Storage & Backup Engineer

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Storage & Backup Engineer based in United Kingdom.

We are looking for an experienced Storage & Backup Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise-level storage and data protection infrastructure. You will oversee critical storage systems, backup platforms, and recovery solutions in complex, heterogeneous IT environments. The role combines architecture, engineering, hands-on administration, and advanced troubleshooting to ensure infrastructure remains secure, resilient, and highly available. You will contribute to infrastructure projects, technology migrations, capacity planning, and service improvements while supporting demanding operational requirements. Working alongside infrastructure teams and technical stakeholders, you will help strengthen disaster recovery capabilities and optimize day-to-day operations. This is an opportunity to take ownership of critical infrastructure services in an international, remote-friendly environment.

Accountabilities You will be responsible for the engineering, administration, and continuous improvement of enterprise storage and backup environments, ensuring reliable service delivery and effective data protection. Your main responsibilities will include:

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Architecture and implementation: Design and deploy enterprise storage and backup architectures aligned with business requirements, availability targets, recovery objectives, capacity needs, and security standards.

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Infrastructure administration: Manage and maintain storage arrays, SAN fabrics, and backup platforms, including health checks, storage provisioning, host integration, backup client configuration, scheduling, retention policies, and replication.

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Infrastructure lifecycle management: Plan and execute installations, upgrades, migrations, capacity expansions, and proof-of-concept deployments, including testing, validation, and rollback procedures.

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Performance monitoring and optimization: Monitor system health, performance, capacity, and backup success rates; identify bottlenecks and implement improvements.

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Advanced technical support: Resolve incidents, problems, and service requests, provide Tier 3 support, lead root-cause analyses, and implement corrective and preventive measures.

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Backup and disaster recovery: Perform data restoration and recovery tests, participate in disaster recovery exercises, and validate data protection and recovery capabilities.

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Security and compliance: Apply infrastructure security controls, hardening standards, and approved configuration changes in accordance with established policies and change-management procedures.

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Vendor and stakeholder collaboration: Coordinate with vendors and internal support teams on maintenance, upgrades, interoperability, and complex technical issues.