Join Verdantas – A Top #ENR 81 Firm,
We are seeking for a Backup and Storage engineer to join our team in Pune.
Key Responsibilities
Backup & Recovery Management
- Conduct regular, scheduled recovery tests of files, applications, databases, and full systems to validate data integrity and meet Recovery Time (RTO) and Recovery Point (RPO) objectives
- Administer cloud-based backup solutions and ensure efficient replication to disaster recovery sites.
- Perform daily monitoring of backup jobs, promptly investigating and resolving any failures or issues.
SAN & NAS
- Provision, configure, and maintain enterprise storage arrays
- Create and allocate LUNs, volumes, and file shares based on application and user requirements.
- Implement and manage storage replication technologies (synchronous/asynchronous) for disaster recovery.
Performance, Capacity, and Optimization:
- Proactively monitor storage and backup infrastructure performance and capacity.
Generate and analyze reports to forecast future needs.
- Recommend and implement optimizations to improve efficiency, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
- Perform data deduplication, compression, and tiering strategies to optimize storage utilization.
Security and Compliance:
· Ensure all backup and storage systems are hardened and configured according to security best practices.
· Maintain and test data retention policies to comply with legal, regulatory, and organizational requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOX).
· Manage access controls and permissions for storage resources.
Documentation and Process Improvement:
· Create and maintain detailed, accurate documentation for system configurations, architectures, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and recovery runbooks.
· Develop and automate routine tasks through scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bash).
· Participate in the IT change management process.
Support and Collaboration:
- Serve as the final point of escalation for troubleshooting complex backup and storage-related issues.
- Collaborate with system administrators, network engineers, and application teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Provide on-call support as part of a rotation for critical issues outside business hours.
Experience: 4-8 years