Backup and SQL administrator

Tech Lead – Storage Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Tech Lead – Storage to provide technical leadership, hands‑on engineering, and operational ownership for enterprise storage, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Cohesity
, SQL Server backup and recovery
, and Zerto for disaster recovery and replication.

This role will lead storage and data protection initiatives across enterprise infrastructure environments, ensuring high availability, recoverability, performance, security, and operational stability. The Tech Lead will work closely with infrastructure, database, virtualization, cloud, cybersecurity, application, and operations teams to support business‑critical systems and ensure storage, backup, and disaster recovery services meet enterprise requirements.

• Serve as the technical lead for enterprise storage, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery services.
• Lead the design, implementation, administration, and support of storage and data protection platforms.
• Provide hands‑on technical guidance to infrastructure engineers, operations teams, and project teams.
• Evaluate current storage architecture and recommend improvements for scalability, performance, resiliency, and cost optimization.
• Support enterprise storage platforms across SAN, NAS, object storage, and cloud‑integrated storage environments.
• Lead technical troubleshooting for storage performance, capacity, replication, backup, restore, and recovery issues.
• Participate in architecture reviews, infrastructure planning, capacity forecasting, and technology roadmap discussions.
• Ensure storage services are aligned with business continuity, security, compliance, and operational requirements.

• Administer and support Cohesity backup, recovery, replication, and data protection environments.
• Configure and manage protection policies, protection groups, backup jobs, retention policies, replication jobs, and recovery workflows.
• Perform backup and restore operations for virtual machines, physical servers, databases, file shares, and application workloads.
• Monitor Cohesity cluster health, storage utilization, deduplication, compression, job success rates, and platform performance.
• Troubleshoot failed backup jobs, restore failures, connectivity issues, agent issues, and policy misconfigurations.
• Support immutable backup, ransomware recovery, cyber resilience, and data protection best practices.
• Assist with Cohesity upgrades, patching, capacity expansion, and lifecycle management.
• Develop backup reporting, recovery validation, and audit‑ready documentation.

• Administer and support Zerto for disaster recovery, replication, failover, failback, and recovery testing.
• Configure and manage Virtual Protection Groups, recovery points, journals, replication policies, and recovery plans.
• Coordinate disaster recovery testing with infrastructure, application, database, and business teams.
• Perform planned migrations, failover testing, unplanned failover support, and failback activities.
• Monitor replication health, RPO status, journal usage, alerts, and recovery readiness.
• Troubleshoot Zerto replication, network, journal, VMware, storage, and recovery workflow issues.
• Maintain DR runbooks, recovery procedures, application dependency maps, and test evidence.
• Ensure disaster recovery capabilities align with business‑defined RPO and RTO requirements.

• Partner with database teams to support SQL Server backup, recovery, and data protection requirements.
• Ensure SQL databases are properly protected through backup policies, recovery schedules, retention standards, and restore procedures.
• Support SQL‑aware backup and recovery workflows using Cohesity or other enterprise backup tools.
• Assist with database restore requests, point‑in‑time recovery coordination, and recovery validation.
• Understand SQL Server backup types, including full, differential, and transaction log backups.
• Support backup and recovery considerations for SQL Server Always On Availability…