Infrastructure Storage & Backup Tower Lead

Job ID: 16285Company: Sopra SteriaLocation: Portsmouth, GBR | Coedkernew, Newport, GBR | GBREmployment type: PermanentCategory: Network and InfrastructureIndustry: Professional ServicesLevel: Level 3Posted:

Are you a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with a specialism in Storage and Backup?
Sopra Steria’s Aerospace Defence and Security sector are currently recruiting for a Senior Storage and Backup Engineer to lead the team and offer expert technical insight. The ideal candidate will have expertise in the administration of NetApp ONTAP as a storage engineer and utilised Veeam for backup integration. This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Engineer wanting to take the next step in their career as this role also comes with some line management responsibility of the existing Storage & Backup team. With this role there will be scope for on call and out of hours project work.
This role can be based out of any of our sites (Newport, Stevenage, Portsmouth) with approximately 4 days per week in the office.
Due to the nature of the client, we are only able to progress with British citizens eligible for SC clearance.
What you’ll bring:

• Deploy, configure, and administer NetApp ONTAP devices and clusters, including AFF, FAS, and E-Series platforms.
  
• Manage NAS/SAN provisioning, LUN creation, NFS/SMB shares, and storage virtual machines (SVMs).
  
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and storage optimisation.
  
• Administer Veeam Backup & Replication, including job design, scheduling, retention, and repository management.
  
• Integrate Veeam with NetApp storage for snapshot-based backups and rapid recovery workflows.
  
• Accurately assess effort and cost involved with implementation.
  
• Line Management of the Storage and Backup Tower.
  

What you’ll bring:

• Extensive experience in Infrastructure Management
  
• Experience with the Deployment, configuration, and administration of NetApp ONTAP devices
  
• Knowledge of NAS/SAN provisioning, LUN creation, NFS/SMB shares, and storage virtual machines (SVMs).
  
• Veeam Backup & Replication administration experience
  
• Experience Integrating Veeam with NetApp storage for snapshot-based backups and rapid recovery workflow
  
• Previous experience ensuring backup and storage platforms meet regulatory, encryption, retention, and audit requirements.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience of working to tight SLA’s.
  
• Accreditation to technical level or equivalent essential (ex: MCSE) and accreditation in another technology area preferred.
  

If you’re interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Stevenage
Security Clearance Level: SC
Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker
Salary: Competitive depending on experience
Benefits: 5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.