Data Protection Automation Engineer
Posted 1 week ago by Deloitte
Negotiable
Inside
Undetermined
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Data Protection Automation Engineer role in South Yorkshire requires an experienced professional with a strong understanding of the scrum framework and the ability to coordinate projects effectively. The position involves designing, developing, and supporting automation for data protection services, as well as mentoring junior staff. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with collaboration tools and DevOps practices, particularly in automation and configuration management. This role is set to start in early October 2025 and end in December 2025.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups.
- Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.
- Collaborate as part of a team and serve as an excellent individual contributor.
- Design, develop, test, and support automation for data protection services (NetBackup and CommVault).
- Design, develop, test, and support reporting and monitoring capabilities for automation.
- Provide engineering support on the bank’s data protection automation and their use.
- Undertake product evaluation, new features, and versions.
- Produce clear and comprehensive documentation for all automation produced.
- Mentor less experienced members of staff.
Key Skills:
- Highly practiced with collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence).
- Hands-on experience in DevOps SCM tooling, with expert level use of GitHub.
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement).
- Comprehensive experience in configuration management and orchestration using Redhat Ansible.
- Extensive knowledge of software development languages, including Python and Bash.
- Proficient in designing, developing, and testing Rest API services.
- Proficient in using third-party API services and understanding their capabilities.
- Ability to convert Puppet code into other platforms (Ansible).
- Data Protection (Backup and Restore) experience.
- General on-premise infrastructure experience.
- Knowledgeable in Cohesity NetBackup and related infrastructure.
- Knowledgeable in Commvault and related infrastructure.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Sheffield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: Data Protection Automation Engineer
Location: South Yorkshire (inside IR35)
Start Date: Early October 2025
End date: December 2025
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Data Protection Automation Engineer . You should have excellent knowledge of the scrum framework, with all its artifacts and techniques. You’ll also need the ability to coordinate people and projects with your mind set on deliverables.
What you will be expected to in this role:
- Contribute to sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
- Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
- Work collaboratively as part of a team and be an excellent individual contributor
- Design, develop, test and support automation for the data protection services (NetBackup and CommVault) within the bank.
- Design, develop, test and support reporting and monitoring capabilities for the automation.
- Provide engineering support on the bank’s data protection automation and their use.
- Undertake product evaluation, new features, and versions.
- Produce clear and comprehensive documentation for all automation produced.
- Mentor less experienced members of staff
The following skills are required for this role:
- Highly practiced with use of collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence)
- Hands on experience in Devops SCM tooling, with expert level use of GitHub
- Have excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
- Comprehensive experience in configuration management and orchestration using Redhat Ansible
- Extensive knowledge of software development languages, including Python, Bash
- Proficient in designing, developing, and testing Rest API services.
- Proficient in using third-party API services, and understanding how/where to locate their capability
Additional skills which would be ideal:
- Ability to convert Puppet code into other platforms (Ansible)
- Data Protection (Backup and Restore) experience
- General on-premise infrastructure experience
- Knowledgeable in Cohesity NetBackup and related infrastructure
- Knowledgeable in Commvault and related infrastructure