Senior Backup Engineer

Job Description

• Architect, implement, and operate backup and restore solutions across on-premises data centres and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP), covering the full range of financial services workloads — core banking systems, trading platforms, payment processing, databases, and unstructured data.
• Define, own, and continuously validate RTO and RPO targets in alignment with Important Business Service (IBS) mapping and impact tolerances as required under the PRA/FCA operational resilience framework.
• Team structure: Reporting directly to Sumant Vidwans, part of a 6 member I18n team managing translation quality and vendor collaboration.
• Own backup policy governance — retention schedules, legal hold processes, data classification alignment, and lifecycle rules — ensuring consistency with data management and records retention obligations under GDPR and FCA COBS/SYSC requirements.
• Lead a structured restore testing programme including full DR failover Business Service recovery exercises, clean-room scenario based recovery simulations, and immutable backup integrity validation — with evidence packages suitable for regulatory review.
• Own backup failure investigation and resolution end-to-end, conducting blameless post-incident reviews and feeding findings into the firm’s risk event process.

Mandatory Skills:

• Any one or two Backup technologies (Veeam, Commvault Cohesity, Rubrik, NetApp Snap Vault, Dell EMC Data Domain, tape)
• Cloud-native (AWS Backup, Azure Backup, snapshot-based recovery, object storage immutability)
• Experience in Infrastructure Automation with Terraform, cloud any AWS, Azure, and/or GCP,

Interview Mode:

• Interview Mode: Three rounds of virtual interviews conducted via Microsoft Teams.