Rubrik Architect

Viqu Limited; Greater London; Remote; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Viqu Limited is seeking a Rubrik Architect for a 6-month contract with fully remote work. The role focuses on reviewing and enhancing an enterprise backup and recovery platform, improving cyber resilience, and delivering practical technical improvements across on-premises, virtualised and cloud environments.

You will influence architecture, implement automation with Terraform and Ansible, and contribute to monitoring and recovery readiness tests to meet business requirements.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Rubrik experience in enterprise backup.
• Experience reviewing and optimising Rubrik environments.
• Knowledge of Rubrik Security Cloud and CDM; cloud cluster/exocompute is beneficial.
• Strong cyber resilience and disaster recovery knowledge.
• Experience with hybrid infra including cloud.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Rubrik expertise

Hybrid cloud architecture

Terraform

Ansible

Ransomware resilience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Azure

AWS

Rubrik CDM

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.