Lead Storage & Backup Engineer – Cyber Resilience

abrdn Inc.; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

40 days annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

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, Azure backup and storage platforms, recovery assurance and resilience capabilities.

You will influence strategy, modernise critical services and lead high-impact initiatives across regulated technology environments,

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Cohesity DataProtect or other backup infrastructure (Veritas, Veeam, Rubrik) across enterprise workloads.
• Proven expertise in enterprise backup, recovery, replication, immutability and cyber resilience solutions.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure, Azure Backup and Recovery Services Vaults, plus storage services (AWS/GCP as optional).
• 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.
• 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.

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

Enterprise backup

Cyber resilience

Cloud architectures

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Tools

Cohesity DataProtect

Veritas NetBackup

Veeam

Rubrik

Azure Backup

Recovery Services Vaults

Job description

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, Azure backup and storage platforms, recovery assurance and resilience capabilities.

You will influence strategy, modernise critical services and lead high-impact initiatives across regulated technology environments,