# Senior Technology Engineer, Backup & Storage

> GSSTech Group · Bengaluru, India · — · Posted 2026-10-23

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

### About the Role

Our client, a leading Middle East banking group, is looking for a Senior Technology Engineer to own the engineering lifecycle of its backup, storage, and cyber recovery platforms. You will design, build, automate, and run a standardised stack of infrastructure products used across the organisation. The environment is high availability, high transaction volume, and globally distributed, so resilience and recoverability are non-negotiable.

The role sits in a matrix structure, reporting to the head of the infrastructure engineering function while working within a platform squad that drives delivery across design, development, implementation, standardisation, automation, and capacity planning. The ideal candidate is a T-shaped engineer: deep in Linux and data protection, broad enough to move across DevOps, cloud, and virtualisation as projects require.

### Key Responsibilities

**Data Protection and Cyber Recovery**

-   Design, implement, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery solutions across on-premise, virtualised, and cloud workloads
-   Build and operate cyber recovery capabilities, including isolated recovery vaults, immutable backups, air-gapped copies, and ransomware recovery testing
-   Define and enforce backup policies, retention schedules, and RPO/RTO targets aligned with regulatory and business requirements
-   Run regular restore and DR drills, and document recoverability evidence for audit
-   Manage storage capacity planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle of storage and backup infrastructure

**Technology Engineering**

-   Act as the Linux subject matter expert, covering hardening, patching, and OS compliance against security baselines
-   Automate deployment, configuration, and backup operations using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools
-   Manage virtualisation environments and their integration with backup platforms
-   Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, storage, and application issues with development and operations teams
-   Configure compute, storage, and networking services on Azure, AWS, or OCI, including cloud native backup

**Delivery**

-   Own projects from inception to production, covering design, build, test, handover, and BAU support
-   Apply DevOps, SRE, IaC, and 12 Factor principles to infrastructure delivery
-   Integrate platform components into CI/CD pipelines
-   Contribute to technology stack reduction and platform cost optimisation targets
-   Handle BAU incidents and root cause analysis for backup failures and storage issues

**Stakeholder Management**

-   Work with the wider infrastructure team to keep deliverables consistent across platforms
-   Collaborate with the security function to align with security standards and contribute to design forums
-   Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and manage expectations under pressure

### Requirements

**Essential**

-   Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field
-   10+ years in infrastructure engineering or operations, with at least 3 years in a similar senior role
-   Strong hands-on experience with enterprise data protection platforms such as Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect / Avamar / Data Domain, Veeam, Rubrik, or Cohesity
-   Practical experience with cyber recovery solutions such as vault architectures and immutable storage
-   Expert Linux administration (RHEL, Oracle Linux, or similar)
-   Solid understanding of enterprise storage (SAN, NAS, object storage)
-   Experience with virtualisation technologies, ideally VMware
-   Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably Terraform, plus configuration management with Ansible or similar
-   Exposure to Kubernetes or OpenShift and backup of containerised workloads
-   Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrations
-   Hands-on configuration of public cloud services on Azure, AWS, or OCI
-   Experience in large, complex enterprises with high availability requirements, ideally banking or financial services

**Desirable**

-   Certifications such as Commvault Professional, Veritas NetBackup, Dell Data Protection, RHCE, VMware VCP, CKA, or Azure/AWS associate level
-   Knowledge of banking regulatory requirements around data retention and resilience
-   Scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell

### Behavioural Competencies

-   Self-starter with strong initiative
-   Calm and methodical under pressure, especially during incidents and recovery events
-   Pragmatic and outcome focused
-   Willing to learn and adopt new technologies
-   Clear, structured communicator

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