Storage & Backup Infrastructure Engineer

Sopra Steria Ltd; Newport; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Pension

Job summary

Sopra Steria Ltd. in Newport is seeking a Storage and Backup Engineer to join the Aerospace Defence and Security sector. The role focuses on SAN/NAS provisioning, backup tooling, and storage optimization across multi-environment setups.

The position requires sole British citizenship eligible for SC clearance, with on-site work four days per week at Newport, Portsmouth or Stevenage. Salary is competitive and benefits include 25 days leave, health plan, life assurance, and pension.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of storage services, hardware deployment, configuration, and administration (NetApp experience preferred).
• Strong knowledge of NAS/SAN provisioning, NFS/SMB shares, storage virtual machines (SVMs).
• Experience upgrading storage appliances and processes required to do so.
• Knowledge of fibre channel zoning and LUN creation (preferable).
• Experience with Backup tooling and technologies (Veeam preferable). Snapshot-based backups and robotic library systems knowledge.
• Administration of backup technologies, policy design, scheduling, retention plans and restore and recovery workflows.
• Previous experience with regulatory, encryption, retention, and audit requirements a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Enthusiastic and keen to learn, looking to acquire the knowledge required to be a point of technical escalation.
• Strong customer focus encompassing BAU ticketing and task management across Storage and Backup spaces.
• Performing capacity planning, performance tuning, and storage optimisation across multiple environments.
• Working with projects team as required – Includes supporting upcoming unique, large scale, one of a kind, European-wide project.

Skills

Storage and Backup

NAS/SAN provisioning

NFS/SMB shares

Fibre Channel zoning

Backup tooling (Veeam)

LUN creation

Regulatory/audit knowledge

Customer focus / BAU ticketing

Tools

NetApp

Veeam

Robotic library systems

Fibre Channel switches

Job description

Sopra Steria Ltd. in Newport is seeking a Storage and Backup Engineer to join the Aerospace Defence and Security sector. The role focuses on SAN/NAS provisioning, backup tooling, and storage optimization across multi-environment setups.

The position requires sole British citizenship eligible for SC clearance, with on-site work four days per week at Newport, Portsmouth or Stevenage. Salary is competitive and benefits include 25 days leave, health plan, life assurance, and pension.