
Storage & Backup Engineer
London, Greater London, South East, England
Apply by 26 Jul 2025
£60000 - £70000 per annum, Benefits: Bonus & Benefits
Job Ref.: BH-54442
Job Description
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Backup & Recovery Engineer to join our global financial services client. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the operational stability, supportability, and resilience of their enterprise-wide backup and recovery environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure the stability, performance, and supportability of global backup and recovery platforms through routine operational checks and adherence to data retention and lifecycle policies.
- Oversee product lifecycle management, including patching, upgrades, decommissioning, and capacity planning to support long-term infrastructure investment.
- Design, test, and improve monitoring, alerting, and automation for backup environments; ensure compliance with policies and standards.
- Manage backup configuration, including onboarding/decommissioning servers, setting policies, and conducting Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT).
- Deliver projects within scope, schedule, and budget, aligned with IT and business objectives.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Deep expertise in Backup & Recovery technologies, especially:
- Veeam Backup & Replication
- IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
- Strong knowledge of enterprise backup architecture, installation/configuration of backup tools, and troubleshooting performance or stability issues.
- Proven experience supporting large-scale backup environments (Veeam or TSM).
- Proficiency in at least one enterprise OS (e.g., Windows, Linux, AIX) and in creating technical documentation and best practice processes.
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.