Storage and Backup Expert

Ericsson; Dubai; On-site; AED 360,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

Ericsson in United Arab Emirates seeks a Storage and Backup Expert to administer and optimize enterprise storage and data protection platforms. You will focus on day-to-day operations, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management across multi-vendor storage technologies including Dell, IBM, Pure, and Huawei, with NetWorker/PPDM/Data Domain for backups.

You will collaborate with UNIX/Linux, Windows, VMware, and cloud teams, provide guidance to junior staff, and participate in on-call coverage to

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree in a relevant field and 8+ years in storage/backend administration.
• Experience with multi-vendor storage and backup environments in enterprise settings.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and handle high-pressure production issues.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise storage platforms (Dell, IBM, Pure, Huawei) across VMAX, PowerMax, Unity, NAS and ECS.
• Manage backup solutions (NetWorker, PPDM, Data Domain) with schedules, retention and compliance.
• Perform provisioning, zoning, masking, capacity management and performance monitoring.
• Coordinate storage migrations, upgrades, firmware updates and patching.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support and act as senior escalation point for storage incidents.
• Collaborate with UNIX/Linux, Windows, VMware, Cloud teams and mentor juniors.

Skills

Storage administration

Dell storage VMAX/PowerMax/Unity

IBM Flash Storage

NetWorker/PPDM/Data Domain

VMware/UNIX/Linux/Windows

SAN/NAS; FC; iSCSI

DR and backups

On-call support

Education

BSc in Telecommunications, Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

DELL Storage Suite

IBM Flash Storage

Pure Storage

Huawei OceanStor

NetWorker

PPDM

Data Domain

Job description

About this opportunity

We are looking for a Storage and Backup Expert responsible for administering, supporting and maintaining enterprise storage and data protection platforms to ensure high availability, performance, security and recoverability of business‑critical systems. The role focuses on day‑to‑day operations, troubleshooting, optimization, and lifecycle management across multi‑vendor storage and backup technologies.

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About this opportunity

We are looking for a Storage and Backup Expert responsible for administering, supporting and maintaining enterprise storage and data protection platforms to ensure high availability, performance, security and recoverability of business‑critical systems. The role focuses on day‑to‑day operations, troubleshooting, optimization, and lifecycle management across multi‑vendor storage and backup technologies.

What you will do

Storage Administration

• Administer and support enterprise storage platforms including DELL Storage systems (VMAX, PowerMax, Unity, NAS and Elastic Cloud Storage – ECS).
• Manage and support IBM Flash Storage, IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS), Pure Storage and Huawei OceanStor environments.
• Perform storage provisioning, zoning, masking, capacity management and performance monitoring.
• Monitor storage health and proactively resolve performance, availability and capacity issues to meet SLAs.
• Execute storage migrations, upgrades, firmware updates and patching activities.
• Support replication, snapshots and disaster recovery operations per defined procedures.

Backup & Data Protection

• Administer enterprise backup solutions using DELL EMC NetWorker, PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) and Data Domain.
• Manage backup jobs, schedules, retention policies and compliance requirements.
• Monitor backup operations, troubleshoot failures and ensure completion within backup windows.
• Perform restore requests, recovery testing and disaster recovery support activities.
• Ensure backup and recovery operations meet defined RPO/RTO objectives.

Operations & Support

• Act as senior escalation point for storage and backup incidents, problems and service requests.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive actions to avoid recurrence.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Participate in on‑call support for 24x7 production environments as required.
• Coordinate with vendors for technical support, case management and issue resolution.

Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing

• Work closely with UNIX/Linux, Windows, VMware, Cloud and Application teams for storage and backup activities.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior team members.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders on operational status, incidents and risk areas.
• Identify and upscale operational risks and ensure tracking to closure.

What you will bring

• Hands‑on experience with DELL Storage (VMAX, PowerMax, Unity, NAS, ECS), IBM Flash Storage, IBM ESS, Pure Storage and Huawei OceanStor.
• Expertise in DELL EMC NetWorker, PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) and Data Domain.
• Solid understanding of SAN/NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, multipathing and storage networking.
• Experience supporting storage for VMware, UNIX/Linux and database environments.
• Knowledge of replication, snapshots and DR operations.

Qualifications

• BSc in Telecommunications, Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience in Storage and Backup Administration in enterprise environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and handle high‑pressure production issues.
• Proactive, detail‑oriented and ownership‑driven approach.

Why join Ericsson?

At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Primary country and city

United Arab Emirates (AE) || Dubai