Senior Enterprise Storage & Backup Engineer (Remote)

Pragmatike; Madrid; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Teleworking up to 5 days/week

On-call rotation with compensation

Job summary

Pragmatike is seeking a Storage and Backup Engineer to design, implement, and operate enterprise storage and backup infrastructure. The role encompasses architecture, implementation, and day-to-day administration, with a focus on onboarding new services and adapting solutions to evolving technologies to ensure reliable, secure data protection.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of hands-on experience in storage and backup environments, and will work under the Infrastructure Operations Team Lead,

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of IT experience in managing and configuring enterprise Storage and Backup environments.
• Hands-on administration and troubleshooting of block and file storage systems across multiple vendors.
• Extensive experience with enterprise backup systems (e.g., Dell Avamar, PPDM, Data Domain, Veeam).
• Strong knowledge of storage networking (FC, iSCSI, NVMe, VSANs) and disaster recovery best practices.
• Experience with scripting and automation (Python, Ansible, Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise storage and backup architectures aligned with availability, recovery, capacity, and security requirements.
• Administer and maintain storage arrays, SAN fabrics, and backup platforms with health checks and policy management.
• Plan installations, upgrades, migrations, capacity expansions, and PoC deployments with testing and rollback procedures.
• Monitor system health, performance, capacity, and backup success; resolve bottlenecks and improve processes.
• Handle incidents and problems; provide Tier 3 support and lead root-cause analysis.
• Perform restores and disaster-recovery exercises to validate data protection capabilities.
• Apply security controls and change-management procedures to meet governance requirements.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal teams on maintenance and integration projects.
• Develop tools and scripts to automate provisioning, monitoring, reporting, and operations.
• Deliver storage and backup projects with technical assessments and handover documentation.
• Maintain runbooks, designs, and recovery procedures; share best practices within the team.
• Participate in standby/on-call duties and on-call rotations when required.

Skills

Storage design

Backup administration

NetApp

Dell PowerStore

Veeam

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Networking

ITIL

Tools

NetApp

Dell EMC ECS

Veeam Backup & Replication

Cisco/Brocade Fabric switches

Job description

Pragmatike is seeking a Storage and Backup Engineer to design, implement, and operate enterprise storage and backup infrastructure. The role encompasses architecture, implementation, and day-to-day administration, with a focus on onboarding new services and adapting solutions to evolving technologies to ensure reliable, secure data protection.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of hands-on experience in storage and backup environments, and will work under the Infrastructure Operations Team Lead,