Lead Backup & Storage Engineer

Location: City of Edinburgh

## Lead Backup & Storage Engineer Apply:
Edinburgh:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date:
October 5, 2026 (13 days left to apply):
R0074131
**** Job Description
**** At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.  Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.  Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.  

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.  Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:  
* interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
* Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
* Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.  
** About the Department
** Infrastructure Services provides the secure, resilient and scalable technology foundations that support Aberdeen’s business and client services. Working closely with Architecture, Security, Cloud and Operations teams, the department drives modernisation, operational resilience and service excellence. The team fosters collaboration, continuous improvement and technical leadership, enabling our clients to be better investors through dependable infrastructure services.

** About the Role
** We are seeking a Lead Storage & Backup Engineer to provide technical leadership across enterprise storage, backup, recovery and cyber resilience services. Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Services, you will own the engineering direction for Cohesity Data Protect, Azure backup and storage platforms, recovery assurance and infrastructure resilience capabilities. This is an opportunity to influence strategy, modernise critical services and lead high-impact initiatives across regulated technology environments.

The role offers significant exposure across architecture, security, operations and supplier management, helping you invest in your tomorrow through meaningful technical leadership.  
** Key Responsibilities
*** Act as the technical authority for storage, backup, recovery and cyber resilience technologies, defining standards and engineering best practice.
* Lead the design, implementation and continual improvement of Cohesity Data Protect, Azure backup and enterprise storage platforms.
* Drive recovery assurance, cyber recovery and ransomware recovery testing to improve resilience and recoverability outcomes.
* Partner with Architecture, Security, Cloud and Operations teams to deliver strategic roadmaps, automation and platform modernisation initiatives.
* Provide governance, supplier oversight and technical leadership for complex incidents, major changes and regulatory requirements.
* Reduce operational complexity, technical debt and cost through optimisation, simplification and Infrastructure as Code approaches.  
** About the Candidate
*** Strong hands-on experience with Cohesity Data Protect administration,…