Enterprise Storage & Backup Administrator
Pragmatike is recruiting an Enterprise Storage & Backup Administrator on behalf of a prestigious international organization operating at a global scale. This organization manages critical infrastructure supporting worldwide initiatives, with a strong commitment to sustainability, diversity, and operational excellence. Their IT ecosystem spans complex, heterogeneous environments, delivering highly reliable storage and backup services across multiple regions and stakeholders.
Your Responsibilities
- Administer the ICC’s Storage and Backup Infrastructures’ Systems
- Provide technical support for the ICC storage and backup infrastructures’ users (Connectivity, performance, troubleshooting, storage, backups, etc.)
- Manage the backup clients, schedules and retentions
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of storage and backup services
- Coordinate the replacement of failed Backup, Storage & SAN components, and service restoration
- Create and maintain detailed technical and graphical documentation as needed
- Develop/update tools and scripts to improve and automate the administration of the Storage and Enterprise Backup operations
- Lead complex projects involving storage solutions and products for mid-large environments
- Provide on-call rotation-based support outside of business hours
- Perform other duties as required
Why This Role Will Pivot Your Career
- You’ll operate infrastructure that actually matters — at global scale
- You’ll work on complex, non-trivial systems (not just maintain them)
- You’ll gain exposure across storage, backup, networking, and reliability
- You’ll have room to automate, improve, and influence how things are built
- Strong potential for long-term engagement
What You Bring
The consultant must demonstrate proven hands-on experience in enterprise storage and backup administration across heterogeneous environments, specifically including:
Enterprise Storage Platforms
- Demonstrable administration and troubleshooting experience with multi-vendor enterprise storage arrays, with emphasis on:
- NetApp ONTAP environments (FAS, vNAS/file/object services, SolidFire)
- Dell PowerStore or equivalent block storage platforms
- CEPH
- Experience performing provisioning, performance troubleshooting, lifecycle maintenance, and incident resolution in production environments
SAN & Storage Transport Technologies
- Strong working knowledge of storage networking concepts and technologies
- Hands-on administration of Cisco MDS Fiber Channel fabrics
- Ability to troubleshoot end-to-end connectivity issues between hosts and storage
Replication & Host Integration
- Solid technical understanding of:
- Storage replication and data protection technologies
- Host integration and best practices
- OS-specific storage tuning and performance considerations
Backup & Data Protection Platforms
- Extensive experience installing, configuring, and administering enterprise backup platforms, including Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC Data Domain and Veeam backup and replication.
- Experience managing policies, retention, client onboarding, and recovery workflows
- Working familiarity with disk-based and tape-based backup architectures
Networking Fundamentals
- Practical understanding of enterprise networking fundamentals relevant to storage operations, including Ethernet switching concepts, TCP/IP stack behavior, Routing basics and Link aggregation (LACP)
Nice to Have
- Hands-on experience developing scripts or automation workflows using PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible or similar automation frameworks
- Experience with Microsoft 365 backup solutions such as AvePoint and Spanning
- Exposure to Software Defined Storage (SDS) platforms
- Working knowledge of Linux administration and Microsoft Windows Server environments
- Familiarity with virtualization platforms such as VMware
