Job Purpose
The Storage & Backup Administrator is responsible for the administration, optimization, security, availability, and lifecycle management of enterprise storage and backup infrastructures across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The role ensures business continuity through effective backup, recovery, disaster recovery (DR), capacity management, and storage performance optimization while supporting mission-critical applications and enterprise workloads.
Roles & Responsibilities
Storage Infrastructure Administration- Install, configure, and manage cloud storage, enterprise storage platforms including SAN, NAS, Object Storage, and Software-Defined Storage solutions.
- Provision and manage storage resources for servers, virtualization platforms, databases, and containerized environments.
- Administer Fibre Channel, iSCSI, & NVMe storage infrastructure.
- Perform storage allocation, zoning, LUN masking, and capacity planning activities.
- Ensure optimal storage performance, availability, and scalability.
Enterprise Backup Administration- Manage enterprise backup and recovery solutions across physical, virtual, cloud, and containerized workloads.
- Configure and maintain backup schedules, retention policies, and compliance requirements.
- Monitor backup jobs and ensure successful completion within defined SLAs.
- Perform backup validation and restoration testing activities.
- Support business-critical application backup requirements.
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity- Design, implement, and maintain disaster recovery solutions.
- Conduct periodic DR drills and recovery testing exercises.
- Ensure adherence to Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) commitments.
- Manage replication technologies and offsite backup strategies.
- Support enterprise business continuity programs.
Storage Performance & Capacity Management- Monitor storage performance, latency, throughput, and utilization metrics.
- Conduct trend analysis and growth forecasting.
- Optimize storage allocation and tiering strategies.
- Perform capacity planning and lifecycle management.
- Recommend storage modernization and cost optimization initiatives.
Cloud Storage & Backup Management- Administer cloud-based storage and backup platforms across Azure, AWS, and hybrid cloud environments.
- Implement backup and archival strategies for cloud workloads.
- Manage cloud-native backup solutions and storage lifecycle policies.
- Optimize cloud storage consumption and associated operational costs.
- Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
Security & Compliance- Implement storage security policies, access controls, encryption, and data protection mechanisms.
- Ensure backup and storage environments comply with organizational security standards.
- Support audit requirements and regulatory compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR, and PCI-DSS.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments and remediation activities.
- Ensure immutability and ransomware protection strategies are implemented.
Incident & Problem Management- Troubleshoot storage, backup, and recovery-related incidents.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for critical failures and outages.
- Participate in Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management processes.
- Maintain operational documentation, SOPs, and recovery procedures.
- Ensure SLA compliance across all storage and backup services.
Automation & Service Improvement- Develop automation scripts using PowerShell, Python, Shell Scripting, or vendor APIs.
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation frameworks where applicable.
- Continuously improve backup success rates, storage efficiency, and operational processes.
- Support platform modernization and transformation initiatives.
Experience & Educational Requirement
BE/B-Tech or equivalent with Computer Science or Electronics & Communication
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE- Minimum 8â€10 years of hands-on experience in enterprise storage and backup administration within large-scale IT environments.
- Proven experience in managing Cloud Storage, SAN, NAS, Object Storage, and enterprise-grade backup and recovery solutions.
- Strong practical exposure to administering and supporting large-scale enterprise storage infrastructures across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Experience supporting storage and backup requirements for VMware, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, and cloud-based workloads.
- Strong understanding of disaster recovery, business continuity, data protection frameworks, backup retention, and recovery strategies.
- Experience working in 24x7 managed services, enterprise operations, and SLA-driven support environments.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills with the ability to resolve complex storage and backup issues.
- Customer-focused, service-oriented approach with strong ownership, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Relevant certifications in storage, backup, cloud, virtualization, or data protection technologies will be an added advantage.
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