IT & Software

Storage & Backup SME

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

As a Storage & Backup Engineer, you will own the backup and storage estate across EMEA and beyond, ensuring data protection and availability for a major financial services group. You’ll shape roadmaps and architecture standards, drive backup success, and manage capacity to support growth. The role combines hands-on administration with strategic oversight, including governance, risk and DR readiness. You will act as a SME for storage and backup, and may take on team leadership responsibilities over time.

Responsibilities
  • Take technical ownership of online and offline storage and backup technologies across EMEA and beyond
  • Design, implement, and administer data backup systems with patching and vendor-aligned maintenance
  • Monitor backup success rates, diagnose failures, and drive improvements
  • Ensure backups meet policy, retention, and reliable restore timelines
  • Maintain SLA/KPI compliance, high availability, and IT risk/security controls
  • Manage capacity and roadmap for upgrades and legacy rationalisation
  • Contribute storage components to change programmes and support audits and BCP/DR readiness
  • Act as SME consultancy for other teams and identify automation opportunities
  • Deputise for Head of Storage on people management and workload prioritisation
Key requirements
  • Minimum 5 years' experience with enterprise backup solutions, specifically Dell EMC NetWorker and Rubrik
  • Hands-on expertise with EMC Unity, EMC Isilon, EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) and Cisco SAN switches
  • Strong Red Hat Linux skills and experience with Kemp load balancers
  • Track record of running storage and backup platforms in mission-critical environments with emphasis on availability and restore reliability
  • Comfort working within an IT risk and control framework including audits and privileged access control
  • Desirable: experience with databases, networking, VMware, Windows/Active Directory; capacity to manage team workload; experience in financial services or regulated environments
  • ownership and accountability
  • stakeholder management
  • mentoring and coaching
  • Dell EMC NetWorker
  • Rubrik
  • EMC Unity

Reference: WJ-747_31161181

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