Senior Service Engineer
✅ Job Description – L2 Storage Administrator
🎯 Role Summary
The L2 Storage Administrator is responsible for day-to-day operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization of enterprise storage and backup infrastructure, ensuring high availability, data protection, and SLA compliance across on-prem and cloud environments.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
1. Operations & Monitoring
- Perform daily monitoring of storage and backup jobs, ensuring successful completion and SLA adherence
- Track storage utilization, capacity, and performance metrics
- Generate operational reports on backup success rates, failures, and storage usage
2. Incident & Problem Management
- Troubleshoot storage, SAN/NAS, and backup failures and restore services within SLA
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for recurring issues
- Handle Major Incident (MI) calls and escalations (common L2 ownership – based on enterprise practice)
3. Backup & Recovery Management
- Administer backup solutions (e.g., Cohesity, IBM Spectrum Protect, Azure Backup)
- Execute backup, restore, and recovery requests
- Ensure data integrity, retention policies, and recoverability testing are maintained
4. Storage Administration
- Manage storage arrays, volumes, LUNs, and storage pools
- Perform capacity planning and allocation
- Support SAN/NAS provisioning and migrations
5. Configuration & Change Management
- Implement configuration changes, patching, and upgrades
- Perform impact analysis and risk assessment before changes
- Follow ITIL processes for Change & Release management
6. Automation & Optimization (Important for your org)
- Execute and maintain automation scripts (Ansible, PowerShell, etc.)
- Support optimization initiatives like deduplication, compression, encryption
- Reduce manual effort (TOIL) through automation
7. Security & Compliance
- Enforce access control, encryption, and security policies
- Ensure systems comply with audit requirements (SOC2, HIPAA-like environments)
- Participate in backup immutability and ransomware protection initiatives
8. Documentation & Process Adherence
- Maintain SOPs, knowledge articles, and environment documentation
- Update runbooks for incident resolution and operational processes
🧠 Required Skills
Technical Skills
- Storage platforms: Dell EMC (Unity, PowerStore, PowerMax), NetApp, Pure, IBM
- Backup tools: Cohesity, IBM Spectrum Protect, Azure Backup
- SAN technologies: Fibre Channel, iSCSI
- OS knowledge: Windows, Linux
- Cloud: Azure storage & backup services
- Scripting: PowerShell, Python, or Ansible (preferred)
Functional Skills
- Incident & Problem Management (ITIL)
- Strong troubleshooting & analytical skills
- Ability to handle on-call rotations and escalations (commonly expected for L2 roles)
- Communication skills for cross-team coordination
📊 KPIs / Success Metrics
- Backup success rate (%)
- SLA adherence for incidents & requests
- MTTR (Mean Time to Resolve)
- Storage capacity utilization efficiency
- Compliance & audit readiness
🔄 Role Positioning (L2 vs L1/L3)
|
Level |
Responsibilities |
|
L1 |
Monitoring, basic alerts, ticket triage |
|
✅ L2 |
Troubleshooting, operations ownership, execution |
|
L3 |
Architecture, design, complex engineering |
💡 Nice-to-Have (Aligned to your team strategy)
- Experience in Automation-first operations / AI monitoring
- Exposure to backup immutability / cyber recovery
- Knowledge of enterprise dashboards (Power BI, telemetry tools)