Infrastructure Backup And Storage Analyst

Vallum; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Vallum in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Storage Engineer to manage and support enterprise backup solutions, focusing on Veritas NetBackup, HP StoreOnce, and Storage Area Network (SAN/NAS) environments.

You will configure, monitor, test recoveries, perform capacity planning, and contribute to disaster recovery planning and documentation. The role requires hands-on incident resolution and strong problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Experience managing enterprise backup/Storage environments.
• Ability to monitor storage infrastructure health and resolve incidents.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support Veritas NetBackup and storage solutions.
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot backup and restore operations.
• Perform backup validation and recovery testing.
• Tape rotation and retention management.
• Ensure scheduled backups complete and resolve failures promptly.
• Develop and maintain backup policies, schedules, and retention requirements.
• Administer SAN/NAS and storage resources for servers/apps.
• Monitor capacity, utilization, and performance; plan expansions.
• Support disaster recovery planning and execution; conduct drills.

Skills

Backup administration

Technical support

Root cause analysis

Incident management

Tools

Veritas NetBackup

HP StoreOnce

PowerMax

SAN/NAS administration

Job description

The Role

Your responsibilities:

• Manage and support enterprise backup solutions (Veritas NetBackup).
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot backup and restore operations.
• Perform regular backup validation and recovery testing.
• Tape rotation.
• Ensure successful completion of scheduled backups and resolve failures promptly.
• Develop and maintain backup policies, schedules, and retention requirements.
• Administer SAN, NAS.
• Provision, allocate, and manage storage resources for Servers and applications.
• Monitor storage capacity, utilization, and performance.
• Perform storage expansion, migration, and optimization activities.
• Maintain storage documentation and asset inventory.
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
• Support disaster recovery planning and execution.
• Conduct backup restoration drills and recovery testing.
• Ensure recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) are achieved.
• Participate in business continuity initiatives.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Support creation of build and configuration documents Storage (PowerMax 2000 & 8000) and Backup (HP Store Once & Veritas)
• Monitor backup and storage infrastructure health.
• Investigate and resolve incidents, service requests, and problem tickets.
• Perform root cause analysis for recurring issues.
• Provide L2/L3 technical support and escalation handling.