Back & Storage Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced infrastructure professional specialising in Enterprise Backup & Recovery, Storage and Data Resilience on behalf of a client.

In this role, you will lead the management, optimisation and modernisation of enterprise backup and storage platforms supporting mission-critical technology environments. You will play a key role in strengthening data resilience, cyber recovery, disaster recovery readiness and infrastructure reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise backup and recovery operations across databases, virtual machines, physical servers and critical business applications.
• Manage and optimise enterprise backup technologies such as Commvault Backup & Recovery, Oracle RMAN and Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA).
• Lead restoration, disaster recovery, cyber recovery and ransomware recovery activities.
• Manage enterprise storage infrastructure, including provisioning, performance optimisation, capacity planning, replication and lifecycle management.
• Design and implement backup retention, archival, replication and recovery strategies aligned with business continuity and resilience requirements.
• Conduct recovery validation and support disaster recovery drills, audits, compliance and governance activities.
• Provide technical leadership during major incidents, conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure and product teams to maintain secure, reliable and resilient technology operations.
• Identify opportunities to automate and modernise infrastructure operations, improving efficiency and reliability.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to infrastructure architecture, technology planning and roadmaps.

Requirements

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of hands-on enterprise infrastructure experience, with strong exposure to Backup and recovery, Enterprise storage, Virtualisation Windows and Linux environments, Disaster recovery and business continuity
• Experience with Commvault, Oracle RMAN and/or ZDLRA would be highly relevant.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical capabilities within complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to take technical ownership and coordinate teams during high-severity incidents and recovery situations.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across infrastructure, cybersecurity and application/product teams.
• Strong ownership, accountability and a continuous-improvement mindset.
• Strong interest in infrastructure reliability, data resilience and operational excellence.
• Comfortable working as part of a team providing 24x7 operational support.
  

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Disaster recovery planning and testing
Ransomware
Continuous Improvement
Oracle Recovery Manager
Reliability Engineering Management
Operational Delivery Teams
technical analysis and troubleshooting
Computer Science
Replication
Business Resilience
Working alongside Product Teams
Cybersecurity
Oracle Toolset
Technical Leadership
database backups
Incident Management