Backup and Storage Engineer

  • Australia
  • Sydney
  • Permanent
  • AU$140000 - AU$150000 per annum

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

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