Full Time | Valencia, Spain / Brindisi, Italy / Nearshore (CET +/- 2 hours)
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Location: Valencia, Spain / Brindisi, Italy / Nearshore (CET +/- 2 hours)
Teleworking option: Yes
Scope of Work/Duties:
- Administer the Storage and Backup Infrastructures’ Systems of the organisation.
- 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.
The resource MUST have the following skills and experience:
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)
The resource SHOULD have the following skills and experience:
- 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.
Soft skills:
- Customer facing experience and oral communication skills
- Ability to write documentation & reports
- Creativity/ ability to find innovative solutions
- Willingness to learn on the job
- Conflict management & cooperation
Desirable certifications:
- EMC Avamar, Data Domain or ECS
- DELL/EMC, Netapp storage systems
- CISCO MDS switches
- ITIL
Teleworking Option:
- Yes, up to 3 days per week for resources on-site in Valencia, Spain or Brindisi, Italy
