Rubrik Architect

Rubrik Architect – 6-month contract – Remote

My longstanding utilities client is seeking an experienced Rubrik Architect to review and enhance an existing enterprise backup and recovery platform.

The focus for the Rubrik Architect is on assessing the current implementation, identifying technical gaps and delivering improvements across data protection, cyber resilience, automation and recovery capabilities.

Key Skills & Experience from the Rubrik Architect:

Strong hands-on experience with Rubrik, including enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
Proven experience reviewing, troubleshooting and optimising an existing Rubrik environment.
Knowledge of Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) and Cloud Data Management (CDM); Cloud Cluster and Exocompute experience is beneficial.
Strong understanding of cyber resilience, ransomware protection, disaster recovery and recovery testing.
Experience across hybrid infrastructure environments, including virtualisation, storage, servers and public cloud.
Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and/or AWS.
Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and Ansible.
Ability to assess existing architectures, identify weaknesses and deliver practical technical improvements.
Key Responsibilities of the Rubrik Architect:

Review the existing Rubrik implementation, architecture and configuration, identifying opportunities for improvement.
Enhance backup, recovery and cyber resilience capabilities, including ransomware protection and disaster recovery.
Design and optimise Rubrik solutions across on-premises, virtualised and cloud environments.
Develop technical designs, engineering standards and recommendations to support the platform's ongoing development.
Drive automation and Infrastructure as Code to improve consistency and operational efficiency.
Improve monitoring, reporting and dashboards to provide visibility of platform health, compliance and recovery readiness.
Test and validate backup integrity and recovery capabilities against business requirements.
Work with architecture, engineering and operational teams to deliver technical improvements and define the future direction of the platform.
The Rubrik Architect can work fully remote for the duration of the contract.

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