Backup, DR & Migration Consultant

Job Title: Backup, DR & Migration Consultant Experience: 5+ years Location:Pune, Maharashtra, India Job Type: Contract/Freelance Role purpose Assess and design a resilient, vendor-neutral backup, catalogue and DR capability independent of the incumbent Dell Networker/Data Domain, and define the migration and transition approach for a safe, phased move of a multi-petabyte estate within the fixed vendor-support deadline and the client's data-centre space constraints. Requirements Key responsibilities Assess current backup/recovery and DR Networker configuration and catalogues, Data Domain capacity/dedupe and retention, success/failure rates, replication topology and RTO/RPO. Design a vendor-neutral target backup & DR capability independent of Data Domain/Networker, incorporating immutable/air-gapped copies and ransomware resilience. Define RTO/RPO targets per workload with client owners; design the DR replication and test approach. Develop the migration & transition strategy phased, wave-based, respecting data-centre space, power and cooling constraints; sequencing by criticality; non-disruptive cutover; pilot validation; rollback; and legacy decommissioning once each wave is verified. Contribute backup, DR and migration requirements and risks to the registers; facilitate workshops with the backup/DR owner, infrastructure and service owners. Contribute to the costed design-phase estimate and roadmap for the Discovery gate. Deliverables owned Current-state assessment for WS3 and WS5. Backup/DR and migration content of the Requirements Register and Risk Register. Target backup & DR design and the migration strategy & roadmap design phase. Input to the Discovery Report and the design-phase estimate & plan. Essential skills & experience Extensive enterprise backup, recovery and DR design experience at scale. Hands-on with Dell Networker and Data Domain / PowerProtect (or directly comparable), plus modern alternatives (e.g. Veeam, Cohesity, Rubrik, Commvault) assessed vendor-neutrally. Immutable and air-gapped backup and ransomware-resilient design. DR architecture replication, failover, and RTO/RPO definition and testing. Large-scale (multi-PB) data migration planning and execution phased/wave approaches, non-disruptive cutover, rollback and decommissioning. Data-centre transition/consolidation experience and awareness of physical space, power and cooling constraints. Strong risk management, planning and documentation; confident workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement. Desirable Higher-education or public-sector environments; research-data retention. Migration tooling at scale (e.g. Datadobi, Komprise, Cirata/WANdisco, or vendor migration utilities). Contributing to vendor-neutral procurement specifications. Certifications (desirable) Dell certifications (Networker, PowerProtect Data Domain). Backup-vendor certifications (e.g. Veeam VMCE, Cohesity, Rubrik, Commvault). ITIL; a project method such as PRINCE2, PMP or Agile for migration planning. Behaviours Methodical and risk-aware, with a safety-first approach to migration and cutover. Vendor-neutral; clear communicator and strong on-site collaborator. .