Storage & Backup Engineer

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects. Who we are supporting At Spektrum, we support a wide range of NATO organizations and programmes by providing highly skilled professionals across defence, security, digital transformation, engineering, and information technology. Our teams contribute to projects that strengthen the Alliance's operational readiness, enhance interoperability between member nations, and enable the delivery of critical capabilities across land, air, maritime, cyber, and space domains. For this opportunity, our client is a private technology company that delivers advanced IT and engineering services in support of NATO programmes. Working alongside NATO stakeholders, the company provides technical expertise, software development, systems integration, and digital solutions that help modernize and sustain mission-critical capabilities. As part of this project, consultants will contribute to the development and support of technologies that underpin NATO's operational effectiveness and long-term digital transformation. Storage & Backup Engineer Role ID: TG-001-2 Role Background The ideal candidate is an experienced Storage and Backup Engineer with at least 8 years of hands-on experience in supporting, designing, managing and optimizing enterprise storage and backup environments. The candidate will work under the guidance of the Team Lead, Infrastructure Operations, and collaborate with other support teams. The candidate is expected to demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, a proactive approach to service improvements and the ability to work independently while supporting a team-oriented environment. Role Duties and Responsibilities Provide engineering expertise and day-to-day administration of the organization’s storage and backup infrastructure, including the following duties: Design and implement enterprise storage and backup architectures aligned with business, availability, recovery, capacity, and security requirements. Administer and maintain storage arrays, SAN fabrics, and backup platforms, including daily health checks, storage provisioning, host integration, backup client configuration, schedules, retention policies, and replication. Plan and execute installations, upgrades, migrations, capacity expansions, and proof-of-concept deployments, including testing, validation, and rollback procedures. Monitor and analyze system health, performance, capacity, and backup success; resolve bottlenecks and implement improvements. Resolve incidents, problems, and service requests; provide Tier 3 support, lead root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions. Perform restores and recovery tests, and support disaster-recovery exercises to validate data protection and recovery capabilities. Apply security controls, hardening standards, and approved configuration changes in accordance with established policies and change-management procedures. Collaborate with vendors and internal teams on maintenance, upgrades, interoperability, and complex issue resolution. Develop and maintain tools and scripts to automate storage and backup provisioning, monitoring, reporting, and routine operations. Deliver storage and backup projects for the organization and its partner entities, including technical assessments, business cases, project proposals, and operational handover.