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. Key Responsibilities 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