Senior Storage and Backup Engineer

At Accendra Health, we understand that healthcare is complex, and we’re here to make it easier. We help deliver care beyond traditional settings, making essential products and services more accessible through every stage of life. As part of the care team, our teammates play a critical role in delivering personalized, long-term care for the patients we serve.

With deep expertise promoting health outside the hospital and a presence in communities nationwide through our Apria and Byram Healthcare brands, Accendra Health does more than just deliver the essentials.

If you’re interested in meaningful work with impact, explore our career opportunities and join us in our purpose of Bringing Care To Life™.

POSITION SUMMARY

Our innovative company is looking to fill the role of Storage & Backup Administrator. Day-to-day activities include developing and documenting system specifications, implementing hardware and OS, maintaining high operational uptime stringent SLAs, coordinating with applications and database teams and other operational and project-based tasks please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications listed below.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Key Responsibilities:

· Perform tasks necessary to fulfill service level agreements with end-users regarding storage allocations, limitations, security, and availability.

· Perform and test backups and restores to ensure that enterprise data is effectively protected.

· Communicate and enforce, through system procedures, data storage retention policies.

· Follow change control, incident response, and testing processes for modifications to storage appliances and software.

· Anticipate, mitigate, identify, respond to, and resolve issues with storage devices, storage access, and data retrieval.

· Monitor, analyze, and predict trends for storage equipment performance, space allocation, and data growth to recommend enhancements to the IT storage team.

· Remain informed on storage laws, trends, and issues, including current and emerging technologies and best practices; advise, counsel, and educate executive and management teams on their relative importance.

· Ensure that information storage measures and equipment adhere to all applicable laws and regulations.

· Perform storage server/database transaction and security audits leading to identification and mitigation of security threats to enterprise data. Recommend and implement changes where necessary.

Create required reports in response to business user needs.

· Develop, document, and maintain operational processes and tasks.

· Understanding of Storage & backup automation Develop and maintain documentation related to patching processes and procedures.

· Participate in on-call rotation for after-hours patching activities.

Information Technology:

· Operational expertise with enterprise-class storage systems is a must for this position. Solid understanding of storage architecture design techniques, theories, principles, and practices.

· Working technical experience with designing, building, installing, configuring, and supporting storage servers and management software.,

· Hands-on IBM/NetApp/EMC storage troubleshooting experience

· Hands-on experience in managing VTL E.g. Cybernetics

· Hands-on experience Cohesity / TSM /IBM defender

· Hands-on experience on SAN switch management

· Understanding of Disaster recovery tools & management (VMware SRM /Zerto)

· Understanding of ITIL processes and best practice

· Understanding of SLA terms

· Excellent troubleshooting abilities

Skills and Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in related field, or relevant experience

· Minimum 9+ years of experience in Storage & Backup administration

· Excellent communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively to the teams as well as IT Executive Management

· Fluency in English, both written and spoken

· Must be highly motivated and have a positive attitude.

· Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills

· Proven track record working in a global and multicultural environment.

· Critical thinking, Deductive thinking, Problem solving skills.

· Must work well in a team environment.

· Must have strong reporting and analytical skills.

· Excellent listening and customer service skills

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

· Ready to work in 24X7 Shifts & on call schedule.

Training:

· The post holder will be expected to undertake training to ensure that her/his skills are current.

If you feel this opportunity could be the next step in your career, we encourage you to apply.

Accendra is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, religion, disability, age, status as a veteran, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law.

Note: Accendra is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our Company via email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our Company. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by our Company as a result of the referral or through other means.