Senior NetBackup Solution Architect (SC Cleared)

Senior NetBackup Solution Architect (SC Cleared)

London, UK

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Senior NetBackup Solution Architect to join a specialist Professional Services team delivering complex enterprise data protection and cyber resilience solutions across highly regulated customer environments.

This is a customer-facing architecture and consulting role, where you will lead technical engagements from discovery and design through to implementation and knowledge transfer. You will work directly with enterprise customers, acting as a trusted advisor to define backup, recovery, and cyber resilience strategies that align with business and operational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical workshops, architecture discussions, and design engagements with enterprise customers.
• Design and deliver enterprise-scale backup, recovery, and cyber resilience solutions.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and supportable technical architectures.
• Provide expertise across NetBackup environments, including upgrades, migrations, and modernisation projects.
• Drive solution design and implementation activities alongside internal engineering and project delivery teams.
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), and technical documentation.
• Deliver executive-level presentations and technical briefings to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure solutions are aligned with security, governance, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Act as the technical authority throughout the project life cycle.

Essential Skills & Experience

Must Have

• Active SC Clearance
• 8+ years hands-on experience with Veritas NetBackup
• Strong experience with:
  • NetBackup Administration
  • NetBackup Upgrades and Migrations
  • NetBackup Appliances
  • Backup and Recovery Architecture
  • Enterprise Data Protection solutions
• Experience designing highly available and resilient backup platforms.
• Strong understanding of:
  • Disaster Recovery (DR)
  • Business Continuity
  • Cyber Recovery
  • Ransomware Protection
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers.
• Proven solution architecture experience within large-scale environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills.

Highly Desirable

• NetBackup Flex Appliances
• NetBackup Flex Scale
• MSDP
• CloudCatalyst
• Auto Image Replication (AIR)
• VMware backup solutions
• Oracle backup integrations
• SQL Server backup solutions
• Tape and Disk-based backup architectures
• Data domain or enterprise storage platforms

Cloud & Infrastructure Experience

Experience with one or more of the following:

• Microsoft Azure
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• VMware vSphere
• Windows Server
• Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu)

Automation & Scripting

Experience with:

• Ansible
• Puppet
• PowerShell
• Python
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Ideal Background

We are particularly interested in professionals who have worked as:

• NetBackup Architect
• Senior NetBackup Consultant
• Data Protection Architect
• Backup & Recovery Architect
• Enterprise Storage Architect
• Professional Services Consultant
• NetBackup Flex Specialist
• Technical Solution Architect
• Cyber Recovery Architect

What Success Looks Like

You'll be the go-to technical authority for enterprise customers, helping them modernise and secure their backup and recovery estates while delivering best-practice architecture and exceptional customer outcomes.

If you have deep NetBackup expertise, customer-facing consulting experience, and an active SC clearance, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or contact us for a confidential discussion.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.