Senior Infrastructure Engineer Compute & Storage

The opportunity

The Edge Data Center team protects the data that keeps APM Terminals running across a globally distributed estate of edge sites. When something fails the ability to recover fast cleanly and predictably is what keeps terminal operations moving.

As Senior Infrastructure Engineer Backup & Recovery you own the backup and disaster-recovery capability across this estate spanning both on-premise platforms and cloud workloads. You are the person the team trusts to guarantee that data is protected that recovery works when its needed and that our RPO and RTO commitments are met in practice not just on paper.

What youll do

• Design Deploy operate and continuously improve backup and recovery services across the global edge estate on-premise and cloud against agreed service levels.
• Own the health of the backup environment day to day: policies schedules job success rates capacity retention and reporting.
• Lead disaster-recovery design and execution replication failover and regular evidenced DR testing ensuring RPO/RTO targets are met and validated.
• Run recovery operations under pressure: restore quickly and correctly during incidents and drive the root cause so failures dont repeat.
• Standardise and automate backup operations to reduce manual effort and improve reliability and consistency across sites.
• Manage the strategic backup vendor relationship and act as the senior technical escalation point for anything backup or recovery related.
• Partner with platform cloud and modernization teams to ensure new and migrated workloads are protected from day one.

Technical skills

Primary (must have):

• Commvault design administration and operations at enterprise scale
• Microsoft Azure Backup (and Azure Site Recovery / equivalent cloud-native protection)
• Enterprise backup for on-premise and cloud workloads including other leading products (e.g. Veeam Rubrik Cohesity NetBackup)
• Disaster recovery: replication failover/failback DR testing and meeting RPO/RTO commitments
• Automation and scripting (e.g. PowerShell Python) to standardise and streamline backup operations

Secondary (advantageous):

• Virtualization platforms (VMware Nutanix) and their backup integration
• Broader Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) fundamentals
• Storage and data-protection architecture in distributed environments

Experience & qualifications

• Relevant experience: 810 years focused on enterprise backup recovery and disaster recovery across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Total experience: 1014 years in IT infrastructure / data center operations.
• Proven hands-on ownership of a backup and recovery estate at scale not just administering jobs but designing the capability and being accountable for recoverability.
• Real experience running recoveries and DR tests under pressure with evidence of meeting RPO/RTO targets.
• Comfortable operating in a large globally distributed organisation across timezones.
• Relevant certifications (e.g. Commvault Microsoft Azure) are valued; equivalent demonstrated experience is equally welcome.

Who you are

• Dependable under pressure. When a recovery is needed you stay calm methodical and fast people trust you to bring the data back.
• Rigorous and evidence-driven. You dont assume backups work; you prove it test it and report it clearly.
• A clear communicator. You keep the right people informed during incidents and translate technical status into plain honest updates.
• Ownership-minded. You take responsibility for recoverability end to end and drive improvement without being asked.

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