Enterprise Storage and Backup Administrator

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