Backup and Storage Engineer
Backup & Storage Engineer
Location: Sydney or Newcastle
Salary: $150,000 incl. super
Experience: 4+ years’ experience
The Opportunity
We’re looking for an experienced Backup & Storage Engineer to join a high-performing infrastructure team supporting important environments. This role is ideal for someone with deep hands-on experience across Veeam, Azure Native Backup, cloud storage, and enterprise Dell storage platforms, who enjoys owning resilience, availability, and recovery outcomes end-to-end.
You’ll be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimising modern backup and storage solutions across on-prem and cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities
Backup & Recovery (Veeam)
- Deploy, configure, and maintain Veeam Backup & Replication across virtual, physical, and cloud workloads
- Design and manage backup policies, schedules, retention, immutability, and copy jobs
- Manage Veeam components including Backup Proxies, Repositories, WAN Accelerators, and Cloud Connect
- Perform restores, SureBackup testing, and DR failover/failback activities
- Integrate Veeam with VMware, Hyper-V, and cloud platforms
- Troubleshoot backup failures, performance issues, and repository problems
Azure Native Backup & DR
- Configure and manage Azure Backup Vaults and Recovery Services Vaults
- Support backups for:
- Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Files & Blob Storage
- SQL workloads on Azure VMs
- AKS clusters (where applicable)
- improve storage using Hot, Cool, and Archive tiers, including immutable backups
- Support Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for disaster recovery scenarios
- Monitor backup health and SLAs using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
Cloud Storage (Nexon)
- Manage and configure Nexon Cloud / Nexon Managed Storage solutions
- Provision storage volumes, shares, snapshots, and replication policies
- Integrate cloud storage with Veeam, VMware, and Azure workloads
- Monitor performance, utilisation, capacity growth, and compliance requirements
Dell Enterprise Storage
- Support Dell EMC storage platforms including:
- PowerStore
- Unity
- Isilon / PowerScale
- SC Series (where applicable)
- Perform LUN and volume provisioning, zoning, masking, and multipathing
- Manage storage protocols: iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS, SMB
- Configure snapshots, replication (sync/async), tiering, and clones
- Execute firmware upgrades, expansions, and performance tuning
Operations & Optimisation
- Proactively monitor backup and storage environments
- Identify performance, availability, and capacity risks
- Support compliance, retention, and DR testing requirements
- Contribute to documentation, standards, and continuous improvement
Skills & Experience
- 4-10 years’ experience in backup and storage engineering roles
- Strong hands-on experience with Veeam Backup & Replication
- Proven experience with Azure Native Backup and Recovery
- Enterprise storage experience, ideally Dell EMC platforms
- Cloud storage exposure (Nexon or similar managed cloud storage solutions)
- Strong troubleshooting and operational mindset
- Experience in hybrid (on-prem + cloud) environments
Why Apply?
- Flexible location: Sydney or Newcastle
- Work with modern cloud and enterprise storage technologies
- High-impact role supporting critical systems and DR outcomes