Backup/Storage Administrator

Job Details

Position: Backup/Storage Administrator – L2
Location: Dubai
Experience Required: 5+ Years
Notice Period: 30 Days
Budget: Approx.: 13,000 AED

The Backup/Storage Administrator – L2 will primarily manage and administer daily operations for a range of storage and backup technologies, including EMC, NetApp, HP, IBM, Oracle, Networker, Cohesity, Veeam, Commvault, and NetBackup. This role requires ongoing architectural and design improvements to ensure optimized storage and backup infrastructure performance, addressing the needs of critical business applications and servers.

Minimum Qualifications
·     Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or an equivalent professional qualification.
·     Experience: Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience managing storage and backup infrastructures, including experience with EMC, HP, NetApp, IBM SAN systems, DELL, and VxRail appliances.

Knowledge & Skills
·     Expertise in backup technologies (Networker, Cohesity, Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, and tape libraries).
·     Proficient in maintenance of SAN storage hardware, including HP MSA, HP 3PAR, HP Primera, Dell PowerMax, EMC Unity, PowerStore, IBM SAN
·     Storages, Data Domain, NetApp, and Oracle storage systems.
·     Knowledge of hardware maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities
·     Storage Management: Administer SAN FC switches and zoning, manage storage snapshots and replication, monitor and optimize IO performance, and maintain comprehensive records for storage and FC systems.
·     Backup Management: Ensure daily backup integrity, manage tape libraries, support annual DR testing, update DR Runbooks, and perform incident troubleshooting as necessary.
·     Optimization and Scalability: Plan proactively for storage and backup scalability, perform capacity planning, ensure system performance, and implement security policies.
·     Documentation: Maintain accurate records, configuration details, troubleshooting procedures, and service history for all storage and backup hardware and software.
·     Communication & Stakeholder Management
·     This role involves regular interaction with internal teams, external stakeholders, hardware/software representatives, and daily reporting to the Team Leader regarding operational issues and incident management.

Operating Environment
·     This is a 24x7x365 role supporting critical production operations.
·     Candidates must be available on-call outside standard office hours to respond to emergencies.

Preferred Skills
·     Experience in both storage and backup areas, with a proactive approach to system performance and capacity planning.

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Interested candidates who matches the exact JD criteria can share your updated resume to athira.vinod@triacitsolutions.com