Job Title:
Senior Backup & Storage Engineer
Duration:
Permanent
Location:
Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Onsite)
Role Overview:
- We are actively looking for a motivated Senior Backup & Storage Engineer who will be responsible for implementing and managing enterprise-level storage and backup systems across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
- This role ensures data integrity, availability, and recoverability while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enable robust disaster recovery and resilience strategies.
Key Accountabilities:
- Managing the hardware:
- Analyze and propose a configuration to deploy.
- Architecture and Reference Configuration definition.
- CMDB maintenance.
- Decommissioning: data migration in coordination with other teams, logical disk shredding, and configuration cleaning.
- Provisioning and Maintenance of the services:
- Set up and maintain Storage devices’ definitions and policies, C2 - Restricted use.
- Set up and maintain the Backup tool and the corresponding application’s module, definitions, and policies.
- Storage Area Network related: zoning and port configurations.
- Drive and enforce standards-based deployments.
- Perform periodic analysis of vulnerabilities available with the corresponding risk and impact assessment, in conjunction with the providers, to ensure a stable and safe setup. Reporting based on templates is part of the analysis.
- In coordination with the providers, install updates and patches to hardware and software. Perform routine and preventive maintenance tasks.
- Daily Activities:
- Monitoring of the Backup and Storage infrastructures.
- Incident follow-up and resolution (ServiceNow).
- After major system events, a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) has to be presented, including the preventive measures to take to limit possible reoccurrence.
- Service requests follow-up and resolution (ServiceNow).
- Generate reports on the overall status of the services’ infrastructure.
- Cooperate with customers and providers through ticketing and email systems to solve inter-team or inter-provider problems.
- You are the Main operational role for the provision of the operational services provided by a specific Service Module.
- You are responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of the data center environment hardware and software, and related infrastructure.
- Participate in technical research and development to enable continual innovation within the infrastructure.
- Participation in projects warrants a smooth transition of projects into daily operations by performing activities linked to operations within the project life cycle.
Essential
Skills:
- Commvault.
- HYCU.
- SAN (Brocade).
- Storage (Hitachi) infrastructure knowledge.
- PureStorage.
- NetApp NAS storage arrays (FASxxxx, AFFxxx) with SnapMirror.
- DELL PowerScale (Isilon).
- NetApp StorageGrid S3 Object Storage.
- Cloudian S3 Object Storage.
Preferred
Skills:
- Scripting knowledge of Perl or Python.
- Ansible knowledge.
- Terraform.