer

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries.

Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries.

Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Job Description

Senior Data Protection Engineer

Locations : Remote US

Get To Know The Team :

Senior Data Protection Engineer provides implementation, maintenance, and support services for enterprise data protection.

This includes enterprise backup applications, storage, and tape libraries. Senior Data Protection Engineers are responsible for end-to-end maintenance assessing, assessing change impact, identifying, and resolving issues.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility : Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future : 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work / Life Balance : Flexible Personal / Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing : Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Diversity & Inclusion : Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training : Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks : Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do :

• Uses appropriate methods of escalation to both internal and external resources. Participates in an on-call rotation that will include after-hours, weekends, and some holidays
• Maintains documentation of the backup technology's configuration, contacts, and functionality
• Contributes and maintains common troubleshooting tips in the designated knowledge base
• Keeps current vendor and system data owner's contact information in the designated location
• Maintain documentation surrounding the flow of data between systems
• Planning and scheduling data protection hardware and application upgrades, updates, and capacity additions. This may include coordination with other IT teams, vendors, and users.

Follows department change request processes

• Use of backup technologies monitoring tools to resolve issues that could cause failure to backup data
• Ensure retention periods for application data follow SS&C, customer, and regulatory requirements. Verifies that systems are completing a normally scheduled and approved backup methodology
• Ability to use backup application functionality to create, schedule, and distribute reports. Provide information regarding the backup of data when requested for audits
• Functions as a support resource for problem-solving applications, storage, tape libraries, and client issues related to data protection
• Communicates effectively with system vendors to maintain working relationships and proper systems support. Verifies vendor actions meet the expectations of the SS&C and reviews statements of work (SOW) and quotes for accuracy and appropriateness
• Project management and task coordination with other teams and vendors as required to complete the installation of new data protection technology.

Develops plans for migration, consolidation, or archiving of data from legacy systems where applicable

Mentor, train, and serve as a source of knowledge for Backup Administration tasks - this includes knowledge transfers and mentoring for other team members, clients, server and database administrations and interns

What You Will Bring :

Must be able to perform the professional and technical competencies in at least one of the following data protection applications, required Cohesity & Rubrik;

preferably Commvault, Avamar, or Networker

• Must be able to perform the professional and technical competencies in Data Domain or NAS and tape technologies
• Scripting, API Development, and Automation
• Understanding technical concepts including, but not limited to, databases, networking, hardware, software, interfaces, and operating systems

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! To further explore this opportunity, please apply through our careers page on the corporate website at www.ssctech.com / careers.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.