Storage & Backup Infrastructure Engineer

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*** We will NOT work with C2C/3rd Party Agencies for ANY reason***

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JOB DETAILS:

Position: Storage & Backup Infrastructure Engineer

Job Ref #: 45042

Duration: 12+ Months (On-going Contract)

Location: HYBRID - Greensboro, NC 27409

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

RESPONSIBILITES 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

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

• 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, 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

access-management processes.

• 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

of service concerns to management.

• Maintain runbooks, architecture documentation, evidence, cross-training, and secondary coverage for compute recovery and DR exercises.

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

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Calance Benefits Offerings:

- EPO/PPO Medical Plans

- HMO/PPO Dental programs

- Vision - VSP (Vision Plan Summary)

- 401K Retirement vesting program (VOYA)

- Paid Bi-Weekly/Direct Deposit

- Flex Spending Plan

- Voluntary Life, AD&D, STD or LTD plans

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