Infrastructure & Data Protection Engineer (NAS, VMware, Commvault, NetBackup, Disaster Recovery)

Responsibilities

• Administer enterprise storage environments, including SAN/NAS storage provisioning, capacity expansion, connectivity management, and performance optimization.
• Manage VMware virtualization infrastructure, including ESXi hosts, vCenter, vSAN clusters, virtual machine provisioning, and resource allocation.
• Configure and maintain storage connectivity between virtualization hosts and storage systems using iSCSI and Fibre Channel technologies.
• Monitor storage utilization, datastore capacity, infrastructure health, and performance metrics to identify and resolve potential bottlenecks.
• Manage enterprise backup solutions, including backup scheduling, policy configuration, job monitoring, retention management, and restoration activities.
• Troubleshoot backup failures, validate data integrity, and perform periodic recovery tests to ensure the availability of critical business data.
• Implement and maintain disaster recovery solutions using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) or Azure Site Recovery.
• Execute replication monitoring, recovery plan validation, and disaster recovery failover/failback testing in line with defined RPO and RTO targets.
• Perform VMware infrastructure maintenance, including virtual machine migrations, snapshot management, cluster maintenance, patching, and upgrades.
• Conduct infrastructure troubleshooting and root-cause analysis to resolve recurring storage, virtualization, backup, and recovery issues.
• Support infrastructure changes, firmware maintenance, and lifecycle activities while minimizing disruption to production workloads.
• Maintain technical documentation, including storage configurations, backup procedures, disaster recovery plans, operational runbooks, and incident records.
• Collaborate with server, network, application, and security teams to resolve cross-functional infrastructure issues.
• Monitor infrastructure availability and capacity, identify potential risks, and recommend improvements to reliability and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in IT infrastructure, VMware administration, storage management, enterprise backup, and disaster recovery.
• Strong hands-on experience in SAN/NAS Storage Administration, including storage provisioning, capacity management, datastore expansion, and performance troubleshooting.
• Practical experience administering VMware ESXi, vCenter, and vSAN, including virtual machine operations, cluster management, and shared storage environments.
• Experience with at least one enterprise backup platform: Veeam, Commvault, or Veritas NetBackup, covering backup policy management, job troubleshooting, retention, and restoration.
• Hands-on experience with Disaster Recovery solutions, preferably VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) or Azure Site Recovery, including replication management and failover/failback testing.
• Experience with iSCSI, Fibre Channel, storage connectivity, and virtualized infrastructure dependencies.
• Experience in backup validation, recovery procedures, RPO/RTO concepts, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Experience in enterprise production support, incident management, root-cause analysis, and change management.
• Experience in HPE server infrastructure, hardware lifecycle management, and firmware compatibility is an advantage.
• Experience in infrastructure automation or scripting using PowerShell, PowerCLI, or Python is desirable.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-team coordination skills.Experience supporting enterprise VMware and storage environments in production.
• Experience in infrastructure monitoring, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Microsoft Azure certification is preferred.