storage & backup engineer - athens - northern suburbs

Are you an experienced Storage & Backup Engineer with experience in designing storage, SAN and backup strategies at an enterprise level? Would you be interested in working for one of the most well-known software houses in Greece, and drive your technical knowledge to the next level? Then, this opportunity is for you!

The Storage & Backup Engineer position is full time and permanent, based in Athens' northern suburbs. Remote work may be provided.

The company offers for the Storage & Backup Engineer position:

• Competitive salary package
• Private life and medical plan
• Laptop and mobile phone
• Professional trainings & certifications
• Hybrid working model
• Great working environment & teams to work with
• Projects in large clients
• Further career opportunities

As Storage & Backup Engineer, you will join the Infrastructure team and will be responsible for developing and implementing key strategies and plans concerning Data Storage and Backup, taking into consideration all available technologies and business requirements. It will be responsible for the design, installation, monitoring and maintenance of the company's clients storage and backup infrastructure, and for providing it with the correct levels of maintenance.

• Designing, implementing, and providing support of the Storage & Backup Infrastructure
• Creating and maintaining storage infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools that include virtual storage tools and services
• Provisioning and configuring required storage & backup for servers
• Evaluating, improving, and maintaining the information security throughout the storage & backup infrastructure
• Handling critical storage issues, creating recovery processes for hardware failures and performance bottlenecks, configuring alerts for proactive response times
• Installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining system management tools, SAN and Tape infrastructure and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions
• Proactively ensuring the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability including verification of the replicated data, fail over copies and redundant data sets
• Liaising with vendors and other departments for problem resolution
• Ensuring technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date on a monthly interval
• Providing on demand reporting of storage provisioned and utilized resources
• Second level support for troubleshooting, problem escalation and resolution post implementation

In order for your profile to match the Storage & Backup Engineer position, you need to have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Previous experience of designing storage, SAN and backup strategies at an enterprise level
• Excellent knowledge on Storage /Backup procedures / SAN / Tape Libraries
• Should have strong technical experience integrating backup software with applications
• Experience on Dell EMC Networker/Veeam Suite/IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
• Experience with VMware products will be considered a strong plus
• DELL EMC/HPE/IBM H/W Training & Certification will be considered a plus

• Communication skills
• Team player
• Problem-solving skills
• Desire to improve skills, processes and procedures
• Learn quickly and understand complex systems
• Time management
• Work both independently and in a team

Previous experience of designing storage, SAN and backup strategies at an enterprise level

If this Storage & Backup Engineer vacancy sounds like you, apply now!

Have some questions first? Contact Konstantina at +30 216 6001379 from Monday to Friday between 10:00 and 16:00. Otherwise, feel free to contact me at kkiousi@randstad.gr

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