Data Archiving Administrator

Discovery – Technology Services

Data Archiving Administrator

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

Key Purpose

Responsible for Data Archiving administration for O365 Mail, OneDrive, Project Server/Online, SharePoint Server/Online and SQL/Online support, monitoring and administration management systems, including documentation of standards, business requirements, operational guidelines, access controls, backup and recovery. Troubleshooting and resolving incidents and complex problems related to this environment.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Ensuring Archiving infrastructure and retention standards are maintained for business serviceability
• Resolving incident / request assigned to team within the specified SLA
• Investigating, troubleshooting and resolving of archiving data recovery issues
• Logging of Changes, representing at Change management forum and implementing
• Minor version upgrades of archiving software and hardware code
• Regular patch management and commissioning of new archiving clients
• Drafting and maintaining of standard operating procedures (SOP’s) for the Archiving environment
• Exporting, uploading and compiling of license capacity reports  

Technical skills

• Change Management. Release Management.
• Veritas Enterprise Vault Administration
• Project Administration
• MS Cluster technologies
• Governance & Compliance
• Product & Integration Support
• Active Directory & Azure AD
• Familiar with business organization and services.
• Accuracy
• Time Management
• Prioritization
• Technical report writing

Education and Experience

Essential:

• Matric
• Veritas Enterprise Vault certification
• Cloud Archiving Technologies certification
• 3 years working experience in an IT environment
• 2+ years Data Archiving support
• 2+ years Microsoft infrastructure support

Advantageous:

• MCSA – SharePoint Administration – Knowledgeable  
• MCP O365/ Archiving - advantageous
• Microsoft 365 Certification - advantageous
• Any archiving tools would be beneficial eg EV, Mimecast
• Sound Understanding of Veritas Enterprise Vault   

Employment Equity 

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   
                             
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.