Netbackup Engineer Clearance

CMK Resources is seeking an experienced Net Backup SME / Consultant to support enterprise data protection projects across the United Kingdom. This consultant will work directly with Cohesity and its customers, including highly regulated and public-sector organizations.

The ideal candidate is a current, hands-on Net Backup specialist who can quickly become productive in a customer environment, independently lead technical delivery activities, and communicate effectively with both engineering teams and senior stakeholders.

An active UK national security vetting clearance is required. Candidates must be UK-based and eligible to work on engagements involving sensitive public-sector organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, upgrade, and support enterprise Net Backup environments.
• Deliver Net Backup-to-Net Backup migrations and platform-modernization projects.
• Support Net Backup upgrades, appliance deployments, and infrastructure refresh initiatives.
• Work with Net Backup Flex and Access Appliances.
• Assess existing backup environments and recommend improvements to resiliency, recoverability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Develop and execute migration plans, implementation procedures, test plans, and recovery validation activities.
• Use or quickly become proficient with the Tranzman migration tool.
• Integrate Net Backup with cloud, virtualized, database, and enterprise application environments.
• Troubleshoot complex backup, restore, replication, connectivity, and performance issues.
• Develop scripts and automation to improve deployment and operational processes.
• Produce technical documentation, architecture diagrams, migration runbooks, and customer-facing reports.
• Lead technical discussions and present recommendations to engineers, architects, managers, and senior stakeholders.
• Work independently across multiple phases of professional services and customer delivery engagements.

Required Qualifications

• Active UK national security vetting clearance.
• Current hands-on expertise with Veritas Net Backup.
• Strong experience with Net Backup installation, configuration, administration, upgrades, troubleshooting, and recovery.
• Experience with Net Backup Flex Appliances.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise backup migrations or modernization projects.
• Deep understanding of data protection, backup, recovery, replication, retention, and highly available architectures.
• Experience supporting cloud-connected backup environments, preferably AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Strong knowledge of major operating systems, including Linux and Windows.
• Experience protecting enterprise databases and applications such as Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Customer-facing consulting or professional services experience.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to learn new tools and technologies quickly and work with limited supervision.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, “can-do” approach.

Preferred Qualifications

• Net Backup Access Appliance experience.
• Experience with NBU-to-NBU migrations using Tranzman is a major bonus but not required.
• Cohesity platform or Cohesity Professional Services experience is a bonus.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or other cloud platforms.
• Scripting or automation experience using Ansible, Puppet, Power Shell, Bash, or Python.
• Experience supporting UK government, financial services, law enforcement, or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience designing backup solutions for highly available applications and critical infrastructure.