About the job

Storage and Backup Engineer

Our Client is currently recruiting for a Storage and Backup Engineer, to join on an initial 6-month contract.

Rate: £465 per day UmbrellaDuration: 6 monthsHours: 36.5 hours per week

We are looking for an experienced infrastructure professional with strong hands-on experience across enterprise storage, backup and 3rd line infrastructure support.

Key Responsibilities & ExperienceStorageHands-on experience administering and supporting NetApp storage systems
Strong experience with NetApp ONTAP / Clustered ONTAP
Experience with Qumulo would be beneficial but is not essential
Strong understanding of aggregates, volumes, LUNs and qtrees
Experience with NFS and CIFS/SMB
Strong understanding of Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs)
Experience with Snapshots and SnapMirror
Design and support of enterprise storage solutions
Capacity planning and performance tuning
High availability, HA pairs and clustering
Firmware and ONTAP upgrades
Storage migrations and data lifecycle management

BackupStrong understanding of backup fundamentals, including full and incremental backups
Retention policies and lifecycle management
RPO and RTO
Disaster recovery principles
Data integrity validation and restore testing
Hands-on experience with enterprise backup platforms such as Cohesity and/or Rubrik
Experience backing up and restoring enterprise databases
Experience protecting VM-based infrastructure
Understanding of image-level backups and application-consistent snapshots

3rd Line Infrastructure SupportExperience working within broad 3rd line ticketing queues
Operating system support
Entry-level VMware support
NTFS permissions
General systems administration

About YouStrong troubleshooting and analytical skills
Ability to work independently within complex enterprise environments
Clear documentation and communication skills
Strong enterprise infrastructure support background

📩 Interested? Please message me directly or send across your CV for consideration.

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