Senior Storage & Backup Engineer: Enterprise Data Protection

Spektrum; United States; Remote; USD 67,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Spektrum is seeking an experienced Storage & Backup Engineer to join our team supporting NATO-related projects across a complex enterprise environment. The role emphasizes designing, deploying, and optimizing storage and backup infrastructures with a strong focus on data protection, availability, and security.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of hands-on experience with NetApp, Dell PowerStore, Data Domain, and backup platforms, plus scripting in Python or Ansible.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT storage and backup experience.
• Experience with multiple vendor storage platforms and backup solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting and automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise storage and backup architectures.
• Administer and maintain storage arrays, SAN fabrics, and backup platforms.
• Plan and execute installations, upgrades, migrations, and PoC deployments.
• Monitor system health, performance, capacity, and backup success; resolve bottlenecks.
• Provide Tier 3 support, lead root‑cause analysis, and implement preventive actions.
• Perform restores and disaster‑recovery exercises.
• Apply security controls and change-management procedures.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal teams on maintenance and interoperability.
• Develop tools and scripts to automate provisioning, monitoring, reporting, and operations.
• Deliver storage and backup projects with business cases and operational handover.
• Maintain runbooks, configuration records, and recovery procedures.

Skills

Storage admin

Backup solutions

NetApp

Dell PowerStore

Data Domain

Veeam

Python

Ansible

Terraform

ITIL

Tools

Dell Avamar

Veeam B&R

Cisco switches

VSANs

NPIV

PowerShell

VMware

Hyper-V

Job description

Spektrum is seeking an experienced Storage & Backup Engineer to join our team supporting NATO-related projects across a complex enterprise environment. The role emphasizes designing, deploying, and optimizing storage and backup infrastructures with a strong focus on data protection, availability, and security.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of hands-on experience with NetApp, Dell PowerStore, Data Domain, and backup platforms, plus scripting in Python or Ansible.