Senior Technology Engineer, Backup & Storage

About the role

Our client, a leading Middle East banking group, is looking for a Senior Technology Engineer to own the engineering lifecycle of its backup, storage, and cyber recovery platforms. You will design, build, automate, and run a standardised stack of infrastructure products used across the organisation. The environment is high availability, high transaction volume, and globally distributed, so resilience and recoverability are non-negotiable.

The role sits in a matrix structure, reporting to the head of the infrastructure engineering function while working within a platform squad that drives delivery across design, development, implementation, standardisation, automation, and capacity planning. The ideal candidate is a T-shaped engineer: deep in Linux and data protection, broad enough to move across DevOps, cloud, and virtualisation as projects require.

Data Protection and Cyber Recovery

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery solutions across on-premise, virtualised, and cloud workloads
• Build and operate cyber recovery capabilities, including isolated recovery vaults, immutable backups, air-gapped copies, and ransomware recovery testing
• Define and enforce backup policies, retention schedules, and RPO/RTO targets aligned with regulatory and business requirements
• Run regular restore and DR drills, and document recoverability evidence for audit
• Manage storage capacity planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle of storage and backup infrastructure

Technology Engineering

• Act as the Linux subject matter expert, covering hardening, patching, and OS compliance against security baselines
• Automate deployment, configuration, and backup operations using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools
• Manage virtualisation environments and their integration with backup platforms
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, storage, and application issues with development and operations teams
• Configure compute, storage, and networking services on Azure, AWS, or OCI, including cloud native backup

Delivery

• Own projects from inception to production, covering design, build, test, handover, and BAU support
• Apply DevOps, SRE, IaC, and 12 Factor principles to infrastructure delivery
• Integrate platform components into CI/CD pipelines
• Contribute to technology stack reduction and platform cost optimisation targets
• Handle BAU incidents and root cause analysis for backup failures and storage issues

Stakeholder Management

• Work with the wider infrastructure team to keep deliverables consistent across platforms
• Collaborate with the security function to align with security standards and contribute to design forums
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and manage expectations under pressure

Requirements

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years in infrastructure engineering or operations, with at least 3 years in a similar senior role
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise data protection platforms such as Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect / Avamar / Data Domain, Veeam, Rubrik, or Cohesity
• Practical experience with cyber recovery solutions such as vault architectures and immutable storage
• Expert Linux administration (RHEL, Oracle Linux, or similar)
• Solid understanding of enterprise storage (SAN, NAS, object storage)
• Experience with virtualisation technologies, ideally VMware
• Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably Terraform, plus configuration management with Ansible or similar
• Exposure to Kubernetes or OpenShift and backup of containerised workloads
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrations
• Hands-on configuration of public cloud services on Azure, AWS, or OCI
• Experience in large, complex enterprises with high availability requirements, ideally banking or financial services

Desirable

• Certifications such as Commvault Professional, Veritas NetBackup, Dell Data Protection, RHCE, VMware VCP, CKA, or Azure/AWS associate level
• Knowledge of banking regulatory requirements around data retention and resilience
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell

Behavioural Competencies

• Self-starter with strong initiative
• Calm and methodical under pressure, especially during incidents and recovery events
• Pragmatic and outcome focused
• Willing to learn and adopt new technologies
• Clear, structured communicator