Storage & Backup Infrastructure Engineer

Calance; Greensboro (NC); Hybrid; USD 192,864,000 - 234,192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EPO/PPO Medical Plans

401K Retirement vesting program (VOYA)

Flex Spending Plan

Voluntary Life, AD&D, STD or LTD plans

Job summary

Calance is seeking a Senior Data Platform Administrator to manage enterprise storage, data-protection, and DR readiness across Dell Technologies platforms. The role requires hands-on leadership for SAN/NAS/backup, Cisco NX-OS, AWS storage services, and automation, with on-site work Monday through Thursday and a hybrid environment.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years in enterprise infrastructure, strong experience with Dell storage products, Cisco SAN, and backup/recovery platforms, plus

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive enterprise infrastructure experience.
• 5+ years administering SAN, NAS, or block-storage platforms.
• 5+ years administering enterprise backup/recovery platforms.
• Advanced experience with one or more Dell Technologies platforms such as PowerStore, Isilon/OneFS, Avamar, or Data Domain.
• Advanced Cisco SAN switching/NX-OS experience.
• Strong knowledge of zoning, provisioning, replication, storage networking, performance, capacity, lifecycle, and recovery validation.

Responsibilities

• Own SAN, NAS, block-storage, backup, monitoring, automation, and infrastructure-service operations, lifecycle, availability, and technical standards, including platform decommissioning.
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, RCA, backup/recovery validation, vulnerability remediation, and service restoration for assigned platforms.
• Perform and coordinate hands-on data-center infrastructure work for assigned platforms, including hardware installation and removal, rack/stack, cabling, diagnostics, parts replacement, RMA activity, remote hands, vendor coordination, and technical decommissioning.
• Administer monitoring and event-management capabilities, alert quality, automation, scripting, configuration-management tools, version control, and storage-related AWS services; coordinate storage and backup integrations with operating systems.
• Provide technical oversight of vendor/MSP support concerns and project delivery, including case initiation, troubleshooting coordination, escalation, resolution validation, validation of changes and operational deliverables, and communication.
• Maintain runbooks, architecture documentation, evidence, cross-training, and secondary coverage for compute recovery and DR exercises.

Skills

Dell Technologies platforms

Cisco SAN switching/NX-OS

VMware vSphere

Automation scripting

Backup/Recovery

Tools

PowerStore

Isilon/OneFS

Avamar

Data Domain

Ansible

Grafana

Icinga

AWS storage services

VMware

Job description

JOB DETAILS:

Job Ref #: 45042

Duration: 12+ Months (On-going Contract)

Pay Rate: $74.00 per hour (W2 ONLY)

HYBRID: Must work ONSITE MON-THUR (Onsite interview required)

HIRING REQUIREMENTS:

** NOT accepting any 3rd Party C2C candidates for any reason**

** NOT accepting candidates willing to relocate (LOCAL CANDIDATES Only)

Senior Data Platform Administrator is accountable for the reliable operation, lifecycle management, security, resilience, and continuous improvement of enterprise storage, data-protection, monitoring, automation, and supporting infrastructure-service platforms for the environment.

DAILY TASKS:

• Provide hands-on engineering leadership across Dell Technologies storage and data-protection platforms, Cisco SAN switching and NX-OS, infrastructure monitoring, automation and scripting tools, and storage-related AWS services.
• Provides backup and recovery validation, storage capacity and performance, monitoring quality, support of disaster-recovery exercises, and support tooling not assigned to the compute role.
• Provides secondary coverage for compute recovery, storage integration, and disaster-recovery exercises within global standards, ITSM controls, vulnerability and patch programs, and governance expectations

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Own SAN, NAS, block-storage, backup, monitoring, automation, and infrastructure-service operations, lifecycle, availability, and technical standards, including platform decommissioning.
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, RCA, backup/recovery validation, vulnerability remediation, and service restoration for assigned platforms.
• Perform and coordinate hands-on data-center infrastructure work for assigned platforms, including hardware installation and removal, rack/stack, cabling, diagnostics, parts replacement, RMA activity, remote hands, vendor coordination, and
• Administer monitoring and event-management capabilities, alert quality, automation, scripting, configuration-management tools, version control, and storage-related AWS services; coordinate storage and backup integrations with operating
• Provide technical oversight of vendor/MSP support concerns and project delivery, including case initiation, troubleshooting coordination, escalation, resolution validation, validation of changes and operational deliverables, and communication
• Maintain runbooks, architecture documentation, evidence, cross-training, and secondary coverage for compute recovery and DR exercises.

technical decommissioning. Plan and execute storage and backup upgrades, capacity and performance reviews, replication, recovery tests, and corrective actions.

systems, database systems, directory services, virtualization platforms, security tools, and applications. Administer and maintain platform-specific access controls for assigned infrastructure in accordance with security and

of service concerns to management.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE/SKILLS:

• 10+ years of progressive enterprise infrastructure experience.
• 5+ years administering enterprise SAN, NAS, or block-storage platforms
• 5+ years administering enterprise backup/recovery platforms.
• Advanced experience with one or more Dell Technologies platforms such as PowerStore, Isilon/OneFS, Avamar, or Data Domain
• Advanced Cisco SAN switching/NX-OS experience.
• Strong knowledge of zoning, provisioning, replication, storage networking, performance, capacity, lifecycle, and recovery validation.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and event-management capabilities, such as Icinga, Grafana, or comparable monitoring platforms.
• Experience with automation, scripting, or configuration-management tools such as Ansible or comparable infrastructure tooling.
• Working knowledge of enterprise operating systems and compute platforms: VMware vSphere, Windows Server, Linux, Cisco UCS, Nutanix, and AWS; VMware vSphere administration experience. Any storage and backup integrations, is strongly
• preferred.
• Experience with ITSM, 24x7 operations, change control, patching, vulnerability remediation, major incidents, and RCA.
• Strong preparation and presentation skills for upper Management Levels as well as stakeholder’s status reports

Calance Benefits Offerings:

• - EPO/PPO Medical Plans
• - 401K Retirement vesting program (VOYA)
• - Flex Spending Plan
• - Voluntary Life, AD&D, STD or LTD plans