Storage & Backup Engineer

Overview

Backup Expert role within Sanofi's Digital Foundations team in the Indian hub, focused on backup infrastructure, cyber recovery and resilience across global environments.

What you'll do

• Exercise expertise for incident troubleshooting and problem solving with operational teams, with a strong focus on cyber security and cyber resiliency.
• Collaborate with operations teams, business partners, and experts for any backup infrastructure-related matter.
• Implement and document existing/new solutions and coordinate Improvement Plans to ensure and maintain the robustness (availability, reliability, efficiency, performance) of global infrastructures.
• Ensure backup and recovery solutions meet Sanofi standards; verify that infrastructure services are delivered in a consistent and quality-compliant manner, aligned with established processes, methodologies, and best practices.
• Following the direction of the Backup Owner, contribute to developing effective and optimized solutions and collaborate with relevant teams to ensure delivery of a complete operational service delivering value to the business.
• Contribute as a developer in Agile Projects in a complex global environment.
• Practice cloud expertise to manage modern cloud backup technologies.
• Work to achieve common goals within Digital Foundations, managing close relationships with all stakeholders to ensure alignment with global objectives.
• Contribute as a backup expert with backup and cyber security teams globally to ensure completeness and robustness of infrastructures.
• Implement resilient backup solutions to enable Sanofi's Cyber Recovery strategy.
• Serve as a key Backup team contributor to Cyber Recovery processes globally.
• Facilitate the cyber recovery strategy by actively contributing to implement retained solutions.
• Execute backup transformation under the supervision of the backup owner.
• Automate the backup environment with ad-hoc technologies and end-to-end automation.
• Keep infrastructure up to date and reduce the support burden.
• Manage obsolescence and technical debt to mitigate operational and security risk.
• Monitor the security level across different backup technologies.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of direct, progressive hands-on backup management experience as a backup administrator, preferably in a large global environment.
• Experience in Mass Restore & Recovery at large scale.
• Ability to work in a global team environment.
• Collaborative team member with proven ability to assist in large, complex, and diverse services.
• Self-motivated with the ability to successfully prioritize tasks and work independently.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Creative and able to challenge the status quo.
• Understands the impact that new solutions can have on existing systems/organizations.
• Engages expertise needed to solve problems.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and integrate them into a distributed environment.
• Proven communication skills (verbal, written, presentation) in a networked organizational environment, for both Digital and non-Digital audiences.
• International cultural awareness, respect for diversity, and ability to effectively work in a global, multi-national matrix organization.
• In-depth understanding of backup technologies, specifically Commvault, in large-scale dispersed environments.
• Expertise and knowledge of modern cloud backup technologies (Azure Backup, AWS Backup, etc.).
• Experience with Commvault for massive restore and Integrated Recovery Environments.
• Experience in backup monitoring at large scale in a multi-backup tools context (preferably using Bocada and ServiceNow).
• Technical background in digital technologies for infrastructures with strong performance, maintainability, scalability, availability, security, and accessibility requirements.
• Experience in automation to enhance operations (Ansible, Terraform, Python, Commvault API, etc.).
• Knowledge of Agile frameworks to develop effectively and efficiently.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Fluency in English is mandatory.

Nice to have

• Acronis experience.

Details

• Location: Indian hub (Hyderabad).