Rubrik SME – 11856JS

11856JS
£600 – 680 per day

Rubrik SME

Inside IR35 / 4 days onsite

Our client is a leading global financial institution undergoing continued investment across its technology and data infrastructure. As part of this transformation, they are looking for an experienced Rubrik SME to join their Storage & Data Protection function.

The role will suit someone who has a strong background in Rubrik, enterprise backup, data protection and storage, ideally within a large-scale, highly regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the SME and technical owner for Rubrik and enterprise backup technologies.
• Oversee the design, implementation, administration and ongoing optimisation of backup systems and associated infrastructure.
• Manage and maintain backup and storage services across EMEA and international environments.
• Monitor backup success rates, identify recurring issues and drive improvements to minimise and ultimately eliminate backup failures.
• Ensure Rubrik and associated technologies are maintained, patched and upgraded in line with vendor recommendations and organisational standards.
• Ensure backup and storage platforms meet stringent security, risk, control and regulatory requirements.
• Design and implement appropriate operational controls to mitigate risks associated with data protection and storage.
• Ensure data is backed up and retained in accordance with corporate policies and regulatory requirements.
• Manage restoration requests and ensure historical data can be recovered reliably and within agreed SLAs.
• Ensure backup and storage environments meet agreed SLAs, KPIs, availability and resilience requirements.
• Support the development of BCP and Disaster Recovery strategies for new and existing services.
• Contribute to architecture decisions, technology standards and the strategic roadmap for backup and storage.
• Identify opportunities to introduce new technologies and improve the resilience, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the environment.
• Manage capacity and identify potential capacity risks before they impact service.
• Provide technical input into wider technology programmes and change initiatives.
• Participate in audits, investigations and regulatory assessments where required.
• Maintain accurate, comprehensive technical and operational documentation.
• Identify opportunities for automation to improve operational efficiency.
• Provide technical consultancy to development, infrastructure and other technology teams.
• Provide day-to-day SME support for backup and storage technologies and assist with incident and request management.

Essential skills:

• Extensive hands-on experience with Rubrik in an enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of backup, recovery and data protection technologies.
• Experience designing, implementing and supporting enterprise backup platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and operational resilience.
• Experience working within large-scale, complex infrastructure environments.
• Strong understanding of security, privileged access, risk and control requirements.
• Experience working with SLAs, KPIs, capacity management and service availability.

Desirable skills:

• VMware / virtualisation
• Microsoft environments
• Azure / AWS or other cloud platforms
• NAS / enterprise storage
• SAN / storage networking
• Replication technologies
• Database backup and recovery
• PowerShell, Python or other automation technologies
• REST APIs
• Cyber resilience and ransomware recovery
• Immutable backup / air-gapped recovery strategies
• Financial services or another highly regulated environment

Rubrik SME

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