Storage and Backup Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Active SC Clearance
• Strong experience administering enterprise storage infrastructure
• Experience with SAN and NAS technologies
• Knowledge of storage replication, backup and disaster recovery solutions
• Experience supporting critical production environments with high availability requirements
• Strong understanding of ITIL processes including Incident, Problem and Change Management
• Experience working within secure and highly regulated environments
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Highly desirable: Dell PowerStore
• Highly desirable: Dell VNX
• Highly desirable: Brocade SAN Switches

Responsibilities

• Administer enterprise SAN and NAS storage environments
• Perform storage provisioning, allocation and capacity management activities
• Monitor and optimise storage performance and availability
• Manage storage replication, backup and disaster recovery solutions
• Support firmware upgrades, maintenance activities and infrastructure changes
• Investigate and resolve complex storage-related incidents and problems
• Work closely with Wintel, Linux, Database and Application teams
• Produce and maintain operational documentation, technical standards and runbooks
• Support change management and governance processes

Technologies

• Firmware
• Support
• ITIL
• Linux
• Security

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last updated 35 week of 2026