Backup and Storage Engineer

My client, an International bank based in Dublin, are looking for Backup and Storage Engineer to join their growing team. Please note that this role does NOT offer sponsorship.

About the Backup and Storage Engineer Role:

This is a great pportunity to play a key role and be at the centre of implementing strategic change within the infrastructure space.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Managing and maintaining enterprise backup systems (including archive storage), ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity across a global infrastructure.
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimising data protection environments, including proactive incident response and life cycle management of hardware and software.
• Collaborating with cross-functional IT teams and vendors to implement new solutions, support business continuity and disaster recovery plans, and ensure compliance with security and operational standards.

For you to succeed in the role, you'll need to have:

• Strong practical experience with enterprise backup technologies and archive storage solutions, such as Rubrik, Netbackup, VEEAM, EverPure, ECS or similar platforms, in highly virtualised environments.
• Solid understanding of networking, virtualisation, and data centre operations, with hands-on experience in managing hardware life cycles, patching, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across global teams and manage vendor relationships effectively.

Position Description

About this role:

This role has been created to ensure the operational stability, resilience, and life cycle management of the organisation's enterprise data protection infrastructure. It plays a critical part in supporting business continuity, disaster recovery, and secure data management across a global IT estate. The role will engage with stakeholders including infrastructure and platform teams, application owners, IT operations, and external vendors.

This role will enable you to:

• Manage and maintain enterprise backup systems and archive storage, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise data protection environments, including proactive incident response and life cycle management.
• Support business continuity and disaster recovery readiness across global data centres.
• Collaborate with global IT teams and vendors to implement new solutions and maintain operational standards.
• Maintain technical documentation and integrate automation where appropriate.

What will you bring to the role?

• Strong experience with enterprise backup and storage technologies (eg, Rubrik, Netbackup, VEEAM, EverPure, ECS).
• Solid understanding of networking, virtualisation, and data centre operations.
• Hands-on experience in managing hardware/software life cycles and patching schedules.
• Excellent communication and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to work across global teams.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Scripting or automation tools (eg PowerShell, APIs).
• Experience working in regulated, process-driven environments.

Familiarity with enterprise server/storage hardware and cloud-based backup solutions.

If the above is of interest please apply to this role, or call me to find out more. Alternatively, you can email me on (see below)

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