Storage & Backup – Monitoring Automation Tech Lead
Avenga
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Warsaw • Poland
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About the role
- Lead deployment, optimisation, and lifecycle management of SAN/NAS storage and backup platforms.
- Ensure compliance with data retention and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain and improve backup and disaster recovery processes.
- Oversee incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation.
- Conduct regular reviews of storage utilisation, backup success, and recovery readiness.
- Manage vendor relationships and coordinate with third‑party support.
- Support audits, remediation, and governance activities.
- Guide L2 analysts and collaborate with cross‑functional teams.
- Ensure secure decommissioning of end‑of‑life hardware.
- Drive continuous improvement and stay current with emerging technologies.
- Lead deployment, configuration, and optimisation of monitoring tools.
- Develop automation scripts and workflows to streamline operations and reduce manual effort.
- Ensure real‑time visibility into system health, performance, and security.
- Integrate monitoring and automation with incident and reporting systems.
- Oversee alerting, reporting, and escalation processes.
- Conduct regular reviews of monitoring data and automation effectiveness.
- Support audits, governance, and SLA compliance.
- Mentor L2 analysts and collaborate with infrastructure, application, and security teams.
- Drive adoption of automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Maintain documentation and manage vendor relationships.
- Provide technical leadership across storage, backup, monitoring, and automation domains.
- Ensure alignment with business continuity, SLA, and compliance requirements.
- Lead incident response, optimisation initiatives, and cross‑team collaboration.
- Maintain strong operational documentation and support audit activities.
Requirements
- Advanced expertise in SAN/NAS architectures, including HPE, EMC, NetApp, VMware vSAN, and Cisco HyperFlex Distributed Filesystem.
- Strong knowledge of storage fabric management (Cisco, Brocade), including provisioning, multipathing, zoning, and masking.
- Proven experience in capacity planning, performance optimisation, and lifecycle management of enterprise storage platforms.
- Deep understanding of replication technologies, snapshot policies, and regular recovery testing.
- Hands‑on experience with Rubrik backup solutions, including application‑consistent backups and disaster recovery simulations.
- Proficiency in data migration, decommissioning processes, and integrity validation.
- Strong focus on security, access control, and compliance across storage and backup environments.
- Ability to optimise storage costs and forecast capacity needs.
- Experience collaborating with server, database, and application teams to ensure throughput, performance, and restore readiness.
- Ability to mentor and support L2 analysts in storage and backup operations.
- Expertise in enterprise monitoring platforms such as LogicMonitor and Dynatrace, including coverage modelling and KPI dashboard development.
- Strong skills in alert threshold tuning, event enrichment, correlation, and noise reduction.
- Proficiency in automation scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python) to streamline IT operations and support incident response.
- Experience managing monitoring pipelines, platform upgrades, and rollback procedures.
- Knowledge of integrating monitoring systems with ITSM, SIEM, and escalation workflows.
- Strong capacity planning, SLO reporting, and trend analysis capabilities.
- Experience with synthetic monitoring, DR validation, and observability standards for new services and locations.
- Ability to maintain and enhance knowledge bases, alert playbooks, and tuning guidelines.
- Mentoring capability to support L2 analysts in monitoring and automation disciplines.
- Willingness to be on call one week per month
Benefits
- Private medical care
- Cafeteria benefits program
- Private insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SAN architectureNAS architectureHPEEMCNetAppVMware vSANCisco HyperFlexstorage fabric managementRubrik backup solutionsautomation scripting
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationincident responsecontinuous improvementcapacity planningperformance optimisationdocumentation managementvendor relationship managementtroubleshootingcommunication