IBM SAN Storage and Backup Admin

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.