Senior Storage Engineer — Enterprise Storage & DR

MTP Services; Canberra; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MTP Services seeks a Senior Storage Engineer in Canberra to design, operate and evolve large-scale storage, backup and data protection platforms for a major Federal Government environment.

You will work across BAU and projects, delivering storage architecture, capacity planning, disaster recovery, cybersecurity controls and lifecycle management while supporting business continuity and data integrity.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years' experience designing, implementing, maintaining and managing large-scale enterprise storage environments.
• Strong experience with enterprise storage architecture and capacity management.
• Strong hands-on experience across enterprise backup, recovery and replication technologies.
• Experience supporting highly available and business-critical infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of storage performance, resilience, data integrity and lifecycle management.
• Experience with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity environments.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues across interconnected systems.
• Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
• The ability to work autonomously and provide senior-level technical advice.

Responsibilities

• Designing, maintaining and improving large-scale on-premises storage platforms.
• Developing storage architectures, storage tiers and long-term capacity plans.
• Monitoring storage performance, utilisation, availability and overall platform health.
• Optimising storage environments across a range of enterprise workloads.
• Designing, implementing and managing enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
• Managing off-site replication and data restoration capabilities.
• Supporting Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning, testing and improvement.
• Managing and supporting LTO tape libraries and archival storage operations.
• Coordinating firmware upgrades, patching and infrastructure lifecycle replacement.
• Supporting data preservation and integrity management solutions.
• Implementing and improving cybersecurity controls across core infrastructure.
• Providing senior technical advice across storage, server, virtualisation, networking and broader infrastructure environments.
• Supporting infrastructure procurement, technical evaluations and vendor management.
• Producing and maintaining technical documentation, procedures and operational standards.
• Troubleshooting complex infrastructure and storage-related issues.
• Supporting continuous improvement across technology operations.

Skills

Storage architecture

Capacity planning

Backup and recovery

Disaster recovery

Cybersecurity controls

Documentation

Vendor management

Tools

SAN/NAS technologies

Enterprise backup platforms

LTO tape libraries

Job description

MTP Services seeks a Senior Storage Engineer in Canberra to design, operate and evolve large-scale storage, backup and data protection platforms for a major Federal Government environment.

You will work across BAU and projects, delivering storage architecture, capacity planning, disaster recovery, cybersecurity controls and lifecycle management while supporting business continuity and data integrity.