Senior Storage Engineer

Senior Storage EngineerLocation: Melbourne, AustraliaExperience: 12+ YearsMust-Have Skills:Prior experience working in the Australian public sector and enterprise/government environments.12+ years of experience in enterprise storage and backup administration.Strong expertise in Dell EMC PowerMax/VMAX, Data Domain, SRDF and SnapVX.Hands-on experience with SAN, Cisco switches, zoning, LUN provisioning and masking.Strong experience in storage transformation, data centre migrations, upgrades and DR implementations.Proven experience as a Storage SME/Lead, including storage architecture and solution delivery.Experience with backup, restore, disaster recovery, performance tuning and capacity planning.Knowledge of Unisphere, REST APIs and storage automation/orchestration.Experience with ITIL, storage security, access controls, encryption and compliance.Relevant/Nice-to-Have Skills:Dell PPDM and IBM Power10/AIX environments.Hybrid storage and GCP/cloud integration.Data lifecycle management, retention policies and storage cost optimisation.Vendor management with Dell EMC and Cisco.Strong customer-facing, communication and documentation skills.Relevant Storage/SAN/Backup/ITIL certifications.Key Responsibilities:Lead enterprise storage, backup, SAN and DR operations.Design and implement scalable, secure and high-performance storage solutions.Manage PowerMax, Data Domain, SRDF, SnapVX and SAN infrastructure.Drive migrations, upgrades, firmware/patching and performance optimisation.Ensure compliance, availability, data integrity and defined RTO/RPO objectives.Education: Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, IT or related field.