The Storage & Backup Engineer is responsible for the operation, administration, and maintenance of enterprise storage and data protection infrastructure supporting high-performance GPU and data-intensive workloads. The role focuses on storage availability, performance, capacity, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and operational continuity.
Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain enterprise storage environments, including SAN, NAS, and parallel file systems supporting high-performance workloads.
- Manage storage resources such as LUNs, volumes, file system exports,storage connectivity, zoning, and multipathing.
- Support high-throughput data environments and AI/GPU workloads using advanced storage and data-access technologies.
- Support technologies such as GPUDirect Storage, NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF), and high-performance parallel file systems.
- Operate and maintain backup and recovery environments, including backup scheduling, monitoring, failure resolution, retention management, and restore activities.
- Perform regular recovery and restore testing to validate data protection and recoverability.
- Monitor storage capacity, throughput, latency, I/O performance, and overall system health.
- Perform storage performance analysis and tuning to maintain service performance for demanding workloads.
- Develop capacity and growth forecasts based on storage utilisation, workload requirements, and future infrastructure needs.
- Support data replication and disaster recovery activities, including periodic DR failover and recovery exercises.
- Ensure backup and DR activities meet defined Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements.
- Manage storage-related incidents, service requests, changes, maintenance activities, and firmware upgrades in accordance with established procedures.
- Troubleshoot storage, connectivity, and performance issues and coordinate technical escalation where required.
- Work with OEMs, vendors, and internal infrastructure teams to resolve complex storage and backup issues.
- Maintain storage configurations, technical documentation, operational procedures, configuration baselines, and compliance records.
Qualifications
Must-Have Requirements
- 4–7 years of experience in enterprise storage, backup, data protection, infrastructure operations, or related technical environments.
- Hands-on experience administering enterprise storage platforms from major vendors or equivalent technologies.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise SAN and NAS environments, including storage provisioning, LUNs, volumes, file system exports, zoning, and multipathing.
- Experience with Fibre Channel SAN environments, storage connectivity, and data replication.
- Experience with enterprise backup and recovery platforms such as Veeam, Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, or equivalent solutions.
- Understanding of backup policies, scheduling, retention, recovery processes, and object/archive storage tiering.
- Experience supporting high-performance or AI/GPU-oriented storage environments, including parallel file systems and high-throughput data pipelines.
- Knowledge of technologies such as GPFS, GPUDirect Storage, NVMe-oF, NFS/RDMA, or equivalent high-performance storage technologies.
- Strong Linux storage troubleshooting capabilities, including multipath, I/O scheduling, iSCSI, NFS, and storage performance analysis.
- Experience monitoring and analysing storage performance indicators such as throughput, latency, IOPS, capacity, and utilisation.
- Experience with disaster recovery, storage replication, backup recovery, and DR testing.
- Practical understanding of RPO/RTO requirements and their application to backup and disaster recovery operations.
- Experience handling storage incidents, changes, maintenance activities, firmware upgrades, and technical escalations.
- Ability to work with OEMs, vendors, infrastructure teams, and other technical stakeholders.
- Good documentation and configuration management practices.
- Fluent Bahasa Indonesia and working English.
- Willingness to provide on-call support outside the standard 8x5 operatingwindow when required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting GPU, AI, HPC, or other high-performance computing environments.
- Experience with large-scale storage environments and high-throughput data processing.
- Experience with advanced parallel file systems and AI-optimised storage architectures.
- Experience with storage performance optimisation and capacity planning for large-scale environments.
- Familiarity with enterprise storage platforms such as Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE, or equivalent technologies.
- Relevant professional certifications, such as: NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA), Dell EMC Storage certification or equivalent, Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE), ITIL 4 Foundation
Key Attributes
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, particularly in storage performance and availability.
- Detail-oriented in system configuration, monitoring, documentation, and change activities.
- Strong understanding of storage reliability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery principles.
- Able to analyse performance and capacity trends and identify potential infrastructure risks.
- Structured approach to incident, change, maintenance, and recovery activities.
- Strong ownership of data availability, recoverability, and operationalcontinuity.
- Effective communication and coordination with internal teams, customers,vendors, and OEM support.
- Proactive in identifying performance, capacity, backup, and availability issues.
- Comfortable working in a critical infrastructure environment with on-callresponsibilities.