Infrastructure and Backup Engineer - Hybrid in Barcelona

Michael Page; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 80.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Michael Page is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Backup Engineer for enterprise environments. You will lead design, implementation, and operation of complex infrastructure across on-premises, private cloud, and Azure, with a strong focus on backup, recovery, and data protection in regulated sectors.

You will act as a senior technical escalation point, mentor engineers, and guide customer delivery during migrations.

Responsabilidades

• Design, implement, and support complex infrastructure across on-premises, private cloud, and Azure environments
• Design and operate enterprise-grade backup, recovery, and data protection with RPO/RTO alignment
• Lead planning, execution, and validation of backup, restore, and disaster recovery activities
• Ensure infrastructure and backup services are available, performant, and operating as designed
• Escalate infrastructure and backup incidents and changes
• Lead root cause analyses for major incidents and recovery failures
• Provide guidance during high-risk changes and outages
• Mentor junior engineers and develop the team
• Act as customer-facing technical lead during complex implementations and migrations
• Support pre-sales activities including design, validation, and technical assurance
• Provide credible technical communication to senior customer stakeholders
• Ensure solutions meet time, cost, quality, and regulatory expectations
• Work with PM and Service Delivery to transition into live service
• Ensure infrastructure and backup services are documented, tested, and ready
• Support upgrades, refreshes, and decommissioning
• Participate in on-call rotations and out-of-hours support
• Identify and deliver improvements to infrastructure, backup platforms, tooling, and processes
• Support product and service development including vendor selection, testing, and operations
• Maintain and improve documentation, runbooks, and knowledge artefacts
• Ensure services comply with financial regulations and frameworks (e.g. FCA, PRA, DORA, ISO 27001, SOC)
• Design and operate solutions that support resilience, business continuity, and disaster recovery
• Maintain audit-ready documentation, recovery evidence, and control records
• Support regulatory audits, customer assurance activities, and risk assessments
• Ensure data protection, encryption, access control, and segregation requirements are met
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, diagrams, and recovery artefacts
• Contribute to service reporting, risk tracking, and improvement actions
• Support governance forums, service reviews, and technical design authorities
• Ensure backup and infrastructure metrics support compliance and assurance needs
• Opportunity to lead critical infrastructure and data protection solutions for enterprise environments
• Work on complex, high-impact systems with strong focus on resilience and recovery
• Exposure to Azure, private cloud, and advanced backup technologies
• Senior role with technical ownership and customer interaction
• Strong career progression within a high-performance engineering environment

Descripción del empleo

• Lead critical infrastructure and backup solutions
• Work on high-impact, mission-critical environments

A well-established international technology services company specialising in cloud, infrastructure, and managed services. It partners with enterprise clients, including regulated industries, delivering secure, resilient, and high-quality solution.

Essential Roles & Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Backup Engineering

• Design, implement, and support complex infrastructure solutions across on‑premises, private cloud, and Azure environments
• Design and operate enterprise‑grade backup, recovery, and data protection solutions, ensuring alignment with RPO/RTO requirements
• Lead planning, execution, and validation of backup, restore, and disaster recovery activities
• Ensure infrastructure and backup services are available, performant, and operating as designed

Senior Technical Leadership

• Act as senior technical escalation point for infrastructure and backup‑related incidents and changes
• Lead root cause analysis for major incidents and recovery failures
• Provide expert guidance and decision‑making during high‑risk changes and outages
• Mentor junior engineers and support skills development across the team

Customer Delivery & Engagement

• Act as a customer‑facing technical lead during complex implementations and migrations
• Support pre‑sales activities including solution design, validation, and technical assurance
• Provide confident, credible technical communication to senior customer stakeholders
• Ensure customer solutions are delivered to time, cost, quality, and regulatory expectations

Service Transition & Lifecycle Management

• Work closely with Project Management and Service Delivery teams to ensure smooth transition into live service
• Ensure infrastructure and backup services are fully documented, tested, and operationally ready
• Support lifecycle activities including upgrades, refreshes, and decommissioning
• Participate in on‑call rotations and support out‑of‑hours activities where required

Continuous Improvement & Product Development

• Identify and deliver improvements to infrastructure, backup platforms, tooling, and processes
• Support product and service development including vendor selection, testing, and operationalisation
• Maintain and improve documentation, runbooks, and knowledge artefacts

Financial Services & Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure infrastructure and backup services comply with financial services regulations and frameworks (e.g. FCA, PRA, DORA, ISO 27001, SOC)
• Design and operate solutions that support operational resilience, business continuity, and disaster recovery
• Maintain audit‑ready documentation, recovery evidence, and control records
• Support regulatory audits, customer assurance activities, and risk assessments
• Ensure data protection, encryption, access control, and segregation requirements are met

Governance & Reporting

• Maintain accurate technical documentation, diagrams, and recovery artefacts
• Contribute to service reporting, risk tracking, and improvement actions
• Support governance forums, service reviews, and technical design authorities
• Ensure backup and infrastructure metrics support compliance and assurance needs

Teams to Collaborate With

• Customer Experience & Managed Service
• Project Management Office
• Cloud, Platform & Security Teams
• Portfolio / Product Management
• Quality, Risk & Compliance

• Opportunity to lead critical infrastructure and data protection solutions for enterprise environments
• Work on complex, high-impact systems with strong focus on resilience and recovery
• Exposure to Azure, private cloud, and advanced backup technologies
• Senior role with technical ownership and customer interaction
• Strong career progression within a high-performance engineering environment