IBM SAN Storage and Backup Admin

Posted 8 days 4 hours ago by N Consulting Limited

£80,000 - £100,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Staffordshire, Birmingham, United Kingdom, B19 1
Job Description

Leads, Birmingham, or Manchester, United Kingdom

IBM SAN Storage and Backup Admin at N Consulting Ltd

Job title: IBM SAN Storage and Backup Admin

Location: Leads, Birmingham, or Manchester

Must have skills
  • Storage: IBM SAN, Lenovo NAS and Brocade Switch (10+ years experience)
  • Backup: IBM Backup Tool (Spectrum Protect)
  • Previous experience from IBM preferable
Key Responsibilities
  • Manage & administer IBM Storage platforms.
  • Perform storage provisioning, zoning, replication, firmware upgrades, and performance tuning.
  • Administer IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) backup environment including schedules, policies, restores, failover, failback and disk storage operations.
  • Manage SAN fabrics (Brocade/Cisco), zoning, switch upgrades, and fabric health.
  • Experience with datacenter operations, including hardware installation and troubleshooting.
  • Act as L3 escalation for critical storage & backup incidents.
  • Plan and execute DR drills, storage migrations, and capacity expansion.
  • Strong hands-on experience with IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) & IBM FlashSystem/SVC.
  • Solid understanding of SAN/FC, multipathing, VMware / AIX storage integrations.
  • Experience with replication technologies (FlashCopy, GM, MM).
  • Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills.
  • Create technical documentation, SOPs, and automation scripts (Bash/Python/PowerShell); proficiency in scripting for automation.