Storage & Backup Architect

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Storage & Backup Architect to design, implement, manage, and optimize enterprise storage, backup, and disaster recovery infrastructure. The candidate should have strong expertise in SAN/NAS technologies, enterprise backup solutions, data protection, replication, recovery planning, capacity management, and performance optimization across large-scale data center environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage and backup architectures aligned with business continuity, performance, scalability, and availability requirements.

• Architect and manage SAN, NAS, block, file, and object storage solutions.

• Configure and manage Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, RAID, LUN provisioning, zoning, and multipathing.

• Design and implement enterprise backup, recovery, archival, and data retention solutions.

• Manage backup policies, schedules, retention, replication, and recovery procedures for physical and virtual environments.

• Implement backup solutions for VMware, Windows, Linux, databases, applications, and file systems.

• Design and manage backup infrastructure, including backup servers, media servers, repositories, deduplication appliances, and backup storage.

• Implement and manage immutable backups, air-gapped protection, and ransomware recovery strategies.

• Design and validate disaster recovery solutions, including storage replication, backup copies, recovery objectives (RPO/RTO), and DR testing.

• Monitor backup job status, resolve failures, troubleshoot performance issues, and ensure successful backup and restore operations.

• Perform periodic recovery testing and validate data integrity and recoverability.

• Manage storage capacity planning, performance monitoring, utilization, and lifecycle management.

• Lead storage and backup migrations, upgrades, refresh activities, and infrastructure transformation projects.

• Integrate storage and backup solutions with VMware, enterprise servers, databases, and data center infrastructure.

• Prepare HLDs, LLDs, implementation plans, SOPs, backup policies, and disaster recovery documentation.

• Coordinate with infrastructure, network, virtualization, application, and security teams to resolve complex technical issues.

• Provide technical leadership for incident management, root cause analysis, and infrastructure optimization.

Requirements

Required Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in enterprise storage architecture, administration, and troubleshooting.

• Hands-on experience with SAN/NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, RAID, storage provisioning, and multipathing.

• Experience with enterprise storage platforms such as Dell PowerStore/PowerMax, NetApp, HPE Alletra/Primera, IBM FlashSystem, or equivalent.

• Strong experience with enterprise backup solutions such as Veeam, Veritas NetBackup, Dell NetWorker, Commvault, or equivalent.

• Knowledge of backup architecture, backup repositories, deduplication, compression, replication, and retention management.

• Experience in backup and recovery for VMware virtual machines, Windows/Linux servers, databases, and enterprise applications.

• Understanding of immutable backups, ransomware protection, off-site backup copies, and air-gapped recovery.

• Expertise in disaster recovery planning, RPO/RTO requirements, recovery testing, and business continuity.

• Experience with storage replication, snapshots, thin provisioning, and data migration.

• Knowledge of VMware vSphere integration with storage and backup infrastructure.

• Experience in performance monitoring, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.

• Ability to create technical architecture documents, implementation plans, and operational procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

• Relevant storage or backup vendor certifications are an advantage.

• Experience working in large enterprise, telecom, or service-provider data center environments.

• Exposure to automation, monitoring, and infrastructure management tools.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and technical documentation skills.

• Ability to lead technical discussions and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

• Strong focus on data protection, service availability, security, and operational excellence

Expected Outcome

Deliver a secure, scalable, and resilient storage and backup infrastructure that ensures data availability, reliable backup and recovery, disaster recovery readiness, and business continuity across enterprise IT environments.

Working Hours

Monday to Saturday (6 Days)

Benefits