Storage & backend engineer

Lorien; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien is recruiting an Infrastructure and Storage Engineer to join a leading higher education organisation on an initial 6-month contract. The role suits an experienced infrastructure professional with a strong background in enterprise storage, backup and 3rd-line support environments.

You will administer and support enterprise storage and backup, troubleshoot complex issues and contribute to ongoing operation and resilience of the infrastructure estate within a large, demanding environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on administration of NetApp storage systems and ONTAP/Clustered ONTAP.
• Experience with NFS and SMB/CIFS.
• Knowledge of snapshots, SnapMirror and storage migrations.
• Experience in 3rd-line support and complex issue troubleshooting.
• Understanding DR principles and backup strategies (Cohesity/Rubrik).

Responsibilities

• Administer and support NetApp storage and backup environments.
• Troubleshoot complex storage and infrastructure issues in a 3rd-line capacity.
• Contribute to operation and resilience of the infrastructure estate.
• Assist with capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Support high availability environments, HA pairs and clustering.

Skills

NetApp ONTAP

Storage administration

Backup strategies

VMware

3rd-line support

Troubleshooting

Documentation & communication

Disaster recovery planning

Tools

Cohesity

Rubrik

Qumulo

Job description

We are currently recruiting for a Infrastructure and Storage Engineer to join a leading higher education organisation on an initial 6-month contract. The role would suit an experienced infrastructure professional with a strong background in enterprise storage, backup and 3rd-line support environments.

The Role

The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience across enterprise storage, backup and infrastructure support. You will be responsible for administering and supporting enterprise storage and backup environments, troubleshooting complex technical issues and contributing to the ongoing operation and resilience of the infrastructure estate.

Key Responsibilities and Experience

• 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).
• Strong 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 lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of enterprise backup strategies, retention policies and lifecycle 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.
• Experience with Qumulo would be advantageous but is not essential.