IBM SAN Storage and Backup Admin

Location:

The candidate can be based in one of these location:
Leads, Birmingham, or Manchester -

Work mode: hybrid, 1-2 days WFO (in the provided locations)

NOTE:

Travel to Warwick will be required during the initial transition phase. Expenses will be covered by Client

ob title: IBM SAN Storage and Backup Admin

• Storage : IBM SAN, Lenovo NAS and Brocade Switch (10+ experience Years)
• Previous experience from IBM preferable

• Manage & administer IBM Storage platforms.
• Perform storage provisioning, zoning, replication, firmware upgrades, and performance tuning.
• Administer IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) backup environment including schedules, policies, restores, failover , fail back and disk storage operations.
• Manage SAN fabrics (Brocade/Cisco), zoning, switch upgrades, and fabric health.
• Experience with datacenter operations, including hardware installation and troubleshooting.
• Act as L3 escalation for critical storage & backup incidents.
• Plan and execute DR drills, storage migrations, and capacity expansion
• Strong hands‑on experience with IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) & IBM Flash System/SVC.
• Solid understanding of SAN/FC, multipathing, VMware / AIX storage integrations.
• Experience with replication technologies (Flash Copy, GM, MM).
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills.
• Create technical documentation, SOPs, and automation scripts (Bash/Python/Power Shell), Should have Proficiency in scripting for automation.