Backup and Storage Engineer

Trafigura Group; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Backup and Storage Engineer to design and maintain secure backup infrastructure. The role emphasizes data protection, regulatory compliance, and system optimization, requiring a Bachelor’s degree and experience in storage management. You'll collaborate with teams to ensure data integrity and enhance business continuity in a dynamic and supportive environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in backup and storage management or a related field.
• Strong understanding of data storage capacity and performance concerns.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable, secure, and highly available storage solutions.
• Develop and implement data backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Optimize storage performance and capacity planning across the organization.

Skills

Problem-solving

Ability to improve business processes

Initiative

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field

Tools

Dell Avamar

Rubrik

Veeam

NetApp

Pure SAN

NAS

Object storage technology

Automation tooling

Python

Powershell

Ansible

Job description

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Backup and Storage Engineer

Apply locations London, United Kingdom time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R-016136

Main Purpose:

This role as Backup and Storage Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the backup and storage infrastructure for Trafigura. This role ensures that companies data is always stored securely, efficiently, and is backed up properly to prevent data loss and ensure business continuity. The Backup and Storage Engineer will work closely with Engineering and Operations teams to create scalable, cost-effective, and reliable data storage solutions that align with business needs and regulatory requirements.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

• Design and architect scalable, secure, and highly available storage solutions (on-premises, cloud, or hybrid).

• Develop and implement data backup and disaster recovery strategies, ensuring minimal downtime and data loss.

• Optimize storage performance, capacity planning, and cost management across the organization’s infrastructure.

• Oversee the integration of backup solutions with other enterprise systems and applications.

• Ensure compliance with data retention policies, regulatory requirements, and security standards.

• Monitor storage and backup systems for performance, availability, and health, implementing necessary improvements or troubleshooting issues.

• Evaluate and recommend new storage technologies, backup tools, and methodologies to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

• Automate backup processes and policies to enhance data protection and recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).

• Maintain documentation of storage and backup architectures, processes, and configurations.

• Collaborate with security teams to ensure data encryption, access control, and integrity for both storage and backup systems.

• Provide training and support to internal teams on best practices for data storage, backup, and recovery.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science; information technology or a related field.

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in backup and storage management or a related field.

Specialist Knowledge:

• Dell Avamar, Rubrik and Veeam data protection technology

• Experience running backup and storage systems from a global perspective

• NetApp and Pure SAN, NAS and Object storage technology

• Strong understanding of automation tooling and programming languages such as Python, Powershell, Ansible, get etc

• Strong understanding of data storage capacity and performance concerns

Competencies

• Problem-solving

• Ability to improve business processes

• Able to use initiative

• Strategic planning

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Key Relationships

-Platform Engineering Team

-Vendor management

-Windows Engineering Team

-Outsourced IT management

Department

Trafigura Group IT provides shared services across the Trafigura group of companies, offering services at scale where it makes economic sense.

Reporting Structure

The engineer will report to the Platform Architect and will join a team of six other engineers who work in a collaborative team covering the Storage, Linux and Virtualisation towers.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.

About Us

At the heart of global supply, Trafigura connects vital resources to power and build the world. Through our Metals and Minerals, Oil & Petroleum Products and Gas, Power and Renewables, commercial divisions, we use infrastructure, logistics and financing to connect producers and consumers, using our deep understanding of the markets we serve to make supply more efficient, secure and sustainable.

We are accelerating our investments in renewable energy, including hydrogen, ammonia and other low-carbon energy technologies required for the transition to a low carbon future. We are committed to responsible business practices and we work with our stakeholders to improve environmental and social standards, bringing greater trust and transparency to global supply chains.

A career at Trafigura offers a gateway to working on some of the most exciting challenges of a rapidly changing world – from helping to optimise supply chains to developing infrastructure and new markets. In a culture that is founded on openness and energy, our people work as part of a multinational, globally connected team and thrive in a fast-paced environment where they can nurture and commercialise bold ideas. Everyone has a voice and is empowered to collaborate across geographies and disciplines to help shape our business and the wider world. We know the importance and value of diversity in our business and we invest in attracting, developing and retaining talent from all backgrounds.

Founded in 1993, Trafigura is one of the largest independent employee-owned commodities groups in the world with over 12,000 people working across more than 60 offices. The Trafigura Group owns global multi-metals producer Nyrstar; fuel storage and distribution company Puma Energy; and joint ventures Impala Terminals, a port and logistics provider, and Nalo Renewables, investing in wind, solar and battery storage projects.