Schlieren
Storage Specialist (m/f/d)
- 21 October 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent)
- 8952 Schlieren
About the job
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Storage Specialist (m/f/d)
Salary - CHF90,000 - 115,000Our Rocken partner represents selected companies that rely on exclusive collaboration with ROCKEN when filling their key positions. The jobs published here are managed under an exclusive mandate and are sometimes not advertised on the public job market.
Behind the vacancies are established Swiss companies from various industries that are specifically looking for qualified specialists and executives. Through close cooperation with our partners, we not only know the requirements of the respective position but also the company, the working environment, and the conditions.
This gives you access to exciting career opportunities from our hidden job market and to positions that you might not encounter on traditional job platforms.
Role:
A backup is only valuable if the restore works in an emergency. This certainty is what you create as a Senior System Engineer Storage in a demanding infrastructure. The focus is on enterprise platforms from NetApp and Pure Storage, which are closely integrated with VMware and KVM. You actively shape architectures and contribute your experience to technical decisions. This position is characterised by personal responsibility and technical depth.
Responsibilities:
You design backup, restore, and retention concepts for physical and virtualised servers and complement them with tamper-proof immutable storage.
You set up storage pools, volumes, LUNs, and shares and optimise them for utilisation and performance.
Furthermore, you operate services such as NFS, S3, and NDMP and seamlessly integrate the storage systems into the virtualisation platforms.
In case of issues related to data backup, performance, or capacity, you proceed methodically and find the root cause.
Additionally, you are responsible for storage migrations, hardware replacements, and firmware upgrades throughout the entire lifecycle and manage SAN components as well as tape libraries.
You continuously improve replication, disaster recovery processes, alerting, and capacity forecasts, thereby ensuring the availability of all secured data.
Qualifications:
You have built a solid foundation in infrastructure, storage, or backup engineering over at least 3 years.
You are experienced with enterprise storage. Experience with NetApp or Pure Storage is a clear advantage.
You are familiar with Network Attached Storage (NAS), SAN, and object storage from practice and confidently provision filesystems and LUNs.
Protection mechanisms such as WORM, immutable backups, and replication are as familiar to you as concepts for high availability.
Furthermore, you are confident working with VMware or KVM and have already managed SAN switches and tape libraries.
You tackle complex error patterns persistently and independently. You communicate clearly in German and read English technical documentation effortlessly.
Benefits:
- Home office
- Experienced and dynamic team
- Interesting and varied tasks/projects
- Flat hierarchies
- Coaching and mentoring
- Flexible working hours
- Open corporate culture
- Comfortable office with modern infrastructure
- Above-average holidays and days off
- Participation in or provision of company car
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Work location
Schlieren
Contact
Durim Ibrahimi,
+41443852136