2nd Line Storage Engineer -

Fujitsu Careers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave

Pension – double matching up to 10%

Life assurance

Companywide incentive plans

Flexible benefits

Perks at work – employee discounts

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Fujitsu in Stevenage is seeking a 2nd Line Backup & Storage Engineer to join a team of 2nd and 3rd line engineers. You will manage enterprise storage platforms, resolve incidents, and ensure availability across data centres, with a focus on NetApp storage and Cohesity backups.

The role includes NAS/SAN administration, VMware integration, capacity planning, upgrades, and change control while documenting outcomes and contributing to service improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience handling Severity 1 and 2 incidents with RCA.
• Proven understanding of NetApp storage in enterprise environments.
• Experience with NAS/SAN concepts and VMware integration.
• Familiarity with storage hardware troubleshooting.
• Security clearance level required to fulfil the role.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day support, management and development of enterprise storage platforms.
• Resolve incidents, service requests and problem tickets within SLAs/KPIs.
• Monitor and manage NetApp storage and Cohesity backup environments across data centres.
• Administer NAS and SAN, including VMware integration, fabric switches, zoning and troubleshooting.
• Plan and execute storage software/firmware upgrades and document outcomes.

Skills

Severity 1/2 incident handling

NetApp storage (enterprise-scale)

NetApp hardware understanding

NAS/SAN principles

VMware integration with NetApp

Tools

NetApp tools

VMware

Cohesity backup

Job description

Location Flexibility: Primary Location Only

Posting Start Date: 8/4/26

At Fujitsu, our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. Founded in Japan in 1935, Fujitsu has been a pioneer in technology and innovation for decades. Today, as a world-leading digital transformation partner, we are committed to transforming business and society in the digital age.

With approximately 130,000 employees across over 50 countries, Fujitsu offers a broad range of products, services, and solutions. We collaborate with our customers to co-create solutions that drive enterprise-wide digitalization while actively working to address social issues and contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE IS BASED IN STEVENAGE

We are looking for a 2nd Line Backup & Storage Engineer to join our team of 2nd and 3rd Line engineers. Your role will involve assisting high profile user community, and daily contact with customers and stake holders utilising the IT Service Management Toolset.

2nd Line Backup & Storage Engineer

Office location is at Stevenage

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As an 2nd Line System Engineer, you will contribute to this by working with new technologies within a team that values the sharing of ideas to build a better service.

Your role will involve the day-to-day support, management, and development of enterprise storage platforms, with responsibility for resolving incidents, service requests, and problem tickets within agreed SLAs and KPIs. You will monitor and manage large-scale Netapp Storage and Cohesity backup environments across three data centre sites, ensuring availability, performance and resilience. You will be responsible for NAS and SAN administration, including VMware integration, fabric switch configuration, zoning and troubleshooting. The role includes capacity management and reporting, proactively identifying risks and constraints, and implementing remedial actions where required. Creating work processes and documenting the working outcomes. You will plan and execute storage software and firmware upgrades, ensuring minimal service impact and adherence to customer and Fujitsu standards and change control processes. The position can also involve installing and commissioning new Storage/Backup hardware to be completed and delivered within target timescales. In addition, your role will involve raising and presenting change requests and contribute to continuous service improvement initiatives. Knowledge sharing is also vital to help grow the team’s capability and experience across the estate. You will be working from assigned service desk tickets to Investigate, assess and resolve customer and system issues in timescales laid down in SLA’s in accordance with defined procedures and adhere to all IS Policy documents, including Change & Release, Configuration, and Security etc… Maintain the security of the network services in accordance with the Establishment’s Security Operating Orders and current process documentation.

Your transferable skills and experience:

• Capable of handling Severity 1 & 2 Incidents and provide RCA information
• Understanding of Netapp Storage Engineer in enterprise-scale environments.
• Understanding of Netapp Storage Hardware
• Knowledge of general NAS/SAN principles
• Understanding of VMware integration with Netapp

Security clearance level is required to fulfil this position with a requirement to meet higher level on joining, if not already held. This will be a minimum requirement to be able to fulfil the role obligations.

Hours of work: Our support requirements are Mon-Fri between 0700 & 1900. You will cover 37 hours over the week with a typical day from 0700 – 1530 or 1030 – 1900. There is no weekend working, however overtime may be available, which may include weekends .

• 26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)
• Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%
• Life assurance
• Companywide incentive plans
• Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays/ travel/ dental critical illness and more)
• Perks at work – employee discounts
• Employee assistance programme/ virtual GP

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of one stage of interviews.

Achieve together

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer:

Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader , a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric:

Our work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion.

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At Fujitsu, we are committed to an inclusive recruitment process that values the diverse backgrounds and experiences of all applicants. We believe that hiring people from a wide variety of backgrounds makes us stronger, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it allows us to draw on a wider range of perspectives and life experiences.