Storage & Backup Engineer

Trigyn; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Trigyn is seeking an experienced Storage & Backup Engineer for a remote contract role. The ideal candidate will design, implement and optimize enterprise storage and backup environments, and collaborate with internal teams to ensure data protection and high availability.

Candidates should demonstrate hands-on expertise across NetApp, Dell PowerStore, Dell ECS, and Veeam, with strong scripting capabilities. The position requires leadership in incident resolution, DR testing, and the ability to

Qualifications

• 8+ years in enterprise storage and backup environments.
• Experience administering block and file storage systems across multiple vendors.
• Strong problem-solving skills and proactive service improvements.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement storage and backup architectures aligned with availability and security needs.
• Administer SAN fabrics, backup platforms, and replication.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis and preventive actions.
• Perform restores, DR testing, and recovery exercises.
• Develop scripts to automate provisioning, monitoring and reporting.

Skills

Storage Architecture

Backup Management

Disaster Recovery

Scripting (Python, Ansible, Terraform)

SAN Fabric

Networking Knowledge

Education

IT diploma

Industry certs in Storage/Cloud

Tools

NetApp

Dell PowerStore

Dell ECS

Veeam Backup & Replication

Data Domain

Cisco/Brocade switches

Job description

Trigyn has a contractual opportunity for an Storage & Backup Engineer. This resource will be working Remotely.

Job Description:

The ideal candidate is an experienced Storage and Backup Engineer with at least 8 years of handson experience in supporting, designing, managing and optimizing enterprise storage and backup environments. The candidate will work under the guidance of the Team Lead, Infrastructure Operations, and collaborate with other support teams. The candidate is expected to demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, a proactive approach to service improvements and the ability to work independently while supporting a team-oriented environment.

Scope of Work / Duties of Consultant:

• Provide engineering expertise and day-to-day administration of the organization’s storage and backup infrastructure, including the following duties:
• 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.

Required Technical Skills:

The resource MUST have the following skills and experience:

• 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
• Extensive hands-on experience in the administration and troubleshooting of block and file storage systems across multiple vendor platforms (e.g., NetApp, Dell PowerStore, Dell ECS systems)
• Excellent knowledge in the installation and administration of Enterprise Backup systems (e.g., DELL Avamar, PPDM, Data Domain, Veeam B&R and other market leaders in backup solutions)
• Expert-level troubleshooting and problem resolution for storage and backup infrastructures.
• Solid understanding and knowledge of storage technologies (Cisco/Brocade Fabric switches, VSANs, WWPNs, NPIV, multipathing, Fibre channel, iSCSI)
• Strong understanding of data protection, disaster recovery, and best practices in backup and storage management.
• Good understanding and knowledge of networking technologies
• Working Experience in shell scripting and automation tools (e.g., Python, Ansible, Terraform)
• Ability to work under pressure with minimum supervision
• Customer-centric approach to delivery and problem solving
• Good knowledge of ITIL service management methodology

The resource SHOULD have the following skills and experience:

• Experience with Hyper Converged Infrastructure or Software Defined Storage solutions is an advantage
• Good presentation skills and ability to convey complex technical information to non-technical audience
• Experience with service reporting and business analytics
• Experience with cloud storage solutions (e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage)
• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V)

Desirable certifications:

• IT diploma
• Industry-recognized certifications in Storage, Backup, or Cloud Technologies.
• Certifications in any programming language or scripting framework (e.g., Python, Ansible, PowerShell).
• ITIL, ISO20000, PRINCE2 certifications

TRIGYN TECHNOLOGIES is a multinational IT services company with resources deployed in 50 countries. TRIGYN is an ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2022 (ISMS) and CMMI Level 5 certified company. TRIGYN has offices in the United States, Canada, Switzerland and India.