Senior Storage & Data Protection Engineer; P

Overview

SMASH helps tech professionals in Costa Rica and Colombia build careers in the United States. We believe in long-lasting relationships with our talent, investing time to understand what they seek as their professional next step and aiming to find the perfect match. As agents, we pair our talent with our US clients not only by technical skills but also as a cultural fit.

Our core competency is to find the right talent fast. We purposefully move away from the “contractor” or “outsourcing” type of relationship. Our clients don’t want contractors or “just a service.”

This position is Remote to work with a US Company; you will require to have Citizenship or a work permit from Costa Rica to apply for this role.

• Wellness Coverage
• Remote Work
• Birthday day off
• Recognition and rewards system
• Referrals Program
• Business skill coaching
• English classes for Smashers and relatives
• Learning opportunities

You will own enterprise storage and data protection platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and recoverability across mission-critical systems. This role focuses on administering Pure Storage and Cohesity solutions integrated with VMware environments to support resilient, on-premise infrastructure operations.

• Administer and support Pure Storage platforms (Flash Array and Flash Blade).
• Manage Cohesity data protection solutions, including backups, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Define and maintain backup, retention, and recovery policies aligned with business requirements.
• Integrate storage and backup platforms with VMware vSphere environments.
• Troubleshoot storage, backup, and virtualization performance issues.
• Support disaster recovery testing and recovery operations.
• Monitor capacity, performance, and availability of storage systems.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and virtualization teams to ensure platform stability.
• Maintain technical documentation, procedures, and operational standards.
• Participate in infrastructure planning, upgrades, and lifecycle management.

• Proven experience as a Storage or Data Protection Engineer in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on expertise with Pure Storage platforms (Flash Array / Flash Blade).
• Strong experience managing Cohesity backup and recovery solutions.
• Solid knowledge of VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter).
• Experience supporting on-premise, enterprise-scale infrastructure environments.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across storage, backup, and virtualization layers.
• Ability to work independently and manage critical infrastructure components.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.

• Experience with disaster recovery design and execution.
• Exposure to hybrid or cloud-connected backup strategies.
• Relevant vendor certifications (Pure Storage, Cohesity, VMware).
• Experience working in regulated or high-availability environments.

• English B2+, Spanish C1