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Storage & Backup Engineer

Spektrum72 open roles

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Spektrum median: 15 days open

The posting

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting

At Spektrum, we support a wide range of NATO organizations and programmes by providing highly skilled professionals across defence, security, digital transformation, engineering, and information technology. Our teams contribute to projects that strengthen the Alliance's operational readiness, enhance interoperability between member nations, and enable the delivery of critical capabilities across land, air, maritime, cyber, and space domains.

For this opportunity, our client is a private technology company that delivers advanced IT and engineering services in support of NATO programmes. Working alongside NATO stakeholders, the company provides technical expertise, software development, systems integration, and digital solutions that help modernize and sustain mission-critical capabilities. As part of this project, consultants will contribute to the development and support of technologies that underpin NATO's operational effectiveness and long-term digital transformation.

Storage & Backup Engineer

Role ID: TG-001-2

Role Background

The ideal candidate is an experienced Storage and Backup Engineer with at least 8 years of hands-on 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.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

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.

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

Essential Skills:

  • 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.

Desirable Skills:

  • 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

Working Location:

  • Valencia, Spain and Brindisi, Italy
  • Remote work is restricted to Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Portugal, Greece, Slovakia and Bulgaria.
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