Senior Storage Specialist

Canadian Tire; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 64,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Canadian retail company is seeking a highly skilled Senior Storage Specialist to implement and manage IT storage solutions. This role involves optimizing storage performance, ensuring data integrity, and supporting cloud-first strategies. Candidates must have significant experience in storage management and knowledge of various storage technologies. This position offers competitive compensation and great benefits, including career growth opportunities and performance incentives.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs

Performance incentives

Continuing Education Programs

Career growth opportunities and product discounts

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in IT storage management.
• Experience working with third-party vendors and resources.
• Proven capability to execute multiple streams of work simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage scalable storage solutions.
• Monitor and optimize storage performance and capacity.
• Troubleshoot and resolve storage-related issues in a timely manner.

Skills

Strong understanding of SAN, NAS, DAS, and object storage technologies

Proficiency in managing storage arrays from major vendors

Strong programming / scripting skills

Knowledge of virtualization technologies

Excellent technical, analytical, and organizational skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Veeam

Commvault

Cohesity

Azure Blob Storage

Google Cloud Storage

DELL EMC

NetApp

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Storage Specialist to implement and manage our IT storage solutions. You will play a critical role in supporting Canadian Tire’s on-premises and cloud storage strategies. Your expertise will be essential in assessing, planning, and executing, as we transition towards cloud-first solutions.

WhatYou’llDo:

• Implement, and manage scalable storage solutions set by the Storage Architects.

• Monitor and optimize storage performance and capacity.

• Ensure data integrity and security across all storage platforms. Understand and implement Disaster Recovery protocols for Storage Platforms.

• Support the operational team, as required, while they perform regular backups and recovery.

Collaborate with other IT teams to integrate storage solutions with existing systems.

• Troubleshoot and resolve storage-related issues in a timely manner.

• Maintain documentation for all storage configurations and procedures.

• Stay updated on the latest developments in storage technology and best practices.

• Provide training and support to other IT staff on storage-related topics.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field experience.

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in IT storage management.

• Strong understanding of SAN, NAS, DAS, and object storage technologies.

• Proficiency in managing storage arrays from major vendors (e.g., DELL EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, IBM).

• Strong programming / scripting skills.

• Understanding or hands-on experience with backup and recovery software (e.g., Veeam, Commvault, Cohesity).

• Understanding or hands-on experience with cloud-based storage solutions (e.g., Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage).

• Knowledge of virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V).

• Experience working with third-party vendors and resources, including overseas teams.

• Ability to lead troubleshooting and problem investigations across multiple teams and technologies to solve issues effectively.

• Strong focus on relationships, collaboration, critical thinking, supporting of other teams, and have growth mindset.

• Excellent technical, analytical, and organizational skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Proven capability to execute multiple streams of work simultaneously in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

• Innovate new ways of working with AI and automation, while fostering experimentation and accountability.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs

• Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs

• Other perks to support your well-being

• Career growth opportunities and product discounts

Our typical hiring range is between $64,000 and $106,000 Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, job-related knowledge, skills and competencies, market location, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements.

This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies.With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.