Senior Storage & Backup Administrator (NetApp/Commvault)

Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada; full-time onsite at Barlow 2400 32 Ave NE

Company

hirify.global supports connectivity for Canadians through large-scale technology projects, infrastructure, and telecommunications services.

What you will do

• Administer NetApp ONTAP and StorageGrid environments, including provisioning, aggregates, volumes, LUNs, quotas, exports, SMB/CIFS, and NFS shares.
• Configure and maintain Snapshot, SnapMirror, SnapVault, replication, capacity planning, performance monitoring, migrations, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Administer Commvault and a legacy NetBackup environment, including backup policies, retention, archiving, replication, restores, and recovery plans.
• Perform backup, restore, disaster recovery, restore testing, and recovery validation for physical, virtual, cloud, and NAS workloads.
• Monitor and troubleshoot storage, backup, latency, throughput, capacity, and utilization issues while maintaining security and compliance.
• Collaborate with server, virtualization, database, cloud, application, vendor, and infrastructure teams; participate in ServiceNow escalations and 24x7 on-call rotations.

Requirements

• Experience administering and supporting NetApp storage, including core NetApp storage concepts.
• Experience with Commvault or equivalent enterprise backup and recovery platforms; exposure to NetBackup is relevant.
• Strong understanding of VMware, Linux, Windows, enterprise infrastructure, storage, and backup technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting and support skills, with the ability to remain calm under pressure and work independently.
• Understanding of security and cybersecurity concepts as they apply to infrastructure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for interaction with end users, team members, other groups, and vendors.
• Availability for after-hours, evening, or weekend patching, plus participation in 24x7 on-call rotations and complex incident escalations.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and accessibility.
• A Canadian criminal record check is required; a credit check and driver’s abstract may also be required depending on the role.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time position with day shifts and no travel requirements.
• Competitive salary, annual bonus, flexible health and dental benefits, pension, RRSP, TFSA, and stock matching programs.
• Paid volunteer time, charitable matching, career development programs, internal mobility opportunities, wellness programs, virtual healthcare, and fitness benefits.
• Inclusive workplace with environmental initiatives and employee resource groups supporting equity-deserving communities.
• Corporate employees are expected to work onsite full-time to support collaboration, learning, and connection.

Hiring process

• All candidates must clear a pre-employment criminal background check.
• Additional credit and driver’s abstract checks may apply depending on the role.