Lead Backup

Job Description
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent. Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society. We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent. Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs: interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them. Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers. Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes. About the Department Infrastructure Services provides the secure, resilient and scalable technology foundations that support Aberdeen’s business and client services. Working closely with Architecture, Security, Cloud and Operations teams, the department drives modernisation, operational resilience and service excellence. The team fosters collaboration, continuous improvement and technical leadership, enabling our clients to be better investors through dependable infrastructure services.

About the Role
We are seeking a Lead Storage & Backup Engineer to provide technical leadership across enterprise storage, backup, recovery and cyber resilience services. Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Services, you will own the engineering direction for Cohesity DataProtect, Azure backup and storage platforms, recovery assurance and infrastructure resilience capabilities. This is an opportunity to influence strategy, modernise critical services and lead high-impact initiatives across regulated technology environments. The role offers significant exposure across architecture, security, operations and supplier management, helping you invest in your tomorrow through meaningful technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities
Act as the technical authority for storage, backup, recovery and cyber resilience technologies, defining standards and engineering best practice. Lead the design, implementation and continual improvement of Cohesity DataProtect, Azure backup and enterprise storage platforms. Drive recovery assurance, cyber recovery and ransomware recovery testing to improve resilience and recoverability outcomes. Partner with Architecture, Security, Cloud and Operations teams to deliver strategic roadmaps, automation and platform modernisation initiatives. Provide governance, supplier oversight and technical leadership for complex incidents, major changes and regulatory requirements. Reduce operational complexity, technical debt and cost through optimisation, simplification and Infrastructure as Code approaches. About the Candidate Strong hands-on experience with Cohesity DataProtect or other Backup infrastructure like Veritas, Veeam, Rubrik for example across administration, engineering and troubleshooting across enterprise workloads. Proven expertise in enterprise backup, recovery, replication, immutability and cyber resilience solutions. Strong experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure, Azure Backup, Recovery Services Vaults and storage services. Other cloud environment experience is also considered (AWS or GCP) Knowledge of enterprise storage platforms, SAN, NAS, replication, performance optimisation and capacity planning. Experience developing technical standards, solution designs, automation and Infrastructure as Code practices. Desirable criteria : Cohesity certifications; Microsoft Azure certifications such as AZ-104 or AZ-305; experience with Veritas NetBackup, Rubrik or similar platforms; Financial Services experience; and integration with monitoring, ITSM, CMDB and reporting tooling. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process. We want you to be the real you throughout our recruitment process. Sharing your diversity information helps us understand the reach and impact of our hiring practices, and build a workpla