Senior Storage and Backup Engineer

Stefanini Group; Richmond (VA); A distancia; USD 103.000 - 110.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

Stefanini Group is seeking a Senior Storage and Backup Engineer for a remote-capable role in a long-term contract. The position emphasizes storage hardware expertise, enterprise backup software, and strong automation skills to support critical financial applications.

The role requires experience with provisioning, configuration, upgrades, performance tuning, and incident management in complex environments. On-call duties and change-control adherence are key aspects of the job.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with 3–5+ years in storage/backup engineering.
• Expert level Commvault experience with high-severity issue handling and backup strategy guidance.
• Hands-on enterprise storage operations including provisioning, configuration, upgrades, and performance tuning.
• Strong change management adherence and documentation skills.
• Experience with storage hardware platforms (Hitachi, Dell, etc.) and VMware environments.

Responsabilidades

• Provide technical and production support for storage-related infrastructure and mission-critical applications.
• Perform storage and backup provisioning, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Document requirements and work with clients and senior engineers on storage requests.
• Implement upgrades and patches; remediate problems to maintain a stable environment.
• Participate in change control per client policies and support major infrastructure projects.
• Handle incident and problem management including on-call rotations and root cause analysis.

Conocimientos

Storage hardware

ESX/VMware

Automation/scripting

Incident response

Capacity/performance management

Documentation

Educación

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Herramientas

VMware ESX

Commvault

Cohesity

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

Descripción del empleo

Job Details

Systems Engineering Senior

Senior Storage and Backup Engineer Richmond, VA

Posted:10/29/2026

Job ID#: 65286

Job Category: Systems Engineering Senior

Position Type: Contract

Duration: Long Term

Remaining Positions: 1

About the Role

Stefanini Group is hiring! Stefanini is looking for Senior Storage and Backup Engineer-Remote W2 Candidates Only

Responsibilities

• Provides technical/production support and expertise for all storage related software and hardware critical infrastructure services and mission critical financial applications.
• Performs storage and backup provisioning, configuration, maintenance, resource management, reporting and troubleshooting.
• Successful support requires a strong, in-depth appreciation of business operations and processes.
• Participates in gathering support information for management.
• Experienced level position requires developing career in field and gaining knowledge of industry practices.
• Requires moderate level of experience and proficiency in field.
• Under general supervision maintains the integrity of storage networks and systems.
• Performs storage and backup support tasks, maintenance, configuration and troubleshooting and provides resolution of problem tickets.
• Implements upgrades and patches.
• Recommends and remediates problems and vulnerabilities to meet customer needs and maintain a stable environment.
• Works with clients and senior engineers to document/implement storage and backup requests or revisions.
• Practices change control and applies strict adherence to client change control policy and follows all change guidelines.
• Participates in project activities to support major infrastructure or application projects.
• Participates in workgroups which evaluate, recommend design, build, test and coordinate the implementation of product solutions.
• Performs change management using standard tools following client's change management policies and procedures for software/hardware propagation to other platforms and/or environments.
• Ensures conformance with existing system capability.
• Performs incident and problem management responsibilities including on-call rotations, troubleshooting and diagnostics, and root cause analysis.
• Performs capacity and performance management responsibilities including reviewing capacity and performance trends, ensuring adequate capacity has been allocated to support the trends, and conducting performance tuning and environment optimization.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of storage hardware platforms (Hitachi, Dell, etc.)
• Familiarity with ESX/VMware environments
• Expert level Commvault experience, with the ability to independently handle high severity issues and guide backup strategy.
• Hands on experience with enterprise storage operations (provisioning, configuration, upgrades, performance tuning)
• Experience supporting mission critical environments, including incident response and root cause analysis
• Strong understanding of change management and adherence to established processes
• Expert level Cohesity experience
• Automation/scripting (Ansible, Python, PowerShell)
• Capacity and performance management experience
• Excellent communication and documentation skills

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience with 3 to 5+ years of relevant work experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience with monitoring/performance tools (Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace)
• Networking knowledge relevant to storage (NFS, SMB, FC, iSCSI)
• Prior experience in regulated or financial environments
• Familiarity with security and vulnerability remediation

Pay Range

$ 75.00 - $ 80.00

Company Overview

Stefanini takes pride in hiring top talent and developing relationships with our future employees. Our talent acquisition teams will never make an offer of employment without having a phone conversation with you. Those face-to-face conversations will involve a description of the job for which you have applied. We also speak with you about the process including interviews and job offers.

The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore and near shore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises around the world. Our presence is in countries like the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and more than four hundred clients across a broad spectrum of markets, including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM level 5, IT consulting company with a global presence. We are CMM Level 5 company