Title:  Private Cloud Engineer - Backup

Requisition ID: 234889

Thanks for your interest in ScotiaTech, Scotiabank's new and innovative Technology hub in Bogota.

Join a purpose driven winning team that promotes creativity and innovation in a fast-paced environment, where we’re always committed to results, in an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.

Purpose

• The Global Technology and Enterprise Platforms (GTEP) Operations & Engineering team is looking for a backup administrator to deploy, operate, troubleshoot, support backup and migration activities in scope of Scotiabank Private Cloud and also public cloud migration project.
• Working with various Global Technology and Enterprise Platforms (GTEP)/ CIO stakeholders, the Scotiabank internal cloud team, under GTEP-Operations & Engineering, will build hybrid cloud products including detailed design, build, operational transition and product lifecycle management across the enterprise. Cloud products follow infrastructure patterns, frameworks and standards from GTEP-EA Architecture. Enabling enterprise wide adoption of innovative hybrid cloud products (like automated Infra/backup/storage services, software defined Data Center etc.) to improve business application agility and competitiveness in a cost-effective manner.

Accountabilities

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Reporting to the Director/Principal Engineer, Cloud Engineering, you will play a critical part as backup administrator to deploy, operate, troubleshoot, support backup/restoration and migration activities in scope of Scotiabank Private Cloud and public cloud migration project.
• You will work with technical and business subject matter experts on this large, technically complex, and moderately risky project to ensure the migrated applications are functional well to meet their business goals.
• When required, non-standard office working hours for scheduled implementations or while on rotational on-project support.
• You will manage and maintain the backup and NAS solution (both on-prem and GCP), assist in troubleshooting, and provide guidance.
• You will provide Level 3 support & vendor escalations for transitioned services.
• You will support the development of technical documentation of configuration and operational procedures for service operations teams (build & runbooks) & technical specifications.
• You will contribute to implementation planning.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be incorporate into in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML and ATF sanctions and conduct risk.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Education

• Must to have:
  • 4 years of overall working experience as a Backup Administrator, technical working experience with backup from the following products: Cohesity and/or Dell EMC Data Domain (backup and replication) and/or NetBackup and/or Veeam, etc.
  • 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience with backup solution running in Public Cloud, like Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience with the architectural and/or deployment and/or operational support of VMware vSphere Hypervisor.
  • 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience with Microsoft Windows Server 2012/16 administration and/or Red Hat Linux administration 7.x.
  • 4 years of hands-on technical working experience with Networking technologies and operational experience.
  • B1+ level of English.
• Soft sklills:
  • Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills to be able to work well with technical peers and business stakeholders at different levels within the organization.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills to be able to collaborate and work closely with external vendors.
  • Ability to analyze complex situations and problems and do the necessary research using multiple sources of information to arrive at innovative solutions.
  • Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction.
  • Good time management and organizational skills to effectively manage high scale project.
• Preferable:
  • Experience with VMware vRealize suite (including vRealize Automation, vRealize Operation Manager, vRealize Log Insight, etc.) and/or VMware Cloud Foundation.
  • Experience with Scripting (VMware PowerCLI, Backup automation, REST API scripting, PowerShell & Python).
  • Experience with storage from the following products: NetApp NAS and/or Dell EMC and/or Hyper Converged Virtual SAN.
  • Previous Banking/FI experience.

Working Conditions

Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence. 

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Location(s): Bogotá or Home-Office

ScotiaTech is a business unit within ScotiaGBS, a Scotiabank Group company located in Bogota, Colombia. The ScotiaTech hub was created to support different technology systems and processes of the Bank. We offer an inclusive, positive work environment, and competitive benefits.

At ScotiaTech, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at ScotiaTech; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

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