Backup and Storage Engineer

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Warwick based with hybrid working

National Gas is securing Britain’s energy. We are responsible for transporting gas to power stations, major industries, storage facilities, and more than half a million businesses and 24 million homes through nearly 5,000 miles of pipes across Britain. National Gas is also proud to lead the way in transforming the energy network for a clean energy future.

The Backup & Storage Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of secure, resilient backup and recovery solutions within the National Gas Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) and Enterprise environments - ensuring all data protection strategies meet stringent availability, integrity, and compliance requirements, with a primary focus on rapid, reliable backup and restore capabilities to support operational continuity in high-risk and highly regulated settings.

Operating within the Technology Infrastructure team and working closely with security, and application teams, the Backup & Storage Engineer ensures backup solutions are aligned with cyber resilience strategies, including protection against ransomware and data corruption. They implement immutable storage, air-gapped backups, and encryption controls to safeguard sensitive and operationally critical data assets.

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• Management of CNI data storage platforms - to ensure availability, reliability, security and asset health of critical applications that support the safe operation of National Transmission System (NTS). The role holders will ensure 24/7 availability of this service (1 week in 2 on standby).
• System monitoring and optimisation - perform incident response and change management for efficiency and cost control.
• Management of all CNI and cloud backups. Identification of failures, execution of remediation and compliance with standards and policies.
• Enhancing Security - identification and remediation of potential issues. Collaboration with Security Teams to ensure compliance with security KPIs and operational outputs.
• Ownership of project deliverables, related change/incident tickets to meet timelines, KPIs and SLAs.
• Management of CNI data vaults and backup media. Provision of immutable storage to remediate potential cyber risks to SCADA is essential. Performing confirmation and validation exercises to assure data security and availability.
• Perform Disaster Recovery exercises and collaborate in the development of Testing Strategies.

We’re looking for someone proven experience as a Backup and Storage Administrator or similar role with CNI responsibility.

Knowledge:

• Advanced specialist knowledge of Storage and Backup platforms in both an on-premis air gapped Critical National Infrastructure and cloud setting.
• Knowledge of CNI Key Performance Indicators and established best practises, required to deliver world class results.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with project teams, service owners, and other stakeholders.
• Familiarity with Project Delivery and Continuous Improvement methods and processes.
• Knowledge of the Cyber Assessment Framework and Audit Assessments (e.g ISO
  27001).

• Strong Windows and Linux Skills.
• Proficiency with Automation Tools (e.g Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation)
• Ability to perform Performance Tuning, Right Sizing and Disaster Recovery
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex transition plans and updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to deploy and manage containerised workloads.

• Relevant Certification for either Storage or Backup Technologies e.g. CCPP, Managing Alletra, etc
• Bachelor's degree in relevant subject or equivalent Technology experience.
• ITILv4 Foundation Certificate.

• Base salary £55,000-£63,000 dependant on experience
• £15,262 additional standby allowance for on-call rota (1 week in
  2) per annum
• Annual performance bonus
• 34 days' holiday (inc. statutory days) - plus option to buy/sell 5 additional days
• Opt-In flexible benefit scheme, including salary sacrifice car plan, private healthcare,…