Storage & Backup Engineer (Remote)

Role overview Design, operate, and improve enterprise storage and backup services, supporting both infrastructure teams and partner organizations. The work spans architecture, implementation, daily administration, incident response, and recovery planning, with a focus on keeping data services secure, available, performant, and recoverable.

Responsibilities - Design storage and backup solutions around availability, capacity, recovery, security, and service needs. - Administer storage arrays, SAN fabrics, and backup platforms, including provisioning, host integration, schedules, retention, and replication. - Plan and carry out installations, upgrades, migrations, capacity expansions, and proof-of-concept work, with validation and rollback plans. - Monitor performance, capacity, system health, and backup results; resolve incidents and lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions. - Run restore tests and support disaster-recovery exercises; maintain security controls, technical records, runbooks, and recovery procedures. - Automate routine operations and coordinate complex maintenance or delivery work with vendors and internal teams.

Requirements - At least 8 years managing and configuring enterprise storage and backup services in complex, mixed environments. - Hands-on administration and troubleshooting of block and file storage across multiple platforms. - Strong experience with enterprise backup systems and storage networking, including Fibre Channel or iSCSI, fabrics, multipathing, and related concepts. - Knowledge of data protection, disaster recovery, networking, and IT service management practices. - Scripting or automation experience with shell tools, Python, Ansible, or Terraform. - Able to troubleshoot complex issues independently, work under pressure, and take a service-focused approach. - Professional English proficiency; Spanish is a plus.

Nice to have - Experience with hyper-converged or software-defined storage, cloud object storage, or VMware or Hyper-V. - Relevant storage, backup, cloud, scripting, ITIL, ISO 20000, or project management certifications. - Ability to explain technical topics to non-technical audiences and experience with service reporting.

Benefits and work setup - Work remotely up to five days per week from Southern or Eastern Europe; listed locations include Valencia, Spain, and Brindisi, Italy. - Rotating on-call coverage is approximately one week per month. The listing describes overtime rates and says time off may be agreed as an alternative.