Storage & Backup Engineer
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JobgetherIT infrastructure
Based in United KingdomFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- Professional proficiency in English; Spanish is an advantage.
- Experience
- At least 8 years of relevant IT experience
- Required Skills
- PythonAnsible
Requirements
- At least 8 years of relevant IT experience managing, configuring, and supporting enterprise storage and backup environments in complex, heterogeneous infrastructures.
- Extensive experience administering and troubleshooting block and file storage systems across multiple vendors, such as NetApp, Dell PowerStore, and Dell ECS.
- Strong expertise in enterprise backup platforms, including Dell Avamar, PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM), Data Domain, and Veeam Backup & Replication, or comparable solutions.
- Strong knowledge of storage networking technologies, including Cisco and Brocade fabric switches, VSANs, WWPNs, NPIV, multipathing, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI.
- Solid understanding of data protection, backup management, disaster recovery, and infrastructure resilience best practices.
- Good knowledge of networking technologies.
- Practical experience with shell scripting and automation tools such as Python, Ansible, or Terraform.
- Advanced troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across storage and backup infrastructures.
- Good understanding of ITIL service management methodologies.
- Professional proficiency in English; Spanish is an advantage.
- Experience with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) or Software-Defined Storage solutions is a nice-to-have.
- Familiarity with AWS S3 or Azure Blob Storage and virtualization technologies such as VMware or Hyper-V is a nice-to-have.
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy enterprise storage and backup architectures aligned with business requirements, availability targets, recovery objectives, capacity needs, and security standards.
- Manage storage arrays, SAN fabrics, and backup platforms, including provisioning, host integration, backup configuration, scheduling, retention policies, and replication.
- Plan and execute installations, upgrades, migrations, capacity expansions, and proof-of-concept deployments, including testing, validation, and rollback procedures.
- Monitor system health, performance, capacity, and backup success rates; identify bottlenecks and implement improvements.
- Resolve incidents, problems, and service requests; provide Tier 3 support, lead root-cause analyses, and implement corrective and preventive measures.
- Perform data restoration and recovery tests, participate in disaster recovery exercises, and validate data protection and recovery capabilities.
- Apply infrastructure security controls and hardening standards in accordance with established policies and change-management procedures.
- Develop scripts and tools to automate provisioning, monitoring, reporting, and routine storage and backup operations.
- Deliver infrastructure projects, coordinate with vendors and internal teams, and maintain architecture designs, operational runbooks, and recovery procedures.
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