Infrastructure Engineer in Barton

Job ID: 15749Company: Sopra SteriaLocation: Stevenage | Portsmouth, GBR | Coedkernew, Newport, GBREmployment type: PermanentCategory: Network and InfrastructureIndustry: Professional ServicesLevel: Level 1+Posted: 2026-10-10

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Storage and Backup?

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace Defence and Security sector are currently recruiting
for a Storage and Backup Engineer with the ability to hit the ground running
and make a real difference in the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for
anyone with previous experience in SAN, NAS and backup technologies who is
looking to develop their skills and become a technical expert. This role sits
within a group level account putting you in the best place to progress.

This role is based on site at one of our regional hubs (Newport, Portsmouth or
Stevenage) approximately 4 days per week.

Due to the nature of the client we are only able to progress with sole British citizens eligible for SC clearance.

What you’ll be doing:

• Enthusiastic and keen to
  learn, looking to acquire the knowledge required to be a point of
  technical escalation.
• Strong customer focus
  encompassing BAU ticketing and task management across Storage and Backup
  spaces.
• Performing capacity
  planning, performance tuning, and storage optimisation across multiple
  environments.
• Working with projects
  team as required – Includes supporting upcoming unique, large scale, one
  of a kind, European-wide project.

What you’ll bring:

• Working knowledge of
  storage services, hardware deployment, configuration, and administration
  (NetApp experience preferred).
• Strong Knowledge of
  NAS/SAN provisioning, NFS/SMB shares, storage virtual machines
  (SVMs).
• Experience upgrading
  storage appliances and processes required to do so.
• Knowledge of fibre
  channel zoning and LUN creation (preferable).
• Experience with Backup
  tooling and technologies (Veeam preferable). Snapshot-based backups and
  robotic library systems knowledge.
• Administration of backup
  technologies, policy design, scheduling, retention plans and restore and
  recovery workflows.
• Previous experience with
  regulatory, encryption, retention, and audit requirements a bonus.

If
you’re interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are
exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment
Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Newport
Security Clearance Level: Must be eligible for SC
Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker
Salary: Competitive based on experience
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional
days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

Although
this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can
promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves
performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can
offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and
need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what
might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and
deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a
real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a
unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional
development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing
knowledge and learning from each other. xsabvtc We foster a culture in which employees
feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer,
delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex
safety- and security-critical markets.