Staff Storage and Backup Engineer

Role Overview: You will be responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and operations of enterprise storage and backup systems to ensure data availability, integrity, security, and disaster recovery across the organization. Your deep technical expertise, leadership, and strategic vision are key to evolving the infrastructure. This position reports to the Sr. Manager, Enterprise Storage and Backup. Key Responsibilities: - Architect and manage enterprise-grade storage solutions primarily based on NetApp platforms (AFF, FAS, ONTAP) to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability across data centers - Own and oversee the backup infrastructure, including Commvault (v11.x), to ensure consistent backup, recovery, archival, and DR strategy alignment with business needs - Lead capacity planning and performance tuning initiatives for both storage and backup environments across global sites, ensuring proactive resource utilization and cost optimization - Design and implement data protection policies including snapshots, replication (SnapMirror/SnapVault), NDMP, IntelliSnap, and cloud-integrated backups - Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and InfoSec teams to support ongoing projects, resolve issues, and integrate storage/backup requirements - Evaluate and implement automation tools for storage provisioning, reporting, and backup job orchestration using scripting or third-party tools (Ansible, REST API, etc.) - Lead incident/problem/change management processes, including root cause analysis and post-incident reviews related to storage and backup systems - Lead storage and backup refresh, migration, and DR exercises, ensuring minimal impact to business operations during execution - Maintain documentation Architecture diagrams, inventory, SOPs, and knowledge articles for storage and backup systems - Stay current with industry trends in storage, backup, and cloud technologies; proactively propose enhancements to improve efficiency or resilience Qualifications Required: - Bachelor's in Computer Science or Engineering or related field or equivalent - 12+ years experience in Windows-based enterprise environments - Extensive experience in Storage & Backup enterprise environments - Background in cloud and on-premises infrastructure management - Experience with system automation, security, and compliance best practices - NetApp ONTAP Certification will be an advantage - No travel required,