Storage and Backup Infrastructure Engineer

Are you a keen Infrastructure Engineer with knowledge of Storage and Backup?

Sopra Steria's Aerospace Defence and Security sector are currently recruiting for a Storage and Backup Engineer with the ability to hit the ground running and make a real difference in the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone with previous experience in SAN, NAS and backup technologies who is looking to develop their skills and become a technical expert. This role sits within a group level account putting you in the best place to progress.

This role is based on site at one of our regional hubs (Newport, Portsmouth or Stevenage) approximately 4 days per week.

Due to the nature of the client we are only able to progress with sole British citizens eligible for SC clearance.
What you'll be doing:

• Enthusiastic and keen to learn, looking to acquire the knowledge required to be a point of technical escalation.
• Strong customer focus encompassing BAU ticketing and task management across Storage and Backup spaces.
• Performing capacity planning, performance tuning, and storage optimisation across multiple environments.
• Working with projects team as required - Includes supporting upcoming unique, large scale, one of a kind, European-wide project.

What you'll bring:

• Working knowledge of storage services, hardware deployment, configuration, and administration (NetApp experience preferred).
• Strong Knowledge of NAS/SAN provisioning, NFS/SMB shares, storage virtual machines (SVMs).
• Experience upgrading storage appliances and processes required to do so.
• Knowledge of fibre channel zoning and LUN creation (preferable).
• Experience with Backup tooling and technologies (Veeam preferable). Snapshot-based backups and robotic library systems knowledge.
• Administration of backup technologies, policy design, scheduling, retention plans and restore and recovery workflows.
• Previous experience with regulatory, encryption, retention, and audit requirements a bonus.

If you're interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Newport
Security Clearance Level:
Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker
Salary: Up to £40,000
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.