Rubrik Architect

VIQU Limited; City Of London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

VIQU Limited is seeking an experienced Rubrik Architect for a 6-month remote contract to review and enhance an enterprise backup and recovery platform.

You will assess the current implementation, identify gaps, and deliver improvements across data protection, cyber resilience, automation and disaster recovery.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Rubrik experience in enterprise backup/recovery.
• Experience reviewing and optimising Rubrik environments.
• Knowledge of Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) and Cloud Data Management (CDM).
• Familiarity with Cloud Clusters and Exocompute is beneficial.
• Strong understanding of cyber resilience, ransomware protection, DR and testing.
• Experience across hybrid infrastructure incl. virtualisation, storage, servers and public cloud.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and/or AWS.
• Automation and IaC experience with Terraform and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Review current Rubrik implementation, architecture and configuration to identify improvements.
• Enhance backup, recovery and cyber resilience capabilities including ransomware protection and DR.
• Design and optimise Rubrik solutions for on-prem, virtualised and cloud environments.
• Develop technical designs, standards and recommendations for ongoing development.
• Drive automation and IaC to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Improve monitoring, reporting and dashboards for platform health and recovery readiness.
• Test and validate backup integrity and recovery against business needs.
• Collaborate with architecture, engineering and operations to define the platform's future direction.

Skills

Rubrik

Rubrik Security Cloud

Cloud Data Management (CDM)

Azure/AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Backup and recovery

Cyber resilience

Tools

Rubrik

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Rubrik Architect - 6-month contract - Remote

My longstanding utilities client is seeking an experienced Rubrik Architect to review and enhance an existing enterprise backup and recovery platform.

The focus for the Rubrik Architect is on assessing the current implementation, identifying technical gaps and delivering improvements across data protection, cyber resilience, automation and recovery capabilities.

Key Skills & Experience from the Rubrik Architect:

• Strong hands-on experience with Rubrik, including enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
• Proven experience reviewing, troubleshooting and optimising an existing Rubrik environment.
• Knowledge of Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) and Cloud Data Management (CDM); Cloud Cluster and Exocompute experience is beneficial.
• Strong understanding of cyber resilience, ransomware protection, disaster recovery and recovery testing.
• Experience across hybrid infrastructure environments, including virtualisation, storage, servers and public cloud.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and/or AWS.
• Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and Ansible.
• Ability to assess existing architectures, identify weaknesses and deliver practical technical improvements.

Key Responsibilities of the Rubrik Architect:

• Review the existing Rubrik implementation, architecture and configuration, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Enhance backup, recovery and cyber resilience capabilities, including ransomware protection and disaster recovery.
• Design and optimise Rubrik solutions across on-premises, virtualised and cloud environments.
• Develop technical designs, engineering standards and recommendations to support the platform's ongoing development.
• Drive automation and Infrastructure as Code to improve consistency and operational efficiency.
• Improve monitoring, reporting and dashboards to provide visibility of platform health, compliance and recovery readiness.
• Test and validate backup integrity and recovery capabilities against business requirements.
• Work with architecture, engineering and operational teams to deliver technical improvements and define the future direction of the platform.

The Rubrik Architect can work fully remote for the duration of the contract.