Storage & Backup Architect

Role overview

Define enterprise storage, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery architecture for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Define storage and backup strategy, standards, target architecture, and technology roadmaps.
• Design SAN, NAS, object, software-defined, archival, and cloud storage solutions.
• Design backup and recovery services using platforms such as Veeam, NetBackup, and Azure Recovery Services.
• Develop recovery patterns, RPO/RTO alignment, replication, business continuity, and DR execution approaches.
• Lead data centre migration, storage modernisation, platform consolidation, and lifecycle initiatives.
• Perform capacity planning, performance optimisation, resilience assessment, and cost optimisation.
• Embed encryption, access control, data protection, retention, and GDPR-aligned compliance controls.
• Provide architecture governance, vendor coordination, technical workshops, and operational handover documentation.

Core skills and platforms

• SAN, NAS, object and cloud storage
• Veeam, NetBackup, Azure Recovery Services
• Replication, backup, recovery and DR
• Azure hybrid environments
• Encryption, data protection and compliance

Preferred certifications

• Dell EMC or NetApp storage certification
• Veeam or NetBackup certification
• Relevant Azure certification
• ITIL Foundation

Delivery expectations

• Strong ownership, analytical troubleshooting, stakeholder communication, and documentation discipline.
• Ability to work within enterprise change, incident, problem, security, audit, and service management controls.
• Participation in agreed support coverage, transition, knowledge transfer, and continuous improvement activities.