Senior Storage & Backup Engineering Lead

1 month ago
Full-time
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure
Qualysoft

Qualysoft

Founded in 1999 in Vienna, Qualysoft Group is an independent IT consulting and services company that offers tailored IT solutions to international customers. With over 500 specialists in Central and Eastern Europe, Qualysoft ensures the success of ever...

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 1999

Description

  • Lead the deployment, management, and optimisation of SAN and NAS storage environments.
  • Oversee backup solutions to ensure reliable, secure, and compliant data protection.
  • Drive capacity planning, forecasting, and performance tuning activities for storage and backup systems.
  • Develop and maintain disaster recovery and restoration procedures and conduct regular recovery simulations and backup testing.
  • Manage replication, snapshot policies, multipath configuration, zoning, masking, and recovery validation processes.
  • Lead troubleshooting and incident response for storage- and backup-related issues and support audit activities with timely remediation.
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation of architectures, operational procedures, and SLA/service review outputs.
  • Collaborate with server, database, network, and application teams to ensure seamless data availability and restore/throughput planning.
  • Manage vendor relationships and coordinate with third-party support providers, including secure decommissioning of end-of-life storage hardware.
  • Mentor and guide L2 Support Analysts and contribute to continuous improvement and optimisation initiatives.

Requirements

  • Advanced knowledge of SAN and NAS architectures (examples: HPE, Dell EMC, NetApp, VMware vSAN, Cisco HyperFlex or similar).
  • Strong understanding of fabric management (examples: Cisco, Brocade) and experience with provisioning, multipath configuration, zoning, and masking.
  • Expertise in replication technologies, snapshot management, recovery testing, and disaster recovery simulations.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise backup platforms (example: Rubrik or comparable solutions) including application-consistent backups.
  • Proven experience in data migration, lifecycle management, and secure decommissioning of storage hardware.
  • Solid understanding of storage security and access control principles and compliance/data retention requirements.
  • Capacity planning, cost optimisation, and forecasting skills for storage and backup environments.
  • Experience collaborating with infrastructure and database teams on throughput and restore planning.
  • Ability to mentor and develop junior team members and coordinate with vendors/third-party support providers.

Benefits

  • Remote-first / remote work arrangement (role listed as Remote).
  • Continuous learning opportunities and exposure to the latest technologies.
  • Supportive, transparent team culture that values new ideas and personal development.
  • Stable employer background within an established international IT consulting group (Qualysoft Group).

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