Senior Storage & Backup Architect

Spektrum; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Spektrum is seeking an experienced Storage and Backup Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise storage and backup environments in a NATO-aligned, highly secure setting in Portugal. You will work under the guidance of Infrastructure Operations and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

You will administer storage arrays and SAN fabrics, run daily health checks, automate provisioning with Python/Ansible/Terraform, perform restores and DR testing, and support incident resolution.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of relevant IT work experience in managing and configuring enterprise Storage and Backup environments and related services in a complex heterogenous environment.

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, including daily health checks, storage provisioning, host integration, backup client configuration, schedules, retention policies, and replication.
• Plan and execute installations, upgrades, migrations, capacity expansions, and proof-of-concept deployments, including testing, validation, and rollback procedures.
• Monitor and analyze system health, performance, capacity, and backup success; resolve bottlenecks and implement improvements.
• Resolve incidents, problems, and service requests; provide Tier 3 support, lead root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Perform restores and recovery tests, and support disaster-recovery exercises to validate data protection and recovery capabilities.
• Apply security controls, hardening standards, and approved configuration changes in accordance with established policies and change-management procedures.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal teams on maintenance, upgrades, interoperability, and complex issue resolution.
• Develop and maintain tools and scripts to automate storage and backup provisioning, monitoring, reporting, and routine operations.
• Deliver storage and backup projects for the organization and its partner entities, including technical assessments, business cases, project proposals, and operational handover.
• Maintain technical designs, configuration records, runbooks, and recovery procedures; share knowledge and promote best practices within the team.
• Participate in standby/on-call duties, planned maintenance, and other service-coverage arrangements when required.

Skills

Storage management

Backup administration

Networking basics

Problem solving

Education

IT diploma

Tools

NetApp

Dell PowerStore

Dell ECS

Dell Avamar

Data Domain

Veeam B&R

Cisco switches

VSANs

NPIV

Fibre Channel

iSCSI

VMware

Hyper-V

Python

Ansible

Terraform

AWS S3

Azure Blob Storage

Job description

Spektrum is seeking an experienced Storage and Backup Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise storage and backup environments in a NATO-aligned, highly secure setting in Portugal. You will work under the guidance of Infrastructure Operations and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

You will administer storage arrays and SAN fabrics, run daily health checks, automate provisioning with Python/Ansible/Terraform, perform restores and DR testing, and support incident resolution.