Senior Data Protection Engineer (Backup & Cyber Resilience)

Senior Data Protection Engineer (Backup & Cyber Resilience)

Location: Windsor, UK

Introduction

We’re hiring a Senior Data Protection Engineer to join a global hosting and managed services team. The team runs business-critical, highly regulated systems for organisations around the world, many of them in healthcare, where losing data or failing to recover it is not an option.

This is a senior role with real influence. You’ll own the enterprise backup and recovery platform across all regions. You’ll set the standards for how data is protected, retained and restored, and you’ll show, with evidence, that recovery targets are met. You’ll also help shape where data protection services go next, at a time when cyber resilience matters more than ever.

Responsibilities & Tasks

• Run the platform globally. Lead the engineering, administration and continuous improvement of an enterprise Rubrik environment. This covers configuration, upgrades, capacity planning, health monitoring, security hardening and lifecycle management.

• Set the rules. Design and enforce global protection policies, including SLA tiers, retention, archiving, replication, immutability, encryption and access controls.

• Turn requirements into protection. Convert business, regulatory, contractual and risk needs into clear protection tiers, RPO and RTO targets, and practical operating procedures.

• Keep coverage complete. Bring new workloads into the service and keep protection accurate across on-premises, cloud, virtualised, database and application environments.

• Keep operations healthy. Monitor backup, replication, archiving and restore activity. Fix failed jobs, capacity pressure, performance issues and policy exceptions before they become risks.

• Prove that recovery works. Plan and run restore tests, disaster recovery exercises and readiness reviews, and keep the evidence that recovery targets and controls are met.

• Strengthen cyber resilience. Work with security and incident response teams on ransomware readiness, anomaly investigations, clean-recovery planning and privileged-access controls.

• Build strong governance. Write the runbooks, standards and procedures that define good practice, and help regions and technology teams adopt them consistently.

• Lead when it counts. Take technical ownership during incidents and service disruptions, and drive root cause analysis and lasting corrective actions.

• Automate. Use APIs, scripting and orchestration tools to automate routine operations, compliance checks, reporting and workflows.

• Report clearly. Give regular insight into protection coverage, recoverability, compliance, capacity, platform risk and operational performance.

• Work across teams. Partner closely with infrastructure, cloud, database, application, security, risk and business continuity colleagues, and take part in a shared on-call rota for critical production services.

Requirements & Qualifications

Essential:

• A solid track record of engineering and running enterprise-scale backup, recovery and data protection services

• Extensive hands-on production experience with Rubrik

• A current Rubrik Certified System Administrator (RCSA) certification

• Experience designing and rolling out data protection policies, standards and operating models across multiple regions

• A strong grasp of retention, immutability, encryption, access control, RPO and RTO, and recovery validation

• Hands-on involvement in disaster recovery, cyber recovery or ransomware-resilience initiatives

• Strong troubleshooting skills, and familiarity with incident, change and problem management processes

• Experience supporting production services in a 24x7 or on-call environment

Benefits & Culture

• Global reach and visible impact: Your work will directly protect critical services, including healthcare systems that clinicians and care providers rely on every day.

• Real ownership: You’ll have a strong voice in policy design, retention strategy, cyber resilience, automation and the long-term direction of the service.

• Collaborative environment: You’ll join experienced engineers and architects who value shared ownership, operational excellence and openly sharing knowledge.

• Growth and development: You’ll keep developing your skills on an enterprise-grade platform, with support for certifications and continuous learning.

• Competitive rewards: The package includes market-aligned pay and comprehensive benefits that reflect a senior technical role.

If you want to make data protection dependable at a global scale, we’d love to hear from you.