Senior Storage & Backup
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About the Role
VaporVM is seeking a Senior Storage & Backup Engineer in Riyadh with 10+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise storage, backup, and disaster recovery.
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Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage enterprise SAN, NAS, object storage, and software defined storage platforms
- Administer Dell EMC PowerScale environments including OneFS, SmartPools, SmartQuotas, SyncIQ, and multi protocol access services
- Implement and support scalable object storage solutions using Dell EMC ECS and MinIO
- Configure and optimize Dell EMC Data Domain environments including deduplication, replication, and DDBoost integration
- Manage and optimize Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade platforms for high performance workloads
- Design and support DDN storage solutions for HPC, AI, and data intensive environments
- Deploy and maintain Lustre and Ceph clusters ensuring high availability, scalability, and operational efficiency
- Integrate storage solutions with VMware vSphere and SRM supporting replication, snapshots, and disaster recovery
- Monitor storage performance, capacity utilization, throughput, latency, and system health
- Develop and implement backup, replication, business continuity, and disaster recovery strategies
- Automate operational tasks and optimize storage management processes through scripting and orchestration tools
- Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex storage and data protection issues
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands on experience in enterprise storage, backup, and disaster recovery
- Proven expertise across multiple storage vendors and technologies
- Strong knowledge of traditional, software defined, and distributed storage architectures
- Experience supporting large scale, high performance workloads including HPC, AI, and analytics
- Deep understanding of data protection, replication, business continuity, and disaster recovery frameworks
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and performance optimization skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities in Arabic and English
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Position Overview
- We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Storage & Backup Engineer with deep expertise in designing, implementing, and managing enterprise scale storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions across multi vendor environments.
Core Technical Expertise
- Enterprise Storage Platforms: Dell EMC ECS, PowerScale, Data Domain; Pure Storage FlashArray & FlashBlade; DDN SFA, EXAScaler, and A3I
- Software Defined & Distributed Storage: Lustre Parallel File System, Ceph (RBD, CephFS, RGW), MinIO Object Storage
- Backup, DR & Virtualization: VMware vSphere, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), Veeam Backup & Replication
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage enterprise SAN, NAS, object storage, and software defined storage platforms.
- Administer Dell EMC PowerScale environments, including OneFS, SmartPools, SmartQuotas, SyncIQ, and multi protocol access services.
- Implement and support scalable object storage solutions using Dell EMC ECS and MinIO.
- Configure and optimize Dell EMC Data Domain environments, including deduplication, replication, and DDBoost integration.
- Manage and optimize Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade platforms for high performance workloads.
- Design and support DDN storage solutions for HPC, AI, and data intensive environments.
- Deploy and maintain Lustre and Ceph clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Integrate storage solutions with VMware vSphere and SRM, supporting replication, snapshots, and disaster recovery requirements.
- Monitor storage performance, capacity utilization, throughput, latency, and system health.
- Develop and implement backup, replication, business continuity, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Automate operational tasks and optimize storage management processes through scripting and orchestration tools.
- Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex storage and data protection issues.
Candidate Profile
- 10+ years of hands on experience in enterprise storage, backup, and disaster recovery environments.
- Proven expertise across multiple storage vendors and technologies.
- Strong knowledge of traditional, software defined, and distributed storage architectures.
- Experience supporting large scale, high performance workloads, including HPC, AI, and analytics platforms.
- Deep understanding of data protection, replication, business continuity, and disaster recovery frameworks.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and performance optimization skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities in Arabic and English.
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