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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. SAN/Storage Backup Engineer - **Company:** Everforth Apex - **Location:** Omaha, NE, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Backup Devices, Cloud Computing, Databases, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Backup and Restore, Scripting, Storage Technologies, Data Management, Commvault, Cisco - **Published:** September 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/fedb334c-db87-4fa4-a824-2d4874dc4db4 ## About the Role * Approximately 8 or more years of experience in enterprise storage and backup engineering. * Strong hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise storage solutions. * Experience supporting SAN, NAS, object-storage, and backup technologies. * Experience leading storage or backup migrations and platform consolidations. * Strong understanding of storage architecture, SAN fabrics, data protection, replication, disaster recovery, and performance management. * Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership or mentoring engineers as a senior individual contributor. * Ability to diagnose complex infrastructure problems and remain involved through resolution. * Ability to learn and adapt to unfamiliar storage and backup platforms. * Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills. * Willingness to work primarily onsite and participate in a light on-call rotation. Preferred Qualifications * Experience with Hitachi enterprise storage platforms. * Experience with Cisco Fibre Channel or comparable SAN fabric technologies. * Experience with Commvault or a comparable enterprise backup platform. * Experience with enterprise object-storage solutions. * Experience supporting cyber-recovery, immutable backup, or advanced disaster-recovery capabilities. * Experience with storage automation, scripting, or infrastructure as code. * Experience leading cost-reduction or data-center modernization initiatives. ## Description We are seeking a Senior Storage and Backup Engineer to serve as a hands-on technical lead within the infrastructure organization. This person will own day-to-day storage and backup engineering, help design and build enterprise solutions, lead modernization and migration efforts, and mentor other engineers on the team. This is not a people-management position or an architecture-only role. The ideal candidate is a senior individual contributor who can provide technical direction while remaining actively involved in implementation, troubleshooting, migrations, and operational support., * Design, build, implement, and support enterprise storage and backup solutions. * Serve as a hands-on technical lead and go-to resource for complex storage and backup issues. * Establish engineering standards, technical best practices, and operational procedures. * Lead storage migrations, platform consolidations, and modernization initiatives. * Support the organization's movement toward a more centralized enterprise object-storage strategy. * Monitor storage capacity, availability, performance, resiliency, and recoverability. * Troubleshoot complex storage, SAN, backup, replication, and recovery issues. * Partner with infrastructure, application, database, cloud, and security teams. * Mentor engineers and help strengthen the team's technical capabilities. * Evaluate new technologies and recommend improvements to the storage and backup environment. * Participate in a low-volume on-call rotation. ## Related Videos - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [It's all about the Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/425-it-s-all-about-the-data) - [JavaScript? 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