Enterprise Storage And Backup Specialist

Enterprise Storage and Backup SpecialistWhy join us?At Bombardier, we design, build and maintain the world’s peak-performing aircraft for the world’s most discerning people and businesses, governments and militaries. We have been successful in setting the highest standards by putting our people at the heart of it all, and defining excellence, together.
Working at Bombardier means operating at the highest level. Every day, you are part of a team that delivers superior experiences and products, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in our industry and beyond. By prioritizing employee growth and development, we empower everyone to reach their full potential on their own terms, because the best work happens when you are free to be yourself and share your unique expertise.
Bombardier’s Benefits ProgramWith our employees’ well-being top of mind, we offer a comprehensive and competitive Benefits Program, which includes the following:
Insurance plans (Dental, medical, life insurance, disability, and more)
Competitive base salary
Retirement savings plan
Employee Assistance Program
Tele Health Program
Role overviewThe Enterprise Storage & Backup Specialist is responsible for the administration, implementation, technical evolution, and continuous improvement of enterprise storage and data protection platforms. The role provides senior technical expertise across SAN, NAS, storage networking, storage management, backup, recovery, and data protection technologies supporting on-premises and hybrid environments. The role is expected to operate independently, provide technical leadership, and ensure storage and data protection services are reliable, secure, scalable, performant, cost-effective, and aligned with enterprise technology and business continuity requirements.
Working closely with Infrastructure, Virtualization, Cloud, Network, Security, Application, Architecture, and project teams, the position supports complex operational issues while leading or contributing to storage and backup projects, platform modernization, migrations, capacity expansion, and technology lifecycle activities.
What are your contributions to the team?
Storage & Backup Platform Ownership:
Administer and maintain enterprise SAN, NAS, storage management, backup, and recovery platforms, including configuration, patching, upgrades, capacity, performance, availability, and lifecycle management.
Storage Architecture & Implementation: Design, configure, implement, and validate storage solutions, including SAN/NAS deployments, storage networking, replication, capacity expansions, migrations, technology refreshes, and integration with server and virtualization platforms.
Backup & Data Protection Engineering:
Engineer and maintain enterprise backup and recovery solutions, including backup policies, retention, replication, recovery processes, protection of critical workloads, and alignment with business continuity and disaster recovery requirements.
Operational Reliability & Troubleshooting:
Lead investigation and resolution of complex storage and backup incidents, performance issues, capacity constraints, failed backups, recovery issues, and systemic platform problems, including root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
Capacity, Performance & Optimization:
Monitor and analyze storage utilization, I/O performance, growth, backup consumption, and capacity requirements;
develop strategies to optimize utilization, performance, availability, and overall infrastructure cost.
Projects, Migration & Technology Evolution:
Lead or provide senior technical expertise for storage and backup projects, platform modernization, workload migrations, data center initiatives, cloud integration, technology upgrades, and platform consolidation.
Automation, Monitoring & Resilience:
Develop and promote automation for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, backup operations, reporting, and routine maintenance while improving platform resilience, observability, and operational efficiency.
Technical Leadership & Standards:
Act as the storage and backup SME, provide technical guidance to Infrastructure, Virtualization, Cloud, Network, Security, and project teams, contribute to enterprise standards and technology roadmaps, and champion continuous improvement.
How to thrive in this role?Required Qualifications
Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
5+ years of professional experience in enterprise storage, backup, infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or related technology disciplines, with demonstrated senior-level responsibility.
Strong hands-on experience with enterprise SAN and/or NAS technologies, including storage provisioning, configuration, performance management, capacity management, replication, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
Demonstrated experience with enterprise backup and recovery technologies, including backup configuration, retention, replication, recovery testing, troubleshooting, and data protection management.
Strong knowledge of storage technologies and concepts, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, RAID, storage networking, multipathing, snapshots, replication, deduplication, compression, and storage virtualization.
Experience integrating storage and backup platforms with server, virtualization, database, and cloud environments, preferably including Azure and hybrid infrastructure.
Strong understanding of availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, RPO/RTO, data protection, security encryption, access control, and recovery requirements.
Working knowledge of automation and scripting, such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible, APIs, or equivalent technologies, with an understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps practices.
Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to independently resolve complex technical issues and act as a senior technical SME across Infrastructure, Virtualization, Cloud, Network, Security, Architecture, and project teams.
Fluency in English and French, both written and spoken.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong experience with major enterprise storage and backup platforms such as NetApp, Dell EMC, HPE, Pure Storage, IBM, Commvault, Veeam, Rubrik, or equivalent technologies.
Experience designing and implementing enterprise disaster recovery, storage replication, immutable backup, ransomware resilience, and large-scale data protection strategies.
Relevant professional certifications in storage, backup, virtualization, cloud, or infrastructure technologies.
Experience developing enterprise storage and backup standards, reference architectures, capacity strategies, automation practices, and multi-year technology roadmaps.
Please note: You don’t need all the skills, knowledge, and experience listed to apply for this position. We’re not looking for the perfect candidate, we’re looking for great talent and passionate individuals.
Bombardier is an equal opportunity employer and encourages persons of any race, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, immigration status, disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics to apply.
Job
Enterprise Storage and Backup Specialist
Primary Location
Administrative Centre (CA)
Organization
Aerospace Canada
Shift
Employee Status
Regular
Requisition
16559 Enterprise Storage and Backup Specialist
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