• 8+ years of experience in Enterprise Storage, Data Center Infrastructure, and Backup environments.
• Strong hands-on experience in SAN/NAS storage administration and enterprise data center environments.
• Experience managing storage capacity, performance, availability, and troubleshooting.
• Good knowledge of SAN, NAS, storage connectivity and high-availability storage environments.
• Experience with VMware/Hyper-V/Nutanix and integration with enterprise storage platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Veeam, Commvault, ExaGrid, Synology NAS or similar backup/storage technologies.
• Experience with Azure Storage and Azure Backup is an advantage.
• Strong understanding of backup, disaster recovery, RPO/RTO and data protection.
• Experience supporting multi-site data centers and critical production environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to handle P1/P2 incidents, RCA, capacity planning and infrastructure changes.