Founded in 1999 in Vienna, the Qualysoft Group is a manufacturer-independent IT consulting and services company, which successfully provides support for its international customers with the aim of boosting their competitiveness and economic efficiency through innovative IT solutions.
Its focus is on financial services providers, telecommunications companies, the automotive industry and energy service providers. Over 400 employees in 6 subsidiaries work together to ensure state of the art solutions for our clients.
We are looking for new colleagues in Qualysoft teams for diverse projects providing continuous learning opportunities. Our common goal is to provide honesty, development and a stable background while getting to know the latest technologies. We are waiting for your application for the position below!
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced
Senior Storage & Backup Engineer to lead the design, management, and optimisation of enterprise storage and backup environments. This role is responsible for ensuring the availability, integrity, and recoverability of organisational data while aligning with business continuity and compliance requirements.
As a senior technical specialist, you will oversee storage infrastructure (SAN & NAS), backup platforms, and disaster recovery processes. You will play a key role in capacity planning, performance optimisation, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement initiatives. The position also includes mentoring responsibilities and close collaboration with cross-functional technology teams.
Responsibilities:
- Lead design, deployment, management, and optimization of SAN/NAS storage environments (HPE, Dell EMC, NetApp, VMware vSAN, Cisco HyperFlex, etc.).
- Oversee backup solutions (Rubrik or similar), replication, snapshots, and disaster recovery processes.
- Conduct backup testing, recovery simulations, and data migration projects.
- Plan capacity, forecast growth, optimize costs, and manage storage lifecycle.
- Ensure storage security, compliance, and proper decommissioning of end-of-life hardware.
- Ensure real-time visibility into system health, performance, and security.
- Integrate monitoring and automation with ITSM, SIEM, and reporting tools.
- Maintain documentation, alerting strategies, playbooks, and dashboards.
- Mentor L2 Support Analysts across storage, backup, monitoring, and automation areas.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance infrastructure reliability and operational efficiency.
- Participate in audits, governance, service reviews, SLA reporting, and vendor management.
- Stay up to date with emerging storage, backup, monitoring, and automation technologies.
- Develop automation scripts/workflows (PowerShell, Bash, Python) to improve efficiency and incident response.
- Participation in on-call duty.
Requirements:
- Advanced knowledge of SAN and NAS architectures (e.g., HPE, Dell EMC, NetApp, VMware vSAN, Cisco HyperFlex or similar technologies).
- Strong understanding of fabric management (e.g., Cisco, Brocade).
- Experience with provisioning, multipath configuration, zoning, and masking.
- Expertise in replication technologies, snapshot management, and recovery testing.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise backup platforms (e.g., Rubrik or comparable solutions), including application-consistent backups and disaster recovery simulations.
- Proven experience in data migration, lifecycle management, and secure decommissioning.
- Strong understanding of storage security and access control principles.
- Capacity planning, cost optimisation, and forecasting skills.
- Experience collaborating with infrastructure and database teams on throughput and restore planning.
- Ability to mentor and develop junior team members.
- Strong English communication skills (minimum C1 level) are required, as the role involves regular interaction in English.
- Experience with monitoring tools, alert tuning, dashboards, and observability practices.
- Proficiency in automation and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
Advantage:
- Experience with deploying, configuring, and optimizing monitoring platforms (e.g., LogicMonitor, Dynatrace).
Why we think you will love working here:With us you count as a person, our doors are always open.We live the Qualysoft Team Spirit and stand for transparency!
Fresh wind and new ideas are welcome, because standstill is a foreign word at Qualysoft.
