Data Storage Engineer

Senior Storage Engineer | Global Banking Organisation

6 month contract, £630 per day inside IR35

London | 4 days in the office

We’re partnering with a leading global banking organisation seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to join a critical infrastructure team responsible for enterprise storage and backup technologies across the EMEA region.

This is a highly technical, hands-on role supporting business-critical data platforms within a complex, regulated environment. Working closely with the Head of Storage, you’ll play a key role in maintaining, improving and evolving the organisation’s storage, backup and archival infrastructure across both banking and securities environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide SME-level support and technical ownership across enterprise storage infrastructure including block, file and object storage platforms
• Manage and maintain critical storage and backup environments ensuring high availability, resilience and SLA adherence
• Support strategic storage initiatives including infrastructure roadmap, architecture standards and platform improvements
• Design, deploy and upgrade storage technologies across production environments
• Monitor system performance, capacity and operational health, identifying areas for optimisation and improvement
• Support backup and recovery operations including data restores, failed backup remediation and policy compliance
• Work closely with infrastructure, risk, controls and project teams to support business and regulatory requirements
• Develop automation and scripting solutions to improve operational efficiency
• Participate in change management processes and represent storage changes at CAB meetings where required
• Act as deputy to the Head of Storage when required, supporting workload prioritisation and team oversight

Key Skills & Experience:

• Strong enterprise storage engineering experience within large-scale or regulated environments
• Deep technical knowledge of block, file, object storage and SAN technologies including: EMC Unity, EMC VNX, EMC ECS, EMC Isilon, EMC PowerStore, Pure Storage, Cisco MDS fabric switches
• Working knowledge of enterprise backup technologies including EMC Networker and IBM TSM
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical infrastructure environments
• Scripting and automation experience using PowerShell or Python highly desirable
• Exposure to Rubrik advantageous
• Strong understanding of operational support, capacity management, incident management and change control processes