Overview

Sumitomo Mitsui Finance Dublin Limited (SMFD) is a wholly owned subsidiary of SMBC and is growing rapidly as a Centre of Excellence for the bank's universal banking business across EMEA. It provides a range of technology and operational support services, aligned to SMBC's growth, innovation, and transformation strategies. This role is for an experienced Storage & Data Protection Engineer (Assistant Vice President) to join the Platform Engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Managing and maintaining enterprise storage and backup systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity across a global infrastructure.
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimising storage and data protection environments, including proactive incident response and lifecycle management of hardware and software.
• Collaborating with cross-functional IT teams and vendors to implement new solutions, support business continuity and disaster recovery plans, and ensure compliance with security and operational standards.
• Maintain technical documentation and integrate automation where appropriate.
• Support business continuity and disaster recovery readiness across global data centres.

What you’ll bring to the role

• Strong experience with enterprise storage and backup technologies (e.g. NetApp, Dell PowerMax/PowerStore, Rubrik) in highly virtualised environments.
• Solid understanding of networking, virtualisation, and data centre operations.
• Hands-on experience in managing hardware and software lifecycles and patching schedules.
• Excellent communication and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to work across global teams and manage vendor relationships effectively.
• Desirable: Knowledge of scripting or automation tools (PowerShell, APIs).
• Experience working in regulated, process-driven environments. Familiarity with enterprise server/storage hardware and cloud-based backup solutions.

About the role

This role has been created to ensure the operational stability, resilience, and lifecycle management of the organisation's enterprise storage and data protection infrastructure. It supports business continuity, disaster recovery, and secure data management across a global IT estate. The role will engage with stakeholders including infrastructure and platform teams, application owners, IT operations, and external vendors.

What will you do: Manage and maintain enterprise storage and backup systems, ensuring high availability and performance. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise storage and data protection environments, including proactive incident response and lifecycle management. Support business continuity and disaster recovery readiness across global data centres. Collaborate with global IT teams and vendors to implement new solutions and maintain operational standards.

Apply and contact

If the above role is of interest please apply to this ad or contact for more information. Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates. Email: darius.goodarzi@robertwalters.com; Telephone: 0207 509 8040.