Senior Storage Backup Engineer
DXC Technology
Date: 23 hours ago
City: Riyadh
Contract type: Full time

Responsibilities
Job Description:
Recruitment fraud is a scheme in which fictitious job opportunities are offered to job seekers typically through online services, such as false websites, or through unsolicited emails claiming to be from the company. These emails may request recipients to provide personal information or to make payments as part of their illegitimate recruiting process. DXC does not make offers of employment via social media networks and DXC never asks for any money or payments from applicants at any point in the recruitment process, nor ask a job seeker to purchase IT or other equipment on our behalf. More information on employment scams is available here.
Job Description:
- Strong understanding of storage technologies (SAN, NAS, cloud storage), operating systems, networking concepts, and backup solutions.
- Perform installation, implementation of storage systems, and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) from vendors such as Dell, IBM and HPE.
- Assist in the deployment and configuration of virtualization environments.
- manages and maintains an organization's data storage systems, includes ensuring data availability, integrity, and security through various tasks like configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting storage hardware and software.
- Ensure all backup solutions are logging, alerting and notifications are enabled/configured along with monitoring the completion/failure of all backup schedules.
- Working with other IT teams (network, database, application) to ensure efficient data storage and retrieval.
- Manage and operate backup solutions including job creation, monitoring, and basic troubleshooting.
- Collaborate with senior engineers to support and maintain data center infrastructure.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including Low-Level Design (LLD) and As-Built documentation.
- Support day-to-day data center operations, including equipment racking, cabling, and hardware maintenance.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals and data center operations.
- Ensure backup solution Disaster Readiness, backups availability and backup operations functionality in Disaster recovery situations.
- Work with the application stakeholders to define the backup policies, recovery objective, backup schedules and recovery time intended for each application & provide support to the applications different teams during projects and implementations
- Apply technology best practices, upgrades, apply vendor recommendations, & service and operation level agreements (SLA/OLA), in addition to abiding to target Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Follow best practices and procedures to ensure a secure, stable, and high-performing environment.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Typically, 5+ years of relevant work experience in industry, with a minimum of 2 years in a similar role
- Proven experience in infrastructure technology analysis
- Proficiencies in data analysis and problem-solving
- A continuous learner that stays abreast with industry knowledge and technology
- An advanced degree in a relevant field is a plus.
- Candidates must have strong working knowledge of Dell PowerMax, ScaleIO, Isilon, Dell Data Protection, Data Domain (incl. CRS).
- Relevant storage and backup or infrastructure certifications are a strong advantage.
- Relevant certifications, such as Cisco CCNA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or CompTIA Security+, are a plus.
Recruitment fraud is a scheme in which fictitious job opportunities are offered to job seekers typically through online services, such as false websites, or through unsolicited emails claiming to be from the company. These emails may request recipients to provide personal information or to make payments as part of their illegitimate recruiting process. DXC does not make offers of employment via social media networks and DXC never asks for any money or payments from applicants at any point in the recruitment process, nor ask a job seeker to purchase IT or other equipment on our behalf. More information on employment scams is available here.
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