Storage & Backup Platform Owner

TL;DR

Storage & Backup Platform Owner (Storage/Backup): Develop, operate, and continuously improve storage and backup platforms across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud environments with an accent on resilience, automation, and reliable daily operations. Focus on designing and maintaining SAN/NAS backup and disaster recovery processes, troubleshooting incidents with root-cause analysis, and guiding a team to deliver stable, secure, and recoverable infrastructure.

Location: Bratislava

Salary: EUR 3,300 gross per month (minimum wage for this full-time position)

Company

hirify.global is part of Erste Group, providing digital IT capabilities for one of the largest banking groups in Central and Eastern Europe.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain storage and backup solutions focused on resilience, automation, and dependable day-to-day operations.
• Manage and optimize SAN/NAS backup platforms, disaster recovery operations, retention policies, restores, and related services.
• Monitor storage and backup services using observability tools, respond to deviations, and maintain stability, reliability, and performance.
• Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis and postmortems, define preventive measures, and communicate next steps.
• Create and maintain operational documentation, response procedures, and runbooks.
• Support roadmap and capacity planning, lifecycle management, total cost of ownership improvements, and participate in on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of active experience with storage and backup technologies, practices, and operations.
• Recent experience with SAN/NAS/DAS architectures, RAID, LUN masking, zoning, Fibre Channel, and storage provisioning.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise backup solutions (e.g., IBM PowerProtect/TSM or Veeam) and configuring backup repositories, proxies, gateways, jobs, and retention policies.
• Up-to-date knowledge of backup methodologies, disaster recovery, business continuity, ransomware protection, data retention, encryption standards, and data protection regulations.
• Experience with VMware vSphere and integration of storage/backup services with virtual infrastructure (including OpenShift and KVM).
• Understanding of object storage, cloud-based disaster recovery, hybrid storage models, and automation for backup/restore and storage-as-code.

Culture & Benefits

• Work-life balance support including sabbatical, paternity leave, extra holiday days, and contributions to the 3rd pillar.
• Health care coverage with above-standard medical examination and a helpline for difficult life situations; salary compensation during sick leave.
• Learning & development opportunities through an international community, interest groups, and clubs.
• Sports and leisure support via MultiSport card.
• Employee referral program with rewards for successful IT referrals.

Hiring process

• Interview process with evaluation of storage/backup expertise and operational ownership.
• Discussion of team collaboration approach and how you handle incidents, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.