Senior Data Storage and Back-up Engineer (Work From Home)

Overview

Drive innovation in cybersecurity, software development, and big data technology as part of our award-winning IT team. You can play a critical role as part of a global agile team for Bell Canada, Canada’s largest telco, media, and tech company. We know our success is fueled by our people, so we empower our Qmunity and provide a workplace where you can flourish and grow.

We offer premium benefits, including:

• Home-based Setup
• Miscellaneous allowances, performance-based bonus, and yearly increase
• HMO from day 1 for you + 2 free dependents
• 6 months paid maternity/ 15-days paternity leave
• Company-sponsored training and upskilling, and career growth opportunities!

Responsibilities

• Managing the end-to-end lifecycle of storage infrastructure, including the deployment, operation, maintenance, and migration of SAN environments
• Perform the technology watch; contribute to the strategy and evolution of existing services, as well as future architecture evolution around communication platforms.
• Support and manage various Netbackup storage products.
• Implement multiprotocol environments like FC, iSCSI, NFS and CIFS in NetApp NAS environment.
• Manage and troubleshoot backup operations (day to day), perform root cause analysis for backup issues, hands-on experience with troubleshooting on restores
• Migrate data for various hosts like Solaris, AIX, Linux and windows hosts.
• Work with systems administrators to troubleshoot related storage problems or performance.
• Perform storage allocations, LUN masking, and data migrations.
• Perform performance monitoring on storage and set up alerts & notification.
• Develop, update, and implement CLI scripts for Netbackup, and fiber switch configuration and administration.
• Participate in planning and implementation of storage array changes including firmware version, and storage virtualization.
• Define requirements and specifications with internal groups in an Agile setting (Epics and User Stories)

Qualifications

Core Competencies

• 7 years of hands-on experience in enterprise-level data storage technologies including ONTAP, Hitachi, StorageGRID, and SAN BROCADE (focusing on FC networking).
• 7 years of experience in backup and recovery solutions using NetBackup and Commvault, ensuring data integrity and compliance across enterprise environments.
• 7 years of experience in managing technical operations and administration in IT data storage and backup, optimizing performance, availability, and scalability.
• 7 years of experience in deploying and maintaining multiprotocol environments such as FC, iSCSI, NFS, and CIFS, particularly within NetApp NAS systems.
• 5 years of general networking experience.

Complementary Competencies

• Working knowledge of VMware, OpenStack, and Kubernetes (K8s) for virtualization and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with Python scripting and database systems such as MS SQL and Oracle DB for automation and data management tasks.
• Experience using Jira for issue tracking and project management in agile environments.

QUALIFICATIONS

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.

Work Conditions

• Work From Home Set-up
• Open for Night Shift (8PM to 5AM) or Mid Shift (4PM to 1AM)