Cloud Backup and Recovery Consultant

Cloud Backup & Recovery Consultant About the role We're hiring a Cloud Backup & Recovery Consultant to help customers implement, automate and validate data protection and recovery solutions across public-cloud and hybrid environments. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role combining cloud engineering with backup and disaster recovery. You'll work directly with customers to understand their requirements, deliver technical solutions and test that workloads can be recovered when needed. Public-cloud delivery experience is essential. A strong background in on-premises backup is valuable, but we're looking for consultants whose experience extends into cloud-native services, cloud infrastructure and automation. Strong expertise in AWS, Azure or GCP is welcome, you do not need to be an expert in all three. What you'll be doing

• Delivering cloud-native backup and disaster recovery implementations, from understanding customer requirements through to configuration, testing and handover.
• Integrating solutions with customer cloud environments, addressing networking, storage, security, identity and access management, and hybrid connectivity.
• Building scripts and automation to streamline deployments, integrations and customer onboarding at scale.
• Configuring and validating protection for virtualised infrastructure, databases, NAS/file workloads and SaaS platforms such as Microsoft 365.
• Troubleshooting backup and recovery issues, identifying application dependencies, and producing clear technical documentation and recovery procedures. What we're looking for
• Experience in professional services, consulting, architecture or solutions engineering within backup, data protection or a closely related domain such as storage.
• Strong hands-on capability in AWS, Azure or GCP, covering networking, security/IAM, storage and hybrid connectivity such as VPNs, AWS Direct Connect or Azure ExpressRoute.
• Practical experience implementing or operating cloud-native backup and disaster recovery solutions, including restore processes and recovery testing.
• Scripting and automation skills, using tools such as Python, PowerShell, Terraform or Ansible.
• A solid grounding in workload protection, including VMware or similar virtualised environments, SQL Server or Oracle databases, NAS/file services and Microsoft 365.
• The ability to explain technical decisions clearly, work confidently with customer teams and take ownership of hands-on delivery. Useful additional experience Familiarity with Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID protection and recovery.