Senior Technology Engineer, Backup & Storage

Overview

Own the engineering lifecycle of backup, storage, and cyber recovery platforms for a high-availability, high-transaction-volume banking environment, working within a platform squad that drives delivery across design, development, implementation, standardisation, automation, and capacity planning.

What you'll do

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery solutions across on-premise, virtualised, and cloud workloads
• Build and operate cyber recovery capabilities, including isolated recovery vaults, immutable backups, air-gapped copies, and ransomware recovery testing
• Define and enforce backup policies, retention schedules, and RPO/RTO targets aligned with regulatory and business requirements
• Run regular restore and DR drills, and document recoverability evidence for audit
• Manage storage capacity planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle of storage and backup infrastructure
• Act as the Linux subject matter expert, covering hardening, patching, and OS compliance against security baselines
• Automate deployment, configuration, and backup operations using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools
• Manage virtualisation environments and their integration with backup platforms
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, storage, and application issues with development and operations teams
• Configure compute, storage, and networking services on Azure, AWS, or OCI, including cloud native backup
• Own projects from inception to production, covering design, build, test, handover, and BAU support
• Apply DevOps, SRE, IaC, and 12 Factor principles to infrastructure delivery
• Integrate platform components into CI/CD pipelines
• Contribute to technology stack reduction and platform cost optimisation targets
• Handle BAU incidents and root cause analysis for backup failures and storage issues
• Work with the wider infrastructure team to keep deliverables consistent across platforms
• Collaborate with the security function to align with security standards and contribute to design forums
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and manage expectations under pressure

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years in infrastructure engineering or operations, with at least 3 years in a similar senior role
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise data protection platforms such as Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect / Avamar / Data Domain, Veeam, Rubrik, or Cohesity
• Practical experience with cyber recovery solutions such as vault architectures and immutable storage
• Expert Linux administration (RHEL, Oracle Linux, or similar)
• Solid understanding of enterprise storage (SAN, NAS, object storage)
• Experience with virtualisation technologies, ideally VMware
• Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably Terraform, plus configuration management with Ansible or similar
• Exposure to Kubernetes or OpenShift and backup of containerised workloads
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrations
• Hands-on configuration of public cloud services on Azure, AWS, or OCI
• Experience in large, complex enterprises with high availability requirements, ideally banking or financial services

Nice to have

• Certifications such as Commvault Professional, Veritas NetBackup, Dell Data Protection, RHCE, VMware VCP, CKA, or Azure/AWS associate level
• Knowledge of banking regulatory requirements around data retention and resilience
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell

Details

• Matrix structure, reporting to the head of the infrastructure engineering function
• Client is a leading Middle East banking group