Storage & Backup Engineer
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PragmatikeIT infrastructure
Fully remote within Southern & Eastern EuropeFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- Professional proficiency in English required; Spanish is a plus
- Experience
- Minimum 8+ years of relevant IT work experience
- Required Skills
- Python
Requirements
- Minimum 8+ years of relevant IT experience managing and configuring enterprise storage and backup environments in complex heterogeneous environments.
- Hands-on administration and troubleshooting experience with block and file storage systems across multiple vendor platforms, such as NetApp, Dell PowerStore, and Dell ECS.
- Knowledge of enterprise backup systems, such as Dell Avamar, PPDM, Data Domain, and Veeam B&R.
- Expert-level troubleshooting and problem resolution for storage and backup infrastructures.
- Knowledge of Cisco or Brocade fabric switches, VSANs, WWPNs, NPIV, multipathing, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI.
- Understanding of data protection, disaster recovery, and storage and backup management practices.
- Knowledge of networking technologies.
- Working experience with shell scripting and automation tools such as Python, Ansible, or Terraform.
- Knowledge of ITIL service management methodology.
- Professional proficiency in English; Spanish is a plus.
- Ability to work under pressure with minimum supervision and a customer-centric approach to delivery and problem solving.
- Availability for on-call duties, one week per month, and planned maintenance when required.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement enterprise storage and backup architectures aligned with business, availability, recovery, capacity, and security requirements.
- Administer storage arrays, SAN fabrics, and backup platforms, including provisioning, host integration, backup clients, schedules, retention policies, and replication.
- Plan and execute installations, upgrades, migrations, capacity expansions, and proof-of-concept deployments, including testing and rollback procedures.
- Monitor system health, performance, capacity, and backup success; resolve bottlenecks and implement improvements.
- Resolve incidents, problems, and service requests; provide Tier 3 support, lead root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Perform restores and recovery tests, and support disaster-recovery exercises.
- Apply security controls, hardening standards, and approved configuration changes in accordance with policies and change-management procedures.
- Develop tools and scripts to automate provisioning, monitoring, reporting, and routine operations.
- Deliver storage and backup projects, including technical assessments, business cases, proposals, and operational handover.
- Maintain technical designs, configuration records, runbooks, and recovery procedures; participate in on-call duties and planned maintenance.
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