Backup and Recovery Engineer

Backup and Recovery Engineer

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for an outstanding Backup and Recovery Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital, to assist in the design of Infrastructure services in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Hands on experience in Implementation, Migration, Operations and Support of Backup applications.
• Demonstrable use of Rubrik backup solutions across multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, OCI GCP) and on-premises infrastructure and experience of Integration of Rubrik with external platforms (e.g. ServiceNow, Splunk, vSphere, Azure AD) using REST APIs and automation tools (Ansible)
• Proven ability of managing Cloud compute, storage, and configurations, ensuring solutions are repeatable, scalable, resilient, and highly available
• Experience and knowledge of service management frameworks (ITIL - Incident, Problem, Change and SLAs).
• Demonstrable experience of producing and rapidly delivering minimum viable solutions, results focused with ability to prioritize the most impactful work.
• Working experience of regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, DORA and their organizational impact. Support audit and regulatory compliance efforts related to data protection.

You and your role

A day as a Backup and Recovery Engineer is all about keeping the organisation's data safe and recoverable, whether it lives in the cloud or on‑prem. You'll spend your time making sure backup systems are running smoothly, spotting issues before they become problems and jumping in to fix things fast when they do. You'll work closely with Architects, SREs, Delivery Managers and Product Managers, so there's plenty of collaboration as you help shape and run the backup services everyone relies on.

Some days you'll be involved in designing or improving how we back things up across public cloud and traditional infrastructure. Other days are more hands on, checking alerts, dealing with backup failures, looking into suspicious activity or helping colleagues understand how the systems work. When major incidents happen, you take the lead in getting everything back to a healthy state, working with security teams if there's anything unusual going on, like potential ransomware or unauthorised access.

You'll move between Linux and Windows environments depending on what needs doing. Overall, it's a mix of problem solving, teamwork, technical know‑how and keeping the department's data safe and recoverable every single day.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £52,442

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £12,000 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexitime. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

Process:

We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:

Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.

Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.