Full Time | Valencia, Spain or Brindisi, Italy or Remotely within Region 3 (Southern & Eastern Europe)

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Location: Valencia, Spain or Brindisi, Italy or Remotely within Region 3 (Southern & Eastern Europe)

Required Technical Skills

SCOPE OF WORK:

Deployment and administration:

- Design and implement enterprise storage and backup architectures aligned with business, availability, recovery, capacity, and security requirements.
- Administer and maintain storage arrays, SAN fabrics, and backup platforms, including daily health checks, storage provisioning, host integration, backup client configuration, schedules, retention policies, and replication.
- Plan and execute installations, upgrades, migrations, capacity expansions, and proof-of-concept deployments, including testing, validation, and rollback procedures.
- Monitor and analyze system health, performance, capacity, and backup success; resolve bottlenecks and implement improvements.
- Resolve incidents, problems, and service requests; provide Tier 3 support, lead root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Perform restores and recovery tests, and support disaster-recovery exercises to validate data protection and recovery capabilities.
- Apply security controls, hardening standards, and approved configuration changes in accordance with established policies and change-management procedures.
- Collaborate with vendors and internal teams on maintenance, upgrades, interoperability, and complex issue resolution.
- Develop and maintain tools and scripts to automate storage and backup provisioning, monitoring, reporting, and routine operations.
- Deliver storage and backup projects for the organization and its partner entities, including technical assessments, business cases, project proposals,



and operational handover.
- Maintain technical designs, configuration records, runbooks, and recovery procedures, share knowledge and promote best practices within the team.
- Participate in standby/on-call duties, planned maintenance, and other service-coverage arrangements when required.

The resource MUST have the following skills and experience:

- Minimum 8+ years of relevant IT work experience in managing and configuring enterprise Storage and Backup environments and related services in a complex heterogenous environment
- Extensive hands-on experience in the administration and troubleshooting of block and file storage systems across multiple vendor platforms (e.g., NetApp, Dell PowerStore, Dell ECS systems)
- Excellent knowledge in the installation and administration of Enterprise Backup systems (e.g., DELL Avamar, PPDM, Data Domain, Veeam B&R; and other market leaders in backup solutions)
- Expert-level troubleshooting and problem resolution for storage and backup infrastructures.
- Solid understanding and knowledge of storage technologies (Cisco/Brocade Fabric switches, VSANs, WWPNs, NPIV, multipathing, Fibre channel, iSCSI)
- Strong understanding of data protection, disaster recovery, and best practices in backup and storage management.
- Good understanding and knowledge of networking technologies
- Working Experience in shell scripting and automation tools (e.g., Python, Ansible, Terraform)
- Ability to work under pressure with minimum supervision




- Customer-centric approach to delivery and problem solving
- Good knowledge of ITIL service management methodology

The resource SHOULD have the following skills and experience:

- Experience with Hyper Converged Infrastructure or Software Defined Storage solutions isan advantage
- Good presentation skills and ability to convey complex technical information to non-technical audience
- Experience with service reporting and business analytics
- Experience with cloud storage solutions (e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage)
- Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V)

Soft skills:

- Teamwork: Builds effective relationships and resolves conflicts constructively.
- Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences: Demonstrates the ability to work constructively with people of all backgrounds and orientations. Respects differences and ensures that all can contribute.
- Knowing and managing yourself: Manages ambiguity and pressure in a self-reflective way. Uses criticism as a development opportunity. Seeks opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth.
- Producing results: Produces and delivers quality results. Is action oriented and committed to achieving outcomes
- Moving forward in a changing environment: Is open to and proposes new approaches and ideas. Adapts and responds positively to change.

Relevant certifications related to abovementioned virtualization solutions are highly desirable:

- Industry-recognized certifications in Storage, Backup, or Cloud Technologies.
- Certifications in any programming language or scripting framework (e.g., Python, Ansible, PowerShell).
- ITIL, ISO20000, PRINCE2 certifications

Teleworking Option:

- Yes, up to 5 days per week.

On-call requirements:

- One week per month (rotation subject to the number of team members)

📌 Storage & Backup Engineer (Valencia)
🏢 United ITs
📍 Valencia