Storage and Backup Administrator

Role & responsibilities

Role Purpose

Lead the design, engineering, modernization, governance, and operational excellence of the Storage/Back-up capability for Storage / Back up, delivering secure, resilient, scalable, supportable, and measurable enterprise technology outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design scalable enterprise storage, backup, and recovery solutions aligned with business continuity, resilience, and operational requirements.
• Develop backup, restore, retention, and disaster recovery strategies across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Lead restore validation, recovery testing, backup health checks, and risk assessments to ensure recovery readiness and service reliability.
• Analyze backup failures, storage utilization, capacity trends, and operational risks to recommend service improvements.
• Drive automation, reporting, and operational workflows to improve backup reliability, administrative efficiency, and platform governance.
• Partner with infrastructure, cloud, application, and security teams to deliver data protection solutions for projects, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
• Create solution documentation, architecture diagrams, standards, implementation guidelines, and audit-ready operational evidence.
• Manage capacity planning, storage optimization, lifecycle management, compliance, and service governance across storage platforms.
• Deliver measurable outcomes by improving recovery readiness, reducing operational risk, strengthening data protection, and enabling automation-led modernization.

Mandatory Technical Skills

• Enterprise storage, backup and recovery architecture.
• SAN/NAS.
• Retention.
• Restore validation.
• Disaster recovery.
• Ransomware readiness.
• Capacity and lifecycle management.
• Automation.
• Compliance.

Platforms and Tools

• Commvault.
• NetApp.
• SAN/NAS platforms.
• Spectrum Protect.
• AWS Backup.
• ServiceNow.
• Monitoring.
• Reporting and automation tools.

Leadership and Stakeholder Skills

• Strong technical ownership.
• Structured problem solving.
• Clear communication.
• Cross-team collaboration.
• Operational discipline.
• Documentation.
• Mentoring and continuous improvement.

Preferred / Good to Have

• Cyber-recovery vaults.
• Immutable backup.
• Cloud data protection.
• Recovery orchestration.
• Infrastructure as code.
• And service-catalog automation.