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Storage and Backup Engineer | Location: Remote | Contract | Hourly Pay Range $70-$85/hr

This contract Storage and Backup Engineer role supports enterprise storage platforms and backup systems for mission-critical applications. You’ll own provisioning, configuration, upgrades, performance optimization, and troubleshooting across storage and backup infrastructure while following established change management and operational controls.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain the integrity, availability, and performance of enterprise storage systems, storage networks, and backup infrastructure.

Provision, configure, upgrade, patch, and troubleshoot storage and backup platforms to ensure stability and capacity.

Provide advanced support for Commvault and Cohesity, resolving complex issues independently and supporting backup strategy and operations.

Diagnose and resolve production incidents and problem tickets, including high-severity events, on-call support, and root cause analysis.

Monitor storage capacity and performance trends, perform tuning, and optimize resource allocation across the environment.

Implement storage and backup changes in alignment with established change management policies, procedures, and controls.

Identify and remediate system issues and vulnerabilities to maintain a stable and secure infrastructure.

Collaborate with stakeholders and senior engineers to evaluate, document, and implement storage/backup requests and configuration revisions.

Contribute to infrastructure and application projects including solution design, evaluation, testing, implementation, and deployment.

Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational reports, and support runbooks for management and ongoing operations.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

3–5+ years of relevant professional experience.

Strong understanding of enterprise storage hardware platforms (e.g., Hitachi, Dell).

Familiarity with VMware ESX environments.

Expert-level Commvault experience, including independently troubleshooting high-severity issues and guiding backup strategy.

Expert-level Cohesity experience.

Hands-on experience with enterprise storage operations (provisioning, configuration, upgrades, maintenance, performance tuning).

Experience supporting mission-critical production environments (incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis).

Strong understanding of change management processes and adherence to operational controls.

Experience with automation/scripting tools such as Ansible, Python, or PowerShell.

Experience with storage capacity planning, performance monitoring, and resource management.

Excellent communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with monitoring/performance tools such as Grafana, Splunk, or Dynatrace.

Networking knowledge relevant to storage technologies, including NFS, SMB, Fibre Channel (FC), and iSCSI.

Experience supporting regulated industries or financial services environments.

Familiarity with security best practices, vulnerability assessments, and remediation.

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Delphi-US is a national IT Services firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. Delphi attracts our nation's best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and positions our nation's finest employers to further their competitive advantages. Delphi's core technical focus includes Data Intelligence Engineering & Analytics, AI/ML Operational Excellence, DevOps & Cloud Computing, Health IT & Life Sciences, and Energy Management/Power Systems; serving domains from sensitive national energy sectors to critical financial services, biomed, life sciences & pharma, major government & municipal institutions, and much of the USA's Fortune 500 corporations. Delphi Associates are deployed on critical IT Projects where their consultative business acumen, comprehensive technical expertise, and committed service mission drives our client's success. Our proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process results in higher qualified project teams, custom curated for our client's specific technical & functional goals. We are supremely experienced, friendly, professional, and ready to advocate on your behalf. Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations, a track record of project success and we deliver lasting results.

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