Infrastructure Specialist (Backup & Storage)

Gazelle Global; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Gazelle Global is seeking an Infrastructure Backup and Storage Analyst to join a business-critical team in a hybrid role. The position focuses on enterprise backup, recovery and storage services across core infrastructure, with on-site support 3 days per week.

You will manage Veritas NetBackup, SAN/NAS environments and storage devices like Dell PowerMax and HP StoreOnce, ensuring data protection, availability and DR readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience managing enterprise backup environments and storage systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot backup failures and perform restores.
• Knowledge of storage networks and disaster recovery planning.

Responsibilities

• Manage and troubleshoot enterprise backup solutions (Veritas NetBackup).
• Configure, monitor and test backup/restore operations.
• Administer SAN/NAS and provision storage for servers and apps.
• Support Dell PowerMax and HP StoreOnce infrastructure.
• Monitor capacity, performance and optimization efforts.
• Maintain backup policies, retention and tape rotation.
• Assist DR planning and DR tests (RTO/RPO).
• Provide L2/L3 incident resolution and root cause analysis.
• Maintain build docs, records and asset inventories.
• Apply backup security and access controls per policy.

Skills

Backup & Recovery

Disaster Recovery

Storage Administration

L2/L3 Support

Tools

Veritas NetBackup

HP StoreOnce

Dell PowerMax

SAN/NAS

Job description

Infrastructure Backup and Storage Analyst

Location: Wokingham/ Warwick, UK

Contract: Initial 6 months, with potential extension

Working pattern: Hybrid, 3 days onsite per week

Join a business-critical infrastructure team supporting enterprise backup, recovery and storage services. You will help maintain data protection, service availability and disaster recovery readiness across core infrastructure.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage and troubleshoot enterprise backup solutions, including Veritas NetBackup.
• Configure and monitor backup and restore operations, investigate failures and perform recovery testing.
• Administer SAN/NAS environments and provision storage for servers and applications.
• Support Dell PowerMax 2000/8000 and HP StoreOnce infrastructure.
• Monitor storage capacity, utilisation and performance, supporting expansion, migration and optimisation.
• Maintain backup policies, schedules, retention requirements and tape rotation.
• Support disaster recovery planning, restoration exercises and RTO/RPO objectives.
• Provide L2/L3 technical support, resolve incidents and conduct root cause analysis.
• Maintain build documentation, configuration records and asset inventories.
• Apply backup security, encryption, access controls and compliance requirements.

Key skills:

Veritas NetBackup, HP StoreOnce, Dell PowerMax, SAN/NAS, backup and recovery,

disaster recovery, storage administration and L2/L3 infrastructure support.