Backup and Storage Engineer

Title: Backup and Storage Engineer

Location: Bethesda, MD - Hybrid - 02-03 days a week

Duration : 12 month(s)+

Skill and Experience:

• 8-10 years experience in information technology process and/or technical project management including:
• Expertise in enterprise storage platforms (e.g., NetApp, Dell EMC, Isilon, Unity, Pure Storage, PURE Cloud Block Store)
• Expertise in cloud storage platforms (e.g., EBS, S3, Azure Blob, AWS FSx, ONTAP FSx etc)
• Deep knowledge of enterprise backup technologies (e.g., Commvault, Rubrik, Veeam, Veritas)
• Deep knowledge of cloud native backups (e.g., AWS Backup, Azure Backup etc)
• 4+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), building and managing highly available and mission critical systems, with 3+ years of experience on public cloud, preferably AWS
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Shell, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Cloudformation
• Monitoring and observability experience using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar.
• Proven automation and programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, Python, Go, Perl, Bash
• Deep understanding of SRE practices such as Service Level Objectives, Error Budgets, Toil Management, Observability & Monitoring, Blameless Postmortems, Incident Response Process, Capacity Planning
• Exposure to Cloud Native, Relational and NoSQL databases like RDS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra or Couchbase preferable.
• Experience with deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale, distributed applications in cloud environments such as AWS
• Experience in vulnerability assessment, patching, security compliance of infrastructure, storage & backup
• Experience is setting up DR using approved Storage and Backup technologies
• Familiarity with security frameworks such as ISO27001, SOCII, PCI-DSS, and/or HIPAA
• Experience working with SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS offerings
• Ability to work with global teams located in US and India