Job details
Domain
Performance and Support
Job field / Job profile
IT - Operating system / telecom network expert
Job title
Backup and Storage Administrator
Employment type
Permanent
Professional category
Employees / Staff
Part time / Full time
Full-time
Job description
As a Backup & Storage Administrator, you'll contribute to meaningful projects that shape the future of aerospace.
This position contributes to our vision by:
• Actively contribute to the technical design of enterprise backup and storage solutions in partnership with company architects and in alignment with approved architecture standards.
• Take full responsibility for the build, integration, testing, and deployment of approved backup and storage solutions across Safran Electrical & Power sites.
• Independently prepare production changes, including implementation and rollback plans, testing evidence, scheduling, dependencies, risk and impact assessments, and required approvals.
• Deliver backup, storage, modernization, resilience, and CMMC-related projects across restricted US environments and non-restricted international environments.
• Work closely with project managers to translate technical deployment choices, constraints, risks, and impacts into clear, accessible information for business stakeholders, including international audiences.
• Engineer reusable standards and automation for deployment, validation, reporting, and routine administration, while supporting the progressive adoption of cloud-based backup and storage solutions and SysOps methods.
• Assure Build-to-Run readiness through complete documentation, CMDB updates, monitoring integration, compliance evidence, recovery and rollback procedures, operational acceptance, and structured knowledge transfer to Run L2 and L3 teams.
• Provide active expert support to Run L2 and L3 teams for complex and critical backup and storage incidents, including diagnosis, recovery, root-cause analysis, and durable corrective actions.
• Administer and support Veritas NetBackup, NetApp ONTAP, NAS and SAN services, replication, and recovery processes for physical, virtual, and cloud-based systems.
• Create and maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and operational procedures, and proactively coach Run L2 and L3 teams to increase autonomy and reduce recurring escalations.
• Monitor service health, backup success, capacity, replication, performance, and recovery readiness; identify trends and drive preventive or corrective action.
• Optimize reliability, storage efficiency, automation, lifecycle management, and service levels, and contribute to roadmaps for cloud evolution and technology refresh.
• Develop toward becoming the Backup and Storage Service Owner, with an initial focus on the CMMC environment, including ownership of improvement plans, capacity follow-up, compliance evidence, service reviews, and evolution priorities.
But what else? (advantages, specificities, etc.)
• Embed security and compliance requirements into build standards, changes, access controls, hardening, logging, retention, recovery, and operational documentation.
• Contribute to CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 projects through technical control implementation, evidence production, gap remediation, and coordination with cybersecurity, compliance, architecture, and operations teams.
• Strengthen cyber-recovery through encryption, least privilege, immutability where applicable, tested recovery procedures, and corrective actions from exercises and audits.
• Maintain regular and predictable attendance.
• Comply with all company safety, environmental, quality, and security policies.
• Support continuous improvement initiative
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Adheres to safe work practices and contributes to the evolution of the health, safety, and environmental program and culture;
• Regular, predictable attendance is required;
• Promote and Participate on Safety Management System Culture
• Other duties may be assigned.
Education and/or Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of five years of hands-on experience supporting and engineering enterprise backup and storage environments or comparable infrastructure platforms.
• Hands-on experience administering and engineering Veritas NetBackup or a comparable enterprise backup platform.
Candidate skills & requirements
• Hands-on experience administering and engineering NetApp ONTAP or a comparable enterprise storage platform.
• Experience delivering infrastructure builds, changes, migrations, and production handovers, and providing expert support to Run teams in highly available, mission-critical environments.
• Experience collaborating with architects and project managers, assessing business impact, and communicating technical topics to non-technical and international stakeholders.
Knowledge/Skills
• Enterprise Backup and Storage Build Engineering and Architecture Collaboration - Expert
• Veritas NetBackup Administration and Engineering - Expert
• NetApp ONTAP, NAS, SAN, SnapMirror, and SnapVault Technologies - Expert
• Complex Incident Resolution and Recovery - Expert
• Build-to-Run Transition and Knowledge Transfer - Expert
• Change Preparation, Risk and Business Impact Management - Advanced
• CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 Technical Control Implementation - Advanced
• Disaster Recovery, Cyber-Resilience, and Business Continuity - Advanced
• Capacity, Performance, Monitoring, and Lifecycle Management - Advanced
• Technical Documentation and Business Communication - Advanced
• Cloud Backup and Storage Solutions - Basic
• SysOps and Infrastructure Automation Concepts, including scripting and infrastructure-as-code tools - Basic
• ITIL Service Management Framework - Basic
• CMDB, Audit Evidence, and Compliance Documentation - Basic
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
• NetApp certifications, such as NCSA, NCDA, or NCSE, are preferred.
• Experience supporting regulated manufacturing, aerospace, or defense environments.
• Knowledge of CMMC and NIST 800-171 compliance requirements
This description outlines the general nature and level of work for this position. Duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may vary by assignment or group.
Annual salary
Based on Experience
Job location
Job location
North America, United States, Texas
City (-ies)
Denton
Applicant criteria
Minimum education level achieved
Bachelor's Degree
Minimum experience level required
More than 5 years
ITAR Controlled Position: Select "Yes" if role requires U.S. citizenship/permanent residency
Yes
