Senior Engineer - IT Infrastructure & Storage

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Storage and Backup, you will play a critical role in ensuring the stability, scalability, and resilience of our organization's storage, disaster recovery (DR), and backup solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
• Primary Responsibilities:
• Solution Architecture & Design
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance storage architectures.
• Evaluate and select storage technologies (SAN, NAS, object storage, cloud-based storage) based on workload characteristics and performance requirements.
• Design and implement disaster recovery (DR), backup, and high availability (HA) solutions that align with SLAs, RPO, and RTO objectives.
• Architect efficient backup solutions that safeguard critical production systems and business data.
• Prepare detailed architecture diagrams, data flow models, and technical documentation for storage, backup, and DR strategies.
• Implementation & Deployment
• Lead the deployment and integration of storage infrastructure solutions across compute, network, and cloud environments.
• Implement and maintain backup solutions (NetBackup, Rubrik and ASR) ensuring comprehensive data protection in both on-premises and cloud environments.
• Deploy disaster recovery solutions, ensuring rapid recovery of critical systems during a failure.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, backup scheduling, and monitoring tasks using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools and scripting.
• Manage data migrations from legacy systems to modern storage platforms while maintaining data integrity and backup consistency.
• Work closely with DevOps, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure seamless deployments and disaster recovery testing.
• Maintenance & Operations
• Proactively monitor storage and backup system performance to ensure optimal operation, capacity, and usage.
• Perform regular system updates, including firmware upgrades, patching, and health checks on storage and backup systems.
• Troubleshoot, investigate, and resolve incidents related to storage, backup, and disaster recovery, addressing performance bottlenecks and system failures.
• Conduct routine backup verification to ensure data integrity and test recovery readiness.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation related to backup and disaster recovery, including logs, procedures, and test results.
• Security & Compliance
• Participate in regular audits, risk assessments, and security reviews to maintain compliance with both internal and external requirements.
• Lead efforts to ensure infrastructure meets cybersecurity standards such as ISO 27001, PCI, and relevant frameworks.
• Capacity Planning & Performance Tuning
• Forecast future storage and backup needs based on growth trends, disaster recovery requirements, and business objectives.
• Optimize storage allocation, backup retention policies, and recovery workflows to meet both performance and cost requirements.
• Review backup schedules and retention policies, ensuring they minimize data loss in the event of a failure or disaster.
• Backup & Disaster Recovery Planning & Testing
• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity.
• Perform regular testing of disaster recovery plans, including data failover, failback, and system restoration.
• Ensure off-site and cloud-based backups are implemented and managed for DR readiness.
• Establish and refine backup retention policies that balance compliance, cost, and recovery needs.
• Collaboration & Support
• Provide tier 3 support for escalated issues related to storage, backup, and DR.
• Collaborate with vendors and third-party support teams to manage hardware/software issues, service renewals, and SLAs for storage, backup, and DR solutions.
• Engage with cross-functional teams (DevOps, infrastr

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Additional Information

We create possibilities that move life and commerce forward Welcome to Manhattan. Every day, our supply chain commerce technology connects two billion people to 20 billion consumer choices. In the warehouse, on the road and in the store, we make what was once impossible, possible. If you want to tackle complex problems and redefine markets, you've come to the right place. Senior Engineer - IT Infrastructure- Storage & Data Protection Location: Bangalore Department: Information Technology Reports to: Senior Director- Applications and Systems Years of Experience - 8+ Years Position Summary: The Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Storage and Backup is responsible for designing, implementing, and operating resilient storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. This role provides deep technical expertise, leads complex infrastructure initiatives, ensures data protection, security, and compliance, and collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to align infrastructure capabilities with business continuity and performance objectives.

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