# Senior Storage and Backup - PMax, PFlex, PScale, Riyadh, KSA

**Company:** [DeepSource Technologies](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/bSz5yPYQuy7zGF2AaBwdRp.md)
**Location:** New Delhi, India
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced **Resident Storage & Backup Engineer** to be based on-site at our client's premises, responsible for the day-to-day administration, monitoring, and support of enterprise storage and backup infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise across the Dell EMC storage portfolio — including PowerMax, Data Domain, PowerScale, ECS, and PowerFlex — along with strong VMware virtualization knowledge and solid understanding of SAN/Ethernet fabric networking. This is a critical infrastructure role ensuring data availability, performance, and resilience for the client's environment.

**Key Responsibilities**

-   Administer, configure, and support **Dell EMC PowerMax 8500 & 2500** storage arrays, ensuring optimal performance, capacity planning, and availability.
-   Manage and maintain **Data Domain** and **Cyber Recovery Solution (CRS)** environments, including backup job monitoring, troubleshooting, and isolated recovery vault operations.
-   Administer **PowerScale** (scale-out NAS) environments, including cluster health monitoring, capacity management, and performance tuning.
-   Support and maintain **ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage)** object storage infrastructure.
-   Administer **PowerFlex** software-defined infrastructure, including deployment, scaling, and performance optimization.
-   Provide hands-on support for **VMware environments**, including vSphere, vCenter, Aria (formerly vRealize), VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), NSX-T, vRealize Automation (vRA), and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO).
-   Manage and troubleshoot **SAN and Ethernet fabric** connectivity, zoning, and performance across the storage environment.
-   Support **VDI environments** (Citrix) with a focus on storage performance and backend infrastructure health.
-   Monitor daily backup and replication jobs, proactively identifying and resolving failures within SLA windows.
-   Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle management across all storage platforms.
-   Collaborate with infrastructure, virtualization, network, and security teams to ensure integrated, resilient IT operations.
-   Maintain accurate documentation of configurations, procedures, and incident resolutions.
-   Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution.
-   Act as the primary on-site point of contact for storage and backup-related incidents, escalations, and change requests.

## Requirements

**Required Skills & Experience**

-   Proven hands-on experience with **Dell EMC PowerMax 8500 & 2500** arrays.
-   Strong experience with **Data Domain** and **Cyber Recovery Solution (CRS)**.
-   Hands-on expertise with **PowerScale**, **ECS**, and **PowerFlex**.
-   Strong working knowledge of **VMware products** — vSphere, vCenter, Aria, VCF, NSX-T, vRA, and vRO (very important).
-   Solid understanding of **SAN and Ethernet fabric** design, zoning, and troubleshooting.
-   Experience supporting **VDI environments**, preferably **Citrix**.
-   Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to work independently in a resident/on-site capacity.
-   Excellent communication and documentation skills.
-   Willingness to work on-site full-time at the client location.