Storage & Backup Administrator

Expleo is a global engineering, technology, and consulting service provider that partners with leading organizations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses.

Expleo benefits from more than 50 years of experience developing complex products in automotive and aerospace, optimizing manufacturing processes, and ensuring the quality of information systems. Leveraging its deep sector knowledge and wide-ranging expertise in fields including AI engineering, digitalization, automation, cybersecurity and data science, the group’s mission is to fast-track innovation through each step of the value chain.

With a worldwide presence in 30 countries, our global footprint includes excellence centers around the world, including Romania since 1994.

• Administer the client's Storage and Backup Infrastructures’ Systems
  
• Provide technical support for the client storage and backup infrastructures’ users (Connectivity, performance, troubleshooting, storage, backups, etc.)
  
• Manage the backup clients, schedules and retentions
  
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of storage and backup services
  
• Coordinate the replacement of failed Backup, Storage & SAN components, and service restoration
  
• Create and maintain detailed technical and graphical documentation as needed
  
• Develop/update tools and scripts to improve and automate the administration of the Storage and Enterprise Backup operations
  
• Lead complex projects involving storage solutions and products for mid-large environments
  
• Provide on-call rotation-based support outside of business hours
  

We are looking for a technically experienced infrastructure specialist with a minimum of seven years of hands-on operational experience supporting enterprise storage and data protection platforms in production environments.

The role requires solid working knowledge of multi-vendor storage ecosystems, including NetApp ONTAP-based systems, Dell block storage platforms, CEPH, Fibre Channel SAN environments using Cisco MDS, and enterprise backup solutions centered on Avamar and Data Domain, complemented by familiarity with hybrid/cloud backup integrations.

Required Technical Skills

• Demonstrable administration and troubleshooting experience with multi-vendor enterprise storage arrays, with emphasis on:
  - NetApp ONTAP environments (FAS, vNAS/file/object services, SolidFire)
  - Dell PowerStore or equivalent block storage platforms
  - CEPH
• Hands-on administration of Cisco MDS Fiber Channel fabrics
• Extensive experience installing, configuring, and administering enterprise backup platforms, including Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC Data Domain and Veeam backup and replication.
• Networking Fundamentals - Ethernet switching concepts, TCP/IP stack behavior, Routing basics and Link aggregation (LACP)

Required Soft Skills

• Reliable, quality-oriented, time-management, ownership
  
• Proactive, prioritizes effectively and responds constructively to operational demands.
  
• Communicates clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders 
  
• Structured analytical thinking 
  
• Operates effectively within controlled enterprise environments 
  

Advantageous capabilities :

• Hands-on experience developing scripts or automation workflows using PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible or similar automation frameworks
• Experience with Microsoft 365 backup solutions such as AvePoint and Spanning
• Exposure to Software Defined Storage (SDS) platforms
• Working knowledge of Linux administration and Microsoft Windows Server environments
• Familiarity with virtualization platforms such as VMware

Desirable certifications:

• EMC Avamar, Data Domain or ECS
• DELL/EMC, Netapp storage systems
• CISCO MDS switches
• ITIL

• CIM or B2B (SRL only)
• Participation in On-call rotation required

• Benefit Platform 
• Holiday Voucher 
• Private medical insurance  
• Performance bonus 
• Easter and Christmas bonus 
• Employee referral bonus 
• Bookster subscription  
• Work from home options depending on project  #LI-AT1