Enterprise Storage & Backup Administrator
Location: Remote (Central European Timezone ±2 hours) Start date: Immediate Languages: English (fluent) Industry: International Organizations, Enterprise IT Infrastructure, Storage & Backup
About the Company 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
