Storage & Backup Automation Engineer

MORGAN MCKINLEY PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MORGAN MCKINLEY PTE. LTD. is seeking a motivated ICT Infrastructure Engineer for the Prod Ops - Storage team in Singapore. The role focuses on storage and backup systems, supporting planning, deployment, migrations, and day-to-day operations to boost reliability and efficiency.

The candidate will drive automation initiatives, collaborate across infra teams, and contribute to security baselines and documentation. A strong background in enterprise storage and backup tech is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline with 5+ years in storage engineering or infrastructure operations.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms such as Hitachi, NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage, HPE or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of SAN, NAS, iSCSI, NFS, and CIFS/SMB in enterprise storage.
• Proven experience in storage migration, re-platforming, data migration, or storage consolidation projects.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise backup solutions such as Veritas NetBackup, Commvault, Veeam, Dell EMC NetWorker or equivalent.
• Experience with backup migrations, disaster recovery, and restoration testing with RTO/RPO awareness.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar scripting languages for automation.
• Familiarity with security hardening, baselines, test docs, and compliance/audit requirements.
• Experience with cloud storage/backup technologies like AWS S3 or AWS Backup is advantageous.
• Strong communication, documentation, troubleshooting, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with AI-assisted tooling for automation, log analysis, anomaly detection, or runbooks.
• Experience in ITIL-aligned or structured IT operations environments.

Responsibilities

• Support planning, design and implementation of storage and backup infra projects, including deployments and migrations.
• Support data migration projects, onboarding of platforms, and decommissioning legacy storage.
• Design, configure and manage backup infra, including policies, schedules, retention and jobs.
• Perform and support backup restoration, DR and recovery testing to meet objectives.
• Support migration/re-platforming of backup workloads while maintaining data protection.
• Ensure storage/backup implementations comply with security, compliance and audits.
• Conduct and document functional, performance, security and operational testing.
• Provide day-to-day operational support including capacity, performance monitoring, incidents and health checks.
• Identify opportunities to improve ops efficiency via automation and AI-assisted tools.
• Collaborate with server, network, database, app, security and other infra teams.
• Develop and maintain technical docs, procedures and knowledge bases.

Skills

Storage engineering

Infrastructure operations

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Cloud storage

Automation

Stakeholder management

ITIL

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Hitachi storage

NetApp

Dell EMC

Pure Storage

HPE

Veritas NetBackup

Commvault

Veeam

Dell EMC NetWorker

AWS S3

Job description

MORGAN MCKINLEY PTE. LTD. is seeking a motivated ICT Infrastructure Engineer for the Prod Ops - Storage team in Singapore. The role focuses on storage and backup systems, supporting planning, deployment, migrations, and day-to-day operations to boost reliability and efficiency.

The candidate will drive automation initiatives, collaborate across infra teams, and contribute to security baselines and documentation. A strong background in enterprise storage and backup tech is required.