Senior Cloud Storage & Backup Engineer

Lorien; Greater London; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien is currently recruiting for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join a leading higher education organisation on an initial 6-month contract in London. The role focuses on enterprise storage, backup and infrastructure support, with a day rate of £465 Umbrella and a 36.5 hour week.

You will administer and support NetApp storage and backup environments, perform troubleshooting, and contribute to the resilience of the infrastructure estate. Start ASAP.

Qualifications

• Hands-on administration and support of NetApp storage systems and NetApp ONTAP/Clustered ONTAP.
• Strong understanding of aggregates, volumes, LUNs, qtrees and Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs).
• Experience with NFS and CIFS/SMB.
• Experience with snapshots and SnapMirror.
• Supporting enterprise storage architecture and operations.
• Capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Supporting high availability environments, HA pairs and clustering.
• Firmware and ONTAP upgrades.
• Storage migrations and data life cycle management.
• Strong understanding of enterprise backup strategies, retention policies and life cycle management.
• Good understanding of RPO, RTO and disaster recovery principles.
• Experience with enterprise backup platforms such as Cohesity and/or Rubrik.
• Experience backing up and restoring enterprise databases.
• Experience protecting VM-based infrastructure.
• Understanding of image-level backups and application-consistent snapshots.
• Experience working within broad 3rd-line support queues.
• General infrastructure support including operating systems, entry-level VMware, NTFS permissions and systems administration.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently within a complex enterprise environment.
• Clear documentation and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on administration and support of NetApp storage systems.
• Administrate ONTAP, aggregates, volumes, LUNs, and SVMs.
• Manage NFS and SMB/CIFS.
• Perform snapshots and SnapMirror operations.
• Support enterprise storage architecture and operations.
• Capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Maintain high availability environments and clusters.
• Firmware and ONTAP upgrades.
• Storage migrations and data lifecycle management.
• Backup strategies, retention policies, and life cycle management.
• Understand RPO, RTO and disaster recovery.
• Experience with Cohesity or Rubrik backups.
• Backup of enterprise databases.
• Protect VM-based infrastructure.
• Image-level backups and application-consistent snapshots.
• Work in broad 3rd-line support queues.
• General infrastructure support and VMware and NTFS permissions.
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Work independently in a complex enterprise environment.
• Clear documentation and communication.

Skills

NetApp storage

ONTAP

Clustered ONTAP

NFS

CIFS/SMB

Snapshots

SnapMirror

HA

VMware

Cohesity

Rubrik

Qumulo

Storage migrations

Data lifecycle

RPO/RTO

Image-level backups

3rd-line support

NTFS permissions

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Tools

NetApp ONTAP

ONTAP

Clustered ONTAP

NFS

SMB/CIFS

Snapshots

SnapMirror

Cohesity

Rubrik

Qumulo

VMware

NTFS permissions

Job description

Lorien is currently recruiting for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join a leading higher education organisation on an initial 6-month contract in London. The role focuses on enterprise storage, backup and infrastructure support, with a day rate of £465 Umbrella and a 36.5 hour week.

You will administer and support NetApp storage and backup environments, perform troubleshooting, and contribute to the resilience of the infrastructure estate. Start ASAP.