Senior Storage and Backup Engineer

Systems Engineering Senior

Senior Storage and Backup Engineer Richmond, VA

Posted:10/29/2026

Job #: 65286

Job Category:
Systems Engineering Senior

Position Type:
Contract

Duration:
Long Term

Remaining Positions: 1

Stefanini Group is hiring!
Stefanini is looking for
Senior Storage and Backup Engineer-Remote
W2 Candidates Only

• Provides technical/production support and expertise for all storage related software and hardware critical infrastructure services and mission critical financial applications.
• Performs storage and backup provisioning, configuration, maintenance, resource management, reporting and troubleshooting.
• Successful support requires a strong, in-depth appreciation of business operations and processes.
• Participates in gathering support information for management.
• Experienced level position requires developing career in field and gaining knowledge of industry practices.
• Requires moderate level of experience and proficiency in field.
• Under general supervision maintains the integrity of storage networks and systems.
• Performs storage and backup support tasks, maintenance, configuration and troubleshooting and provides resolution of problem tickets.
• Implements upgrades and patches.
• Recommends and remediates problems and vulnerabilities to meet customer needs and maintain a stable environment.
• Works with clients and senior engineers to document/implement storage and backup requests or revisions.
• Practices change control and applies strict adherence to client change control policy and follows all change guidelines.
• Participates in project activities to support major infrastructure or application projects.
• Participates in work groups which evaluate, recommend design, build, test and coordinate the implementation of product solutions.
• Performs change management using standard tools following client's change management policies and procedures for software/hardware propagation to other platforms and/or environments.
• Ensures conformance with existing system capability.
• Performs incident and problem management responsibilities including on-call rotations, troubleshooting and diagnostics, and root cause analysis.
• Performs capacity and performance management responsibilities including reviewing capacity and performance trends, ensuring adequate capacity has been allocated to support the trends, and conducting performance tuning and environment optimization.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Strong understanding of storage hardware platforms (Hitachi, Dell, etc.)
• Familiarity with ESX/VMware environments
• Expert level Commvault experience, with the ability to independently handle high severity issues and guide backup strategy.
• Hands on experience with enterprise storage operations (provisioning, configuration, upgrades, performance tuning)
• Experience supporting mission critical environments, including incident response and root cause analysis
• Strong understanding of change management and adherence to established processes
• Expert level Cohesity experience
• Automation/scripting (Ansible, Python, Power Shell)
• Capacity and performance management experience
• Excellent communication and documentation skills

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience with 3 to 5+ years of relevant work experience.

• Experience with monitoring/performance tools (Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace)
• Networking knowledge relevant to storage (NFS, SMB, FC, iSCSI)
• Prior experience in regulated or financial environments
• Familiarity with security and vulnerability remediation

$ 75.00 - $ 80.00

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