Storage & Backup Engineering Lead | Azure & Cohesity

abrdn Holdings Limited; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

40 days annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

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 and Azure backup, shaping roadmaps and enhancing resilience across regulated environments.

The role offers exposure to architecture, security, operations and supplier management, with a blended working model that supports

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Cohesity DataProtect administration, engineering and troubleshooting across enterprise workloads.
• Proven expertise in enterprise backup, recovery, replication, immutability and cyber resilience solutions.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure, Azure Backup, Recovery Services Vaults and storage services.
• 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.

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

Cohesity DataProtect

Azure backup

Infrastructure as Code

Cyber resilience

Backup & recovery

Tools

Azure

Cohesity

Veritas NetBackup

Rubrik

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 and Azure backup, shaping roadmaps and enhancing resilience across regulated environments.

The role offers exposure to architecture, security, operations and supplier management, with a blended working model that supports