Technical Lead

SKILL 1 : Cohesity
SKILL 2 : SQL DB
SKILL 3 : Zerto

POSITION OVERVIEW

• Tech Lead - Storage, Cohesity, SQL, and Zerto
  Position Title
  Tech Lead - Storage
  Location
  [Insert Location / Remote / Hybrid]
  Employment Type
  [Full-Time / Contract / Contract-to-Hire]
  Department
  Infrastructure Services / Enterprise Storage / Data Protection / IT Operations
  
  Role Summary
  We are seeking an experienced Tech Lead - Storage to provide technical leadership, hands-on engineering, and operational ownership for enterprise storage, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Cohesity , SQL Server backup and recovery , and Zerto for disaster recovery and replication.
  This role will lead storage and data protection initiatives across enterprise infrastructure environments, ensuring high availability, recoverability, performance, security, and operational stability. The Tech Lead will work closely with infrastructure, database, virtualization, cloud, cybersecurity, application, and operations teams to support business-critical systems and ensure storage, backup, and disaster recovery services meet enterprise requirements.
  

  
  Key Responsibilities
  Technical Leadership and Storage Engineering
  

  • Serve as the technical lead for enterprise storage, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery services.
  • Lead the design, implementation, administration, and support of storage and data protection platforms.
  • Provide hands-on technical guidance to infrastructure engineers, operations teams, and project teams.
  • Evaluate current storage architecture and recommend improvements for scalability, performance, resiliency, and cost optimization.
  • Support enterprise storage platforms across SAN, NAS, object storage, and cloud-integrated storage environments.
  • Lead technical troubleshooting for storage performance, capacity, replication, backup, restore, and recovery issues.
  • Participate in architecture reviews, infrastructure planning, capacity forecasting, and technology roadmap discussions.
  • Ensure storage services are aligned with business continuity, security, compliance, and operational requirements.
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    Cohesity Responsibilities
    

    • Administer and support Cohesity backup, recovery, replication, and data protection environments.
    • Configure and manage protection policies, protection groups, backup jobs, retention policies, replication jobs, and recovery workflows.
    • Perform backup and restore operations for virtual machines, physical servers, databases, file shares, and application workloads.
    • Monitor Cohesity cluster health, storage utilization, deduplication, compression, job success rates, and platform performance.
    • Troubleshoot failed backup jobs, restore failures, connectivity issues, agent issues, and policy misconfigurations.
    • Support immutable backup, ransomware recovery, cyber resilience, and data protection best practices.
    • Assist with Cohesity upgrades, patching, capacity expansion, and lifecycle management.
    • Develop backup reporting, recovery validation, and audit-ready documentation.
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      Zerto Disaster Recovery Responsibilities
      

      • Administer and support Zerto for disaster recovery, replication, failover, failback, and recovery testing.
      • Configure and manage Virtual Protection Groups, recovery points, journals, replication policies, and recovery plans.
      • Coordinate disaster recovery testing with infrastructure, application, database, and business teams.
      • Perform planned migrations, failover testing, unplanned failover support, and failback activities.
      • Monitor replication health, RPO status, journal usage, alerts, and recovery readiness.
      • Troubleshoot Zerto replication, network, journal, VMware, storage, and recovery workflow issues.
      • Maintain DR runbooks, recovery procedures, application dependency maps, and test evidence.
      • Ensure disaster recovery capabilities align with business-defined RPO and RTO requirements.
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        SQL Server Backup and Recovery Responsibilities
        

        • Partner with database teams to support SQL Server backup, recovery, and data protection requirements.
        • Ensure SQL databases are properly protected through backup policies, recovery schedules, retention standards, and restore procedures.
        • Support SQL-aware backup and recovery workflows using Cohesity or other enterprise backup tools.
        • Assist with database restore requests, point-in-time recovery coordination, and recovery validation.
        • Understand SQL Server backup types, including full, differential, and transaction log backups.
        • Support backup and recovery considerations for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, clustered SQL environments, and critical database workloads.
        • Collaborate with DBAs to validate backup integrity, restore testing, and disaster recovery readiness.
        • Help troubleshoot backup failures related to SQL permissions, VSS, agents, connectivity, storage capacity, and database configuration.
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          Storage Operations and Support
          

          • Manage storage provisioning, allocation, expansion, reclamation, monitoring, and performance tuning.
          • Support storage protocols and technologies such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, object storage, snapshots, replication, and tiering.
          • Monitor storage capacity, latency, throughput, IOPS, availability, and utilization trends.
          • Respond to storage-related incidents, service requests, alerts, and escalations.
          • Participate in root cause analysis for storage, backup, restore, and DR-related incidents.
          • Coordinate planned maintenance, upgrades, patching, firmware updates, and change activities.

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