Dell Storage & Backup Administrator

Build your career with Accenture in Ballarat

At Accenture, you will work with talented people, leading technologies and global expertise to solve complex challenges for some of Australia’s largest organisations.

This is an opportunity to build a rewarding technology career in Ballarat—combining complex enterprise work and access to Accenture’s global network with the lifestyle and community of a regional location. You will join a collaborative local team, continue developing your expertise and take ownership of critical storage and data-protection services.

If you are looking for senior-level technical work without needing to base your career in a capital city, this could be the opportunity for you.

The opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Senior Dell Storage and Backup Administrator to support a large-scale enterprise environment.

You will take ownership of storage performance, capacity planning and data protection across Dell PowerMAX, NetWorker, Data Domain and ECS platforms. You will also lead complex recovery activities, resolve Level 3 incidents and work closely with infrastructure, virtualisation and database teams.

This role would suit a hands-on storage specialist who enjoys solving complex problems, improving platform performance and providing trusted technical guidance.

What you’ll do

• Administer Dell PowerMAX storage arrays, including provisioning, performance tuning and lifecycle management.

• Manage Dell EMC NetWorker backup infrastructure, including client configuration, policies, schedules and recovery operations.

• Administer Dell Data Domain appliances across replication, capacity management and performance monitoring.

• Manage Dell ECS for enterprise object-storage workloads.

• Monitor storage capacity and performance and provide clear trend analysis and planning recommendations.

• Lead data-recovery activities and manage backup compliance reporting.

• Resolve complex Level 3 storage and backup incidents.

• Participate in change advisory processes for storage-related changes.

• Collaborate with server, virtualisation and database teams on storage design and integration.

• Maintain technical documentation, including runbooks, architecture records and capacity plans.

• Contribute to storage upgrade and technology-refresh projects.

What you’ll bring

• Extensive experience in enterprise storage and backup administration, ideally within a complex, large-scale environment.

• Expert hands-on experience with Dell PowerMAX or VMAX storage arrays.

• Strong Dell EMC NetWorker administration skills, including client configuration, policy management and recovery.

• Proficiency in Dell Data Domain administration, including replication and Boost protocol.

• Experience administering Dell ECS object storage.

• Sound understanding of SAN fabric concepts and Fibre Channel zoning.

• The ability to analyse storage performance data and provide practical capacity-planning recommendations.

• Experience working within ITIL-based incident, change and problem-management processes.

• Strong communication skills and confidence working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to work in a hybrid arrangement based in Ballarat.

Bonus points if you have

• Dell storage certifications such as DECS or DCS.

• VMware vSphere storage integration experience across VMFS and NFS datastores.

• Brocade or Cisco MDS SAN fabric administration experience.

• Familiarity with Dell Unity or PowerStore.

• PowerShell or Python scripting and automation skills.

Why Accenture?

At Accenture, you will be supported to learn, grow and build a career that reflects your strengths and ambitions. You will have access to industry-leading learning, diverse career pathways and a global network of technology specialists—all while contributing to meaningful work from our Ballarat location.

You will join an inclusive and collaborative culture where different perspectives are valued and people are encouraged to bring their best ideas to the table.

Ready to bring your storage and backup expertise to an exciting enterprise environment in Ballarat? Apply now.

Accenture is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

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About Accenture

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