Senior SAN Storage Administrator

• Lead, mentor, and develop the Storage and Backup team, managing priorities, on-call coverage, and escalations.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations, monitoring, performance, and overall health of the PowerMax and PowerStore storage environments.
• Manage storage provisioning, capacity planning, performance optimization, upgrades, and migration activities.
• Own and manage the backup and data protection environment across PPDM, Commvault, and Data Domain.
• Ensure backup and recovery operations meet defined RPO and RTO requirements, including regular recovery testing and validation.
• Lead disaster recovery planning, testing, and coordination during incidents and recovery scenarios.
• Ensure compliance with applicable security, data retention, and ransomware resilience requirements.
• Drive automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives, while providing management with regular reports on capacity, utilization, SLAs, and overall service performance.
• 4+ Years in similar role.
• Expert hands-on experience with Dell PowerMax and PowerStore storage arrays.
• Strong experience with Power Protect Data Manager (PPDM), Commvault, and Dell Data Domain.
• Solid knowledge of SAN/NAS (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB), replication, and DR concepts.
• Familiarity with virtualization (VMware) and its storage integration.
• Strong leadership, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Preferred

• Relevant Dell Technologies certifications and VMware certification (VCP).
• Scripting/automation experience (PowerShell, Python).
• Experience with immutable/air-gapped backups and ransomware recovery.
• Familiarity with ITIL processes.