Enterprise Storage & Backup Architect - Remote Europe

United ITS; Comunidad Valenciana; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

United ITS seeks a senior Storage & Backup Architect to design and implement enterprise storage and backup architectures across data centers in Valencia and Brindisi, with remote options within Region 3 (Southern & Eastern Europe).

Role requires 8+ years in storage and backup management, hands-on NetApp, Dell PowerStore/ECS, and Veeam experience; scripting and automation skills (Python, Ansible) are essential. Lead projects, DR testing, and vendor collaboration.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of relevant IT work experience in managing and configuring enterprise Storage and Backup environments in a complex environment.
• Extensive hands-on experience with block and file storage systems across multiple vendor platforms (NetApp, Dell PowerStore, Dell ECS).
• Expert-level troubleshooting for storage and backup infrastructures.
• Solid understanding of storage technologies: Fibre Channel, iSCSI, VSANs, WWPNs.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise storage and backup architectures aligned with business, availability, recovery, capacity, and security requirements.
• Administer and maintain storage arrays, SAN fabrics, and backup platforms with daily health checks, provisioning, host integration, and replication.
• Plan and execute installations, upgrades, migrations, capacity expansions, and POC deployments with testing and rollback procedures.
• Monitor system health, performance, capacity, and backup success; resolve bottlenecks and implement improvements.
• Provide Tier 3 support, lead root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions; perform restores and DR testing.

Skills

Storage architecture

Backup management

Scripting (Python/Ansible)

Vendor collaboration

Disaster recovery planning

On-call support

Tools

NetApp

Dell PowerStore

Dell ECS

Veeam

PPDM

Data Domain

Scripting tools (Python/Ansible)

Job description

United ITS seeks a senior Storage & Backup Architect to design and implement enterprise storage and backup architectures across data centers in Valencia and Brindisi, with remote options within Region 3 (Southern & Eastern Europe).

Role requires 8+ years in storage and backup management, hands-on NetApp, Dell PowerStore/ECS, and Veeam experience; scripting and automation skills (Python, Ansible) are essential. Lead projects, DR testing, and vendor collaboration.