Remote Storage & Backup Engineer

Hmixray; Somerville (MA); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Hmixray is seeking a Storage and Backup Administrator to manage the organization\'s enterprise storage and backup environments, ensuring availability, performance, integrity, retention, and recoverability of data across SAN, NAS, replication, and disaster recovery platforms.

You will collaborate with IT teams to support workloads, capacity planning, data protection, troubleshooting, and documentation, while participating in audits and compliance.

Qualifications

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience in storage and backup administration.
• Experience managing enterprise storage platforms including SAN, NAS, or similar technologies.
• Experience managing backup and recovery platforms, policies, schedules, retention, and restoration procedures.
• Strong understanding of storage concepts including volumes, LUNs, shares, snapshots, replication, performance, capacity, and data integrity.
• Familiarity with virtualization platforms such as VMware/Hyper‑V and Linux/Windows servers.
• Familiarity with storage networking concepts (iSCSI, NFS, SMB) and data protection workflows.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain enterprise storage solutions including SAN, NAS, and related platforms.
• Monitor storage health, availability, performance, utilization, and capacity.
• Provide provisioning and lifecycle management of storage resources.
• Troubleshoot storage performance, connectivity, capacity, replication, and data availability issues.
• Maintain storage configurations, access controls, snapshots, replication, and data protection settings.
• Assist with storage lifecycle planning, upgrades, migrations, and optimization.
• Ensure configurations meet reliability, performance, scalability, and data integrity standards.
• Manage and maintain enterprise backup platforms, jobs, schedules, policies, retention, and recovery workflows.
• Monitor backup success, failures, trends, performance, capacity, and health.
• Troubleshoot backup failures, missed jobs, replication issues, retention problems, and recovery errors.
• Perform regular backup validation and recovery testing to confirm data recoverability.
• Support file-level, system-level, application-level, and disaster recovery restoration efforts.
• Maintain backup and recovery procedures for critical systems and data.
• Ensure practices align with business requirements, retention policies, compliance, and standards.
• Support DR planning, testing, documentation, and execution.
• Assist with defining and validating recovery objectives and restoration procedures.
• Coordinate with teams during recovery events and DR exercises.
• Support replication, snapshot, immutable backup, archival, and other data protection technologies.
• Identify risks related to backup coverage, recoverability, retention, and capacity.
• Recommend improvements to strengthen data protection and DR readiness.
• Monitor storage and backup capacity utilization, growth, and performance.
• Identify capacity risks and performance bottlenecks.
• Recommend expansions and platform upgrades.
• Provide capacity and performance reporting to stakeholders.
• Serve as primary technical owner for storage and backup incidents.
• Provide escalation support for storage availability and recovery issues.
• Participate in root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
• On-call rotation participation for critical incidents.

Skills

Storage administration

Backup administration

VMware/Hyper-V

Linux/Windows

Networking concepts

Documentation

On-call support

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or related field

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Rubrik

Commvault

Veeam

NetBackup

NetApp

Job description

Hmixray is seeking a Storage and Backup Administrator to manage the organization\'s enterprise storage and backup environments, ensuring availability, performance, integrity, retention, and recoverability of data across SAN, NAS, replication, and disaster recovery platforms.

You will collaborate with IT teams to support workloads, capacity planning, data protection, troubleshooting, and documentation, while participating in audits and compliance.