Storage & Backup Administrator
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Storage & Backup Administrator managing enterprise storage and backup infra for global engineering firm. Providing support, performance monitoring, and project leadership for critical systems.
Responsibilities:
- Administer enterprise storage and backup infrastructure systems.
- Provide technical support to users (connectivity, performance, troubleshooting, storage, backups, etc.).
- Manage backup clients, schedules, and retention policies.
- Monitor and evaluate storage and backup service performance.
- Coordinate replacement of failed Backup, Storage, and SAN components and ensure service restoration.
- Create and maintain detailed technical and graphical documentation.
- Develop and update tools and scripts to automate and improve storage and backup operations.
- Lead complex projects involving storage solutions in mid-to-large environments.
- Provide on-call support on a rotation basis outside business hours.
- Perform additional duties as required.
Requirements:
- Proven hands-on experience in enterprise storage and backup administration across heterogeneous environments.
- Strong experience with enterprise storage platforms, including: NetApp ONTAP (FAS, vNAS/file/object services, SolidFire); Dell PowerStore or equivalent block storage platforms; CEPH.
- Experience in provisioning, performance troubleshooting, lifecycle maintenance, and incident resolution in production environments.
- Solid knowledge of SAN and storage transport technologies, including Cisco MDS Fiber Channel fabrics.
- Ability to troubleshoot end-to-end connectivity between hosts and storage.
- Strong understanding of storage replication, data protection technologies, and host integration best practices.
- Experience with OS-level storage tuning and performance optimization.
- Extensive experience with backup and data protection platforms such as Dell EMC Avamar, Dell EMC Data Domain, and Veeam Backup & Replication.
- Experience managing backup policies, retention, client onboarding, and recovery processes.
- Familiarity with disk-based and tape-based backup architectures.
- Good understanding of networking fundamentals (Ethernet switching, TCP/IP, routing basics, LACP).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work in structured enterprise environments, following processes and procedures.
- Clear communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and vendors.
- Strong ownership, reliability, and ability to meet deadlines.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours

















