Storage and Data Protection Engineer – Hybrid Amsterdam

Cognizant; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Udemy

Cognizant Academy

NS Business Card

25 paid holidays

Laptop and smartphone provided

International environment and open 팀

Job summary

Cognizant in Amsterdam is seeking an experienced Storage & Data Protection specialist to manage enterprise storage, backup, and recovery technologies across a hybrid work model.

You will troubleshoot, optimize, and strengthen restore and data protection capabilities, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure maximum availability and performance for critical business data in a dynamic, international environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years supporting enterprise storage and data protection environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience with enterprise backup platforms, policy management, and restore workflows.
• Solid understanding of storage networking protocols.
• Experience with snapshot lifecycle management: creation, scheduling, retention, restoration.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in hybrid and geographically distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot platform latency and connectivity across enterprise storage environments.
• Diagnose and resolve storage protocol and data access issues across file and object storage.
• Investigate, triage, and resolve backup job failures.
• Lead recovery activities with snapshot and full restores.
• Maintain and validate restore readiness procedures and checklists.
• Execute restore validation testing and document results and recommendations.
• Monitor performance, availability, resilience of storage and backup platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional technical teams for incident management and service improvements.

Job description

Cognizant in Amsterdam is seeking an experienced Storage & Data Protection specialist to manage enterprise storage, backup, and recovery technologies across a hybrid work model.

You will troubleshoot, optimize, and strengthen restore and data protection capabilities, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure maximum availability and performance for critical business data in a dynamic, international environment.