Lead Backup & Storage Engineer

abrdn Holdings Limited; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

40 days annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Season ticket loans

Employee discount portal

Job summary

Aberdeen is seeking a Lead Storage & Backup Engineer to provide technical leadership across enterprise storage, backup, recovery and cyber resilience services. Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Services, you will own the engineering direction for Cohesity DataProtect and Azure backup, shaping roadmaps and enhancing resilience across regulated environments.

The role offers exposure to architecture, security, operations and supplier management, with a blended working model that supports

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Cohesity DataProtect administration, engineering and troubleshooting across enterprise workloads.
• Proven expertise in enterprise backup, recovery, replication, immutability and cyber resilience solutions.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure, Azure Backup, Recovery Services Vaults and storage services.
• Knowledge of enterprise storage platforms, SAN, NAS, replication, performance optimisation and capacity planning.
• Experience developing technical standards, solution designs, automation and Infrastructure as Code practices.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority for storage, backup, recovery and cyber resilience technologies, defining standards and engineering best practice.
• Lead the design, implementation and continual improvement of Cohesity DataProtect, Azure backup and enterprise storage platforms.
• Drive recovery assurance, cyber recovery and ransomware recovery testing to improve resilience and recoverability outcomes.
• Partner with Architecture, Security, Cloud and Operations teams to deliver strategic roadmaps, automation and platform modernisation initiatives.
• Provide governance, supplier oversight and technical leadership for complex incidents, major changes and regulatory requirements.
• Reduce operational complexity, technical debt and cost through optimisation, simplification and Infrastructure as Code approaches.

Skills

Cohesity DataProtect

Azure backup

Infrastructure as Code

Cyber resilience

Backup & recovery

Tools

Azure

Cohesity

Veritas NetBackup

Rubrik

Job description

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK's leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry's best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

• interactive investor, the UK's second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the Department

Infrastructure Services provides the secure, resilient and scalable technology foundations that support Aberdeen's business and client services. Working closely with Architecture, Security, Cloud and Operations teams, the department drives modernisation, operational resilience and service excellence. The team fosters collaboration, continuous improvement and technical leadership, enabling our clients to be better investors through dependable infrastructure services.

About the Role

We are seeking a Lead Storage & Backup Engineer to provide technical leadership across enterprise storage, backup, recovery and cyber resilience services. Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Services, you will own the engineering direction for Cohesity DataProtect, Azure backup and storage platforms, recovery assurance and infrastructure resilience capabilities. This is an opportunity to influence strategy, modernise critical services and lead high-impact initiatives across regulated technology environments. The role offers significant exposure across architecture, security, operations and supplier management, helping you invest in your tomorrow through meaningful technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority for storage, backup, recovery and cyber resilience technologies, defining standards and engineering best practice.
• Lead the design, implementation and continual improvement of Cohesity DataProtect, Azure backup and enterprise storage platforms.
• Drive recovery assurance, cyber recovery and ransomware recovery testing to improve resilience and recoverability outcomes.
• Partner with Architecture, Security, Cloud and Operations teams to deliver strategic roadmaps, automation and platform modernisation initiatives.
• Provide governance, supplier oversight and technical leadership for complex incidents, major changes and regulatory requirements.
• Reduce operational complexity, technical debt and cost through optimisation, simplification and Infrastructure as Code approaches.

About the Candidate

• Strong hands-on experience with Cohesity DataProtect administration, engineering and troubleshooting across enterprise workloads.
• Proven expertise in enterprise backup, recovery, replication, immutability and cyber resilience solutions.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure, Azure Backup, Recovery Services Vaults and storage services.
• Knowledge of enterprise storage platforms, SAN, NAS, replication, performance optimisation and capacity planning.
• Experience developing technical standards, solution designs, automation and Infrastructure as Code practices.

Desirable criteria : Cohesity certifications; Microsoft Azure certifications such as AZ-104 or AZ-305; experience with Veritas NetBackup, Rubrik or similar platforms; Financial Services experience; and integration with monitoring, ITSM, CMDB and reporting tooling.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits - including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas - our vectors of growth - focused on our clients' changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here .

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we'd like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we've adopted a 'blended working' approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture , where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements - for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability - please let us know and we'll be happy to help.

We're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense - this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.