Introduction
The Storage Engineer (Infrastructure Specialist) will be responsible for the day-to-day management and operational support of Azure-native storage services within a large-scale, enterprise-grade cloud environment. This role focuses on ensuring storage availability, policy compliance, and operational stability while adhering to best practices for security, governance, and performance.
Your role and responsibilities
- Provide operational support for Azure-native storage services, including Blob Storage, File Shares, Disks, and Tables.
• Monitor storage performance and usage to ensure optimal availability and compliance with the Client's governance and tagging policies.
• Support storage-related incident resolution, problem analysis, and change management processes in coordination with other support teams.
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• Validate backup jobs associated with storage resources and proactively report anomalies; assist in restoring data when required.
• Apply and maintain access control, encryption settings, and retention policies in line with Microsoft recommendations and organizational standards.
• Collaborate with platform, application, and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot and resolve storage-related issues efficiently.
• Maintain storage documentation, operational procedures, and runbooks to support continuity and compliance.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Must be an Australian Citizen
- Must have an active AGSVA Baseline Clearance, preferred to have AGSVA NV1 Clearance
- Knowledge of networking principles as they relate to storage (e.g., Private Endpoints, NSGs, service endpoints).
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, or equivalent for tracking storage health and performance.
- Familiarity with Azure Backup, storage access controls, RBAC, and data lifecycle management.
- Strong understanding of Azure storage services and their operational characteristics (Blob, Files, Disks, Tables).
- 2+ years of experience managing cloud storage infrastructure, preferably in Microsoft Azure environments.
- Ability to work from the designated office 5 days per week.
- Willingness to travel as needed.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Certification in SAP HANA or related fields.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA or Cloud Platform.
- Knowledge of threat modeling and secure coding practices.
- Familiarity with security testing tools and methodologies.
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