The Enterprise Storage and Backup Lead provides Level 3 support for enterprise storage, backup, and SAN environments, ensuring high availability, performance, and data protection across critical systems. This role involves administering Fibre Channel SAN fabrics, monitoring and optimizing storage performance, and deploying and maintaining backup and recovery solutions.
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Job Description
Duration: 6+ months Contract-to-Hire
Location: On-site 3 days/week in Cincinnati, OH
Compensation: $65-75/hr (converting to $80-105k/yr + Bonus + Benefits)
Relocation Accepted: Yes
***U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor or transfer visas at this time.***
***No Vendors/3rd parties.***
Overview:
The Storage & Backup Lead provides Level 3 support for enterprise storage, backup, and SAN environments, ensuring high availability, performance, and data protection across critical systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide L3 support for enterprise storage platforms (EMC Unity, PMAX, VNX; NetApp; IBM; QNAP).
- Administer Fibre Channel SAN fabrics, including zoning, upgrades, and switch maintenance.
- Monitor and optimize storage performance, capacity, and replication.
- Troubleshoot and resolve storage issues to ensure high availability.
- Deploy and maintain backup and recovery solutions (DataDomain, Rubrik, NetBackup, Veeam, Avamar).
- Define and test backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures.
- Support VMware NSX and SD-WAN environments.
- Maintain system documentation and produce operational reports.
- Strong hands-on experience with EMC (Unity, PMAX, VNX), NetApp, and IBM storage.
- Solid understanding of high availability, disk technologies, RAID, and failover.
- Experience with CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel protocols.
- Experience creating host groups, LUN masking, zoning, storage pools, and tiering.
- Hands-on experience with Brocade and Cisco SAN switches.
- Experience installing, configuring, and managing storage arrays and fabrics.
- Familiarity with ITIL-based operational environments.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and time management skills.
- Experience with QNAP.
- Relevant storage or infrastructure certifications.
- Ability to support a 24x7 environment, including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.
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