Backup and Storage Engineer

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About Us

The OSB Group is a FTSE 250 specialist mortgage lender, primarily focused on carefully selected segments of the mortgage market.

Our specialist lending is supported by our Kent Reliance and Charter Savings Bank retail savings franchises. Diversification of funding is provided by sophisticated securitisation platforms. OSB’s unique cost-efficient operating model is supported by our wholly-owned subsidiary OSBIndia.

Alongside passion for our products and customers, we're passionate about our people and want to continue building a collaborative and engaging environment. Being dedicated to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we encourage differences and recognise that individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences can bring valuable insights and enhance the way we work. This is supported by our Diversity, Community and Environment Employee Engagement Networks and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter and Women in Leadership Programme.

What you will be doing

The Backup & Storage Engineer will provide technical expertise and guidance working closely with technical teams, architects and customers in all areas of data protection. They must be able to provide support to BAU teams in resolving complex issues, restoring data, performance tuning and write and maintain required technical documentation.

This role is within our VMware, Storage and Backup team who provide operational support for our HPE/Dell storage technologies whilst providing the underpinning backup and disaster recovery solutions based within the DCs. You will be working within a team to deliver an outstanding level of Storage & Backup Administration (to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot, and support servers, storage & backup systems) across our systems, ensuring that all the systems meet or exceed their SLA's for their customers.

Responsibilities include:

1. Ensure enterprise scalability and performance for storage and backup environments through proactive capacity planning, performance control and configuration adjustment.
2. Monitor the ongoing operation of the systems and provide utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions as needed.
3. Monitor performance, errors, and warnings on compute and storage systems.
4. Maintain storage & compute policies and standards.
5. Troubleshoot performance problems and propose short term fixes and long-term solutions.
6. Ensure the compute & storage estate is kept up to date with regular patching & maintenance of the underlying infrastructure.

In return for your commitment

We offer a base salary dependent on experience of between £46,000 - £55,000 and a competitive benefits package including:

1. Discretionary annual bonus opportunity of up to 15%.
2. 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
3. Contributory pension (8% employer, 5% employee).
4. Life Assurance (4x salary) plus Group Income Protection.
5. Access to Private Medical Insurance and Medical Cash Plan.
6. Additional benefits such as Hybrid working, Cycle Purchase scheme, Technology Purchase scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Holiday purchase / sell schemes, Employee Perk Portals, Payroll giving and Save as you Earn scheme.

Candidate requirements:

• Demonstrable experience working with multi-vendor SAN Storage, Enterprise Backup technologies, and connectivity fabric.
• Excellent knowledge managing corporate backup environments (Dell IDPA PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup, Zerto).
• Ability to work independently, troubleshoot complex issues, and engage with third parties.
• Working knowledge of VMware vSphere and Microsoft Windows platforms.

What to do next

If this sounds like you, please apply now! For internal applications, visit the internal careers page to apply. For a confidential chat, contact us via the details on our careers page.

We are committed to diversity and equal opportunities. We support initiatives to attract, develop, and promote diversity at all levels, including our leadership's active involvement.

We value flexible working arrangements; please inquire about options to support a healthy work-life balance.

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK and be willing to undergo pre-employment screening.