Infrastructure Engineer

Sopra Steria Ltd; Newport; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Pension

Job summary

Sopra Steria Ltd. in Newport is seeking a Storage and Backup Engineer to join the Aerospace Defence and Security sector. The role focuses on SAN/NAS provisioning, backup tooling, and storage optimization across multi-environment setups.

The position requires sole British citizenship eligible for SC clearance, with on-site work four days per week at Newport, Portsmouth or Stevenage. Salary is competitive and benefits include 25 days leave, health plan, life assurance, and pension.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of storage services, hardware deployment, configuration, and administration (NetApp experience preferred).
• Strong knowledge of NAS/SAN provisioning, NFS/SMB shares, storage virtual machines (SVMs).
• Experience upgrading storage appliances and processes required to do so.
• Knowledge of fibre channel zoning and LUN creation (preferable).
• Experience with Backup tooling and technologies (Veeam preferable). Snapshot-based backups and robotic library systems knowledge.
• Administration of backup technologies, policy design, scheduling, retention plans and restore and recovery workflows.
• Previous experience with regulatory, encryption, retention, and audit requirements a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Enthusiastic and keen to learn, looking to acquire the knowledge required to be a point of technical escalation.
• Strong customer focus encompassing BAU ticketing and task management across Storage and Backup spaces.
• Performing capacity planning, performance tuning, and storage optimisation across multiple environments.
• Working with projects team as required – Includes supporting upcoming unique, large scale, one of a kind, European-wide project.

Skills

Storage and Backup

NAS/SAN provisioning

NFS/SMB shares

Fibre Channel zoning

Backup tooling (Veeam)

LUN creation

Regulatory/audit knowledge

Customer focus / BAU ticketing

Tools

NetApp

Veeam

Robotic library systems

Fibre Channel switches

Job description

Are you a keen Infrastructure Engineer with knowledge of Storage and Backup? Sopra Steria’s Aerospace Defence and Security sector are currently recruiting for a Storage and Backup Engineer with the ability to hit the ground running and make a real difference in the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone with previous experience in SAN, NAS and backup technologies who is looking to develop their skills and become a technical expert. This role sits within a group level account putting you in the best place to progress.

This role is based on site at one of our regional hubs (Newport, Portsmouth or Stevenage) approximately 4 days per week.

Due to the nature of the client we are only able to progress with sole British citizens eligible for SC clearance.

What you’ll be doing:

• Enthusiastic and keen to learn, looking to acquire the knowledge required to be a point of technical escalation.
• Strong customer focus encompassing BAU ticketing and task management across Storage and Backup spaces.
• Performing capacity planning, performance tuning, and storage optimisation across multiple environments.
• Working with projects team as required – Includes supporting upcoming unique, large scale, one of a kind, European-wide project.

What you’ll bring:

• Working knowledge of storage services, hardware deployment, configuration, and administration (NetApp experience preferred).
• Strong Knowledge of NAS/SAN provisioning, NFS/SMB shares, storage virtual machines (SVMs).
• Experience upgrading storage appliances and processes required to do so.
• Knowledge of fibre channel zoning and LUN creation (preferable).
• Experience with Backup tooling and technologies (Veeam preferable). Snapshot-based backups and robotic library systems knowledge.
• Administration of backup technologies, policy design, scheduling, retention plans and restore and recovery workflows.
• Previous experience with regulatory, encryption, retention, and audit requirements a bonus.

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent. Location: Newport. Security Clearance Level: SC clearance. Salary: Competitive based on experience. Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.