Enterprise Backup & Recovery Engineer

Evapco; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 71,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Ownership Program

Profit Sharing Bonus

Paid Holidays

Paid Vacation

Parental Leave

Job summary

Evapco seeks a Backup and Recovery Engineer to design, administer, monitor, and improve enterprise backup, recovery, and data resilience across on‑premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. This role protects the availability, integrity, and recoverability of systems by aligning policies and procedures with business and cybersecurity needs.

The engineer will own backup platforms, manage daily operations, troubleshoot failures, perform restorations, and contribute to disaster recovery exercises,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related discipline or equivalent professional experience
• Minimum of three years hands-on enterprise backup and recovery experience
• Demonstrated experience administering at least one enterprise backup platform (Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, Cohesity, Datto, Dell PowerProtect or similar)
• Experience supporting backup/restoration for Windows and Linux servers, virtualized environments, file services, databases, and cloud workloads
• Knowledge of on-prem NAS/SAN, snapshots, deduplication, file partitioning, and segmentation
• Understanding of backup architecture, retention, replication, recovery points, immutability, encryption, storage repositories, and data lifecycle management
• Ability to troubleshoot complex backup failures and execute restorations/restorations successfully
• Familiarity with RPO/RTO, disaster recovery, business continuity, change/incident management, and operational documentation practices
• Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration with technical teams, vendors, and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and optimize backup/recovery platforms across on‑premises, cloud, virtual, database, file, and SaaS environments
• Configure backup policies, schedules, retention, replication, encryption, deduplication, repositories, and capacity
• Investigate backup failures, perform root-cause analysis, implement corrective actions
• Execute and validate file, application, database, VM, system-state, bare-metal, and point-in-time recoveries
• Define/maintain recovery objectives, restoration procedures, dependency maps, runbooks and technical docs
• Conduct routine restore testing, DR exercises, and cyber recovery simulations; document results/remediation
• Design/maintain secure, resilient backup architectures with least privilege, MFA, encryption, immutability, offline copies
• Support incident response, critical recoveries, change management, audits and compliance related to backup/recovery
• Track service health, capacity, recovery performance, SLA attainment; coordinate upgrades, licensing, lifecycle
• Automate tasks and reporting; evaluate new tech; advise teams on backup onboarding/recoverability

Skills

Backup & recovery expertise

Strong communication skills

Disaster recovery planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / CS / Cybersecurity / Engineering or related

Tools

Veeam

Commvault

Rubrik

Cohesity

Datto

Dell PowerProtect

PowerShell

Python

REST API

Job description

Evapco seeks a Backup and Recovery Engineer to design, administer, monitor, and improve enterprise backup, recovery, and data resilience across on‑premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. This role protects the availability, integrity, and recoverability of systems by aligning policies and procedures with business and cybersecurity needs.

The engineer will own backup platforms, manage daily operations, troubleshoot failures, perform restorations, and contribute to disaster recovery exercises,