Senior Storage & Backup Engineer – Hybrid (EU)

Spektrum; Valencia; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Spektrum is recruiting a seasoned Storage and Backup Engineer to join a NATO-aligned technology team. The role focuses on designing, deploying and maintaining enterprise storage and backup solutions across complex environments, delivering high availability and robust data protection.

You will work under the Infrastructure Operations Team Lead, collaborating with cross-functional groups to drive improvements, perform disaster-recovery tests, and automate provisioning using scripting and modern

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of relevant IT work experience in managing and configuring enterprise Storage and Backup environments in a complex heterogeneous environment.
• Extensive hands-on experience with block and file storage systems across vendor platforms (NetApp, Dell PowerStore, Dell EMC Data Domain).
• Expert-level troubleshooting and problem resolution for storage and backup infrastructures.
• Strong knowledge of data protection, disaster recovery, and backup best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day administration of storage and backup infrastructure and architectures.
• Design and implement storage and backup solutions aligned with availability, recovery, capacity and security needs.
• Plan installations, upgrades, migrations, and capacity expansions with testing and rollback procedures.
• Monitor system health and performance; optimize bottlenecks and backup success rates.
• Lead root-cause analysis, resolve incidents, and drive corrective actions.
• Perform restores and recovery tests; support disaster-recovery exercises.
• Apply security controls and change-management procedures; collaborate with vendors and teams.

Skills

Storage & Backup Ops

NetApp

Dell PowerStore

Veeam

VMware

Scripting (Python)

ITIL

Tools

Dell EMC Data Domain

PowerStore

Veeam Backup & Replication

VMware ESXi

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Spektrum is recruiting a seasoned Storage and Backup Engineer to join a NATO-aligned technology team. The role focuses on designing, deploying and maintaining enterprise storage and backup solutions across complex environments, delivering high availability and robust data protection.

You will work under the Infrastructure Operations Team Lead, collaborating with cross-functional groups to drive improvements, perform disaster-recovery tests, and automate provisioning using scripting and modern