technical analyst iv.

Our client, is seeking a deeply experienced Technical Analyst IV — Data Protection & Infrastructure Specialist to join their Enterprise Infrastructure and Storage Services division.

In this senior technical role, you will take ownership of the assessment, onboarding, capacity management, and regulatory compliance validation for the organization's enterprise-scale backup ecosystems. You will evaluate existing business requirement documents, partner directly with application owners across diverse business lines, and translate those metrics into rock-solid technical configurations. A key focus of this role is ensuring that backup infrastructure stringently adheres to global financial immutability and data preservation requirements, while simultaneously managing multi-tenant storage capacity and deploying next-generation storage architectures.

Duration: 12-Month Contract (Possibility of extension and permanent conversion based on performance and business needs)

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (Currently 2 days per week on-site at the corporate office, with a planned transition to up to 4 days in-office in the coming months. Anchor days are Tuesdays and Thursdays).

Advantages
Tier-1 Financial Scale: Work within a highly regulated, high-availability infrastructure environment protecting massive datasets for global operations.

Long-Term Engagement: Secure a stable, foundational 12-month assignment with pathways for long-term extension or permanent organizational placement.

Compliance & Security Leadership: Act as the strategic Subject Matter Expert (SME) governing data immutability—one of the most critical regulatory requirements in modern banking.

Data-Informed Autonomy: Build custom dashboards and automated scripts to forecast licensing, analyze storage performance, and drive capacity management decisions.

Responsibilities
Client Onboarding & Immutability Governance
Application Scope Analysis: Extract, analyze, and validate information from business requirement documents (BRDs) to define data protection scopes and verify data accuracy.

Stakeholder Onboarding: Act as the primary technical liaison to onboard application teams and corporate lines of business onto centralized enterprise backup platforms.

Immutability Enforcement: Ensure all application backups strictly comply with legal and financial immutability requirements. Actively monitor, audit, and generate compliance scorecards on data preservation health.

Runbook & Dashboard Architecture: Create, maintain, and update technical runbooks, operational dashboards, and security scorecards tracking data protection metrics.

Capacity Management, Infrastructure & Automation
Storage Optimization: Audit active backup footprints, clean up deprecated data stores, and systematically manage storage pools to preserve enterprise capacity.

Metrics Correlation & Forecasting: Analyze licensing, storage pools, and throughput metrics across disparate tools to create predictive performance forecasts and capacity dashboards.

Infrastructure Deployment: Programmatically provision and deploy physical or virtual storage infrastructure components as required by incoming business demands.

Automation and Efficiency: Build and execute automated configurations and scripts to drive continuous process improvements and operational efficiency across the infrastructure.

Qualifications
Experience: 5+ years of progressive professional experience operating as a Senior Technical Analyst, Systems Administrator, or Infrastructure Engineer inside major corporate environments.

Backup Platforms Mastery: 5+ years of hands-on experience administering and supporting enterprise data protection platforms, specifically including Data Domain, NetBackup, Commvault, or TSM/Spectrum Protect.

Data Domain Infrastructure Depth: 5+ years of specific engineering or architectural configuration experience handling Data Domain infrastructure deployments.

Technical Requirement Synthesis: 5+ years of experience meticulously evaluating high-level business requirement documents and translating them cleanly into technical storage specifications.

Capacity Analytics & Data Skills: 5+ years of experience governing infrastructure capacity management (building health reports, measuring storage/licensing performance, and correlating metrics to generate long-term forecasts).

Automation Programming Stack: 3 to 4 years of functional experience writing infrastructure automation scripts or workflows using tools like Ansible, PowerShell, or similar scripting utilities.

Education: University degree or college diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent practical work experience.

Soft Skills: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Strong analytical and negotiation capabilities, with a proven track record of managing and aligning expectations with diverse or challenging technical stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have Skills & Assets
Prior professional experience operating within the Financial Services or Banking industry.

Hands-on experience working inside Agile framework delivery squads.

Working operational knowledge of ServiceNow for enterprise change, incident, and asset request management.

Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (data modeling, pivot tables, and visualization macros).

Summary
If you are a battle-tested Senior Technical Analyst who pairs a deep, expert-level mastery of enterprise backup ecosystems (Data Domain, NetBackup) with strong capacity forecasting analytics and an automation-first mindset, this 12-month hybrid contract is tailored for your career. Bring your technical guidance, compliance focus, and stakeholder management skills to a world-class technology group today!

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