Storage & Backup Engineer

About the Role

DXC Technology is seeking an experienced Storage & Backup Engineer – Associate Manager to lead storage and backup operations. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and involves managing critical infrastructure within a large enterprise environment. The role focuses on ensuring the high availability and resilience of business systems through effective storage and backup management.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of storage and backup engineers.
• Manage and maintain enterprise storage platforms, including Dell EMC Unity, PowerMax, Isilon, and Data Domain.
• Administer Veritas NetBackup environments, covering backup policies, monitoring, troubleshooting, restores, and reporting.
• Ensure successful completion of backup jobs and adherence to SLA requirements.
• Manage storage provisioning, LUN creation, replication, performance monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Support disaster recovery initiatives, testing activities, and backup restoration validation.
• Monitor storage and backup infrastructure using tools such as SolarWinds and Dynatrace.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, database, and network teams to support business services.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and recovery plans.
• Participate in CAB meetings, governance reviews, and service improvement initiatives.
• Manage incidents, requests, changes, and asset records through ServiceNow.
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and operational standards.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 6+ years of experience in Storage and Backup Administration.
• Hands-on experience with Dell EMC Unity, PowerMax, Isilon, and Data Domain.
• Strong experience with Veritas NetBackup administration and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of SAN, NAS, storage replication, and data protection technologies.
• Experience with Disaster Recovery planning and testing.
• Experience working in enterprise data center environments.

Skills and Attributes

• Strong troubleshooting and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to lead technical teams and drive operational excellence.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position within an enterprise data center environment, requiring collaboration with various technical teams to support business services.