Backup And Storage Engineer

Job Description Backup & Storage Administrator Lead

Role

Backup & Storage Administrator Lead

Experience

6–10 years

Location

ICC Mumbai – Yantra Park, Thane

Required Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of storage and backup fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with NetApp, Pure Storage, HP 3PAR, and Veeam Backup.
• Experience/exposure to Brocade switches and Cisco SAN switches.
• Good troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to work in a 24x7 support environment.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Knowledge of Tiered Storage, Thin Provisioning, Snapshots, Clones, and Storage Replication.
• Knowledge of Unix OS administration and Logical Volume Management (LVM).
• Basic understanding of networking concepts.
• Relevant certifications are an advantage.
• Good communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

1. Configure servers and databases for backup.
2. Perform patching and upgrades of backup tools.
3. Provision storage from SAN, NAS, and iSCSI storage systems.
4. Perform SAN zoning and maintain storage configuration backups.
5. Prepare storage allocation reports, perform capacity planning, and maintain documentation.
6. Monitor storage systems and troubleshoot performance and availability issues.
7. Perform firmware upgrades on storage systems and SAN switches.
8. Coordinate with vendors to resolve backup and storage-related issues.

Role Overview

The candidate will work across multiple client environments and get exposure to different storage platforms and vendors, including EMC, IBM, Dell, HP, and Oracle.

The role involves providing shared IT infrastructure support to multiple clients in a 24x7 operational environment.

Target Companies / Candidate Sources

Potential candidate sources include:

• EMC
• IBM
• HP
• Storage technology channel partners
• Wipro
• HCL

Storage Administration – Interview Focus

1. What are the different types of storage protocols?

Block storage includes SAN, which can use protocols such as FC-SCSI, iSCSI, and FCoE.

File storage includes NAS, which commonly uses protocols such as NFS.

2. What is Storage Zoning and LUN Masking?

Storage zoning involves controlling communication between server ports and storage controllers through SAN switches.

LUN masking is the process of presenting a specific LUN to a particular host or group of hosts from the storage system.

3. What is the difference between LUN Cloning and LUN Snapshots?

A LUN clone is an exact copy of the source LUN and can consume storage space equivalent to the source.

A snapshot is a point-in-time representation of the source LUN that tracks changes using a copy-on-write mechanism. Snapshots depend on the original LUN, whereas clones can function as independent copies.