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Technical Specialist - Storage, Backup, Data Manag
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Technical Specialist: Storage, Backup, Data Management
Location: Sandton, Johannesburg
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Technical Consultant to act as a technical authority across storage, backup, and data management environments.
This role is responsible for designing, integrating, and optimising enterprise infrastructure solutions across multiple platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, compliance, and cost efficiency.
The successful candidate will play a key role in:
- Driving technical thought leadership
- Ensuring end-to-end integration of infrastructure solutions
- Supporting data lifecycle management and regulatory compliance
- Mentoring teams and uplifting technical capability within the organisation
Key Responsibilities
1. Storage Engineering & Architecture
- Design and implement enterprise storage solutions across SAN, NAS, Object Storage, and HCI environments
- Configure and optimise storage platforms (e.g. Dell PowerMax, NetApp, Hitachi, Pure Storage)
- Define and implement storage tiering strategies aligned to workload performance and cost
- Develop capacity planning models and forecasting reports
- Lead storage refresh, migration, consolidation, and upgrade programmes
- Ensure high availability, resilience, and scalability of storage environments
2. Backup & Recovery Management
- Architect and implement backup solutions (e.g. Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, Rubrik, Cohesity)
- Define and manage backup policies, retention strategies, and scheduling
- Design and execute Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies and testing
- Optimise backup performance (compression, deduplication, window reduction)
- Integrate backup environments with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
3. Archiving, Compliance & Data Lifecycle Management
- Develop and implement enterprise archiving strategies (structured & unstructured data)
- Deploy archiving solutions (e.g. IBM Optim, Mimecast, Enterprise Vault)
- Ensure compliance with:
- POPIA
- SARB
- SARS
- National Archives Act
- Define data classification, retention, and lifecycle policies
- Support governance and audit requirements across the data estate
4. Technical Leadership & Advisory
- Act as a subject matter expert (SME) across storage and data management technologies
- Provi
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