Backup and Storage Engineer

Main Purpose: This role is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the backup and storage infrastructure for Trafigura. This role ensures that the company's data is always stored securely, efficiently, and is backed up properly to prevent data loss and ensure business continuity. The Backup and Storage Engineer will work closely with Engineering and Operations teams to create scalable, cost-effective, and reliable data storage solutions that align with business needs and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and architect scalable, secure, and highly available storage solutions (on-premises, cloud, or hybrid).
• Develop and implement data backup and disaster recovery strategies, ensuring minimal downtime and data loss.
• Optimize storage performance, capacity planning, and cost management across the organization’s infrastructure.
• Oversee the integration of backup solutions with other enterprise systems and applications.
• Ensure compliance with data retention policies, regulatory requirements, and security standards.
• Monitor storage and backup systems for performance, availability, and health, implementing necessary improvements or troubleshooting issues.
• Evaluate and recommend new storage technologies, backup tools, and methodologies to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Automate backup processes and policies to enhance data protection and recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).
• Maintain documentation of storage and backup architectures, processes, and configurations.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure data encryption, access control, and integrity for both storage and backup systems.
• Provide training and support to internal teams on best practices for data storage, backup, and recovery.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in backup and storage management or a related field.

Specialist Knowledge:

• Dell Avamar, Rubrik and Veeam data protection technology.
• Experience running backup and storage systems from a global perspective.
• NetApp and Pure SAN, NAS and Object storage technology.
• Strong understanding of automation tooling and programming languages such as Python, Powershell, Ansible, etc.
• Strong understanding of data storage capacity and performance concerns.

Competencies:

• Problem-solving.
• Ability to improve business processes.
• Able to use initiative.
• Strategic planning.

Key Relationships:

• Platform Engineering Team.
• Vendor management.
• Windows Engineering Team.
• Outsourced IT management.

Department Trafigura Group IT provides shared services across the Trafigura group of companies, offering services at scale where it makes economic sense.

Reporting Structure: The engineer will report to the Platform Architect and will join a team of six other engineers who work in a collaborative team covering the Storage, Linux and Virtualisation towers.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.