Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Backup)

Keyloop bridges the gap between dealers, manufacturers, technology suppliers and car buyers.

We empower car dealers and manufacturers to fully embrace digital transformation. How? By creating innovative technology that makes selling cars better for our customers, and buying and owning cars better for theirs.

• We use cutting-edge technology to link our clients’ systems, departments and sites. We provide an open technology platform that’s shaping the industry for the future. We use data to help clients become more efficient, increase profitability and give more customers an amazing experience.
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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Backup Systems and Services Design Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team. The role is responsible for the architecture, engineering, governance and highest-level technical support (L3/L3.5) of enterprise backup, recovery and data-protection services.

The successful candidate will act as a senior technical authority for Rubrik across physical appliances and virtual deployments running on Nutanix within OVHcloud, together with AWS Backup across the public-cloud estate. The role combines deep backup engineering expertise with a strong focus on cyber resilience, recoverability, automation, security and operational excellence.

The engineer will lead service design and modernisation, provide escalation support for complex failures, and ensure that backup services are measurable, tested, documented and aligned to business recovery requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement and

maintain

enterprise backup and recovery services across

datacentre

, hosted and public-cloud environments.

Own the architecture, standards,

patterns

and technical governance for Rubrik and AWS Backup.

Engineer and support Rubrik physical appliances and virtual Rubrik deployments hosted on Nutanix infrastructure within

OVHcloud

.

Design protection policies, SLA domains, retention, replication, archival and recovery patterns appropriate to workload criticality and regulatory requirements.

Act as the L3/L3.5 escalation point for complex backup, restore, replication, performance,

capacity

and platform incidents.

Lead root-cause analysis and permanent remediation for recurring backup failures, missed protection, slow recovery and data-protection risks.

Design and govern AWS Backup plans, vaults, resource assignments, cross-account and cross-Region protection, retention and restore capabilities.

Plan and execute platform upgrades, lifecycle activity, migrations and service-modernisation initiatives with controlled rollback and recovery arrangements.

Define and oversee recovery testing, including application-consistent restores, full-system recovery and disaster-recovery exercises.

Integrate backup platforms with identity, monitoring, alerting, service management, security, storage, virtualisation and cloud services.

Develop automation using APIs,

scripting

and Infrastructure as Code to improve policy deployment, compliance reporting,

testing

and operational efficiency.

Maintain

accurate

technical documentation, configuration records, runbooks, recovery procedures, service maps and support knowledge.

Work with security, application, database, cloud, Nutanix, network and service-management teams to ensure end-to-end recoverability.

Provide technical leadership, mentoring and design assurance for engineers and delivery teams.

Required Experience

Extensive experience designing,

engineering

and supporting enterprise backup and recovery platforms in business-critical environments.

Strong hands-on

expertise

with Rubrik Cloud Data Management and Rubrik Security Cloud, including protection policies, SLA domains, replication, archival, restores, upgrades,

monitoring

and troubleshooting.

Experience with both Rubrik physical appliances and virtual deployments, including platform sizing, resilience,

lifecycle

and dependency management.

Good understanding of Nutanix AHV and the infrastructure dependencies of virtual backup appliances.

Experience supporting hosted or cloud infrastructure environments, ideally including

OVHcloud

.

Strong knowledge of AWS Backup, including backup plans, vaults, resource assignments, IAM roles and policies, AWS KMS, tagging, cross-account or cross-Region copies, retention and restore operations.

Experience protecting and recovering Windows and Linux servers, virtual machines, databases, file services and cloud-native workloads.

• Strong understanding of backup architecture, recovery-point and recovery-time objectives
• , retention, immutability, encryption, key management and cyber-recovery principles.

Demonstrable experience diagnosing complex failures across backup software,

compute

, storage, virtualisation, networking,

identity

and cloud services.

Experience producing high-level and low-level designs, standards, operational procedures and technical decision records.

Experience with capacity planning, performance analysis, licensing

awareness

and cost optimisation for backup services.

Why join us?

We’re on a journey to become market leaders in our space – and with that comes some incredible opportunities. Collaborate and learn from industry experts from all over the globe. Work with game-changing products and services. Get the training and support you need to try new things, adapt to quick changes and explore different paths. Join Keyloop and progress your career, your way.

An inclusive environment to thrive

We’re committed to fostering an inclusive work environment. One that respects all dimensions of diversity.  We promote an inclusive culture within our business, and we celebrate different employees and lifestyles – not just on key days, but every day.

Be rewarded for your efforts

We believe people should be paid based on their performance so our pay and benefits reflect this and are designed to attract the very best talent. We encourage everyone in our organisation to explore opportunities which enable them to grow their career through investment in their development but equally by working in a culture which fosters support and unbridled collaboration.

Keyloop doesn’t require academic qualifications for this position. We select based on experience and potential, not credentials.

We are also an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.  We value diversity and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.

"At Keyloop, AI is a daily ally: We encourage and train every employee to use our AI tools to boost their creativity and productivity."