Job title: Veeam Backup & Recovery Consultant
Day rate: £350 per day - Outside IR35/Limited Company
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 1-2 months
Location: Fully remote
Role
We are seeking an experienced Veeam Backup & Recovery Consultant to deliver the Veeam component of a large-scale greenfield datacentre deployment. The wider project includes Azure Local infrastructure, Dell storage platforms, and disaster recovery capabilities across two active-active datacentres.
The successful Veeam Backup & Recovery Consultant will be responsible for the design, deployment, testing, and handover of the Veeam backup and replication solution.
Project Environment
- Azure Local with Dell PowerStore (FC SAN)
- Dell PowerScale with Superna
- Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1
- Veeam Data Cloud Vault
- Dell R760XD Linux Hardened Repositories (2 per site, 600TB capacity)
- Remote delivery (physical installation completed by onsite team)
Responsibilities - Lead Veeam design workshops covering backup, replication, DR, and recovery requirements.
- Design and deploy Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Linux Hardened Repositories, and Data Cloud Vault.
- Assess the requirement for Veeam Recovery Orchestrator.
- Configure backup, replication, and monitoring.
- Perform UAT, including backup, restore, replication, and failover testing.
- Migrate and validate up to 10 VMs.
- Produce as-built documentation, administration guides, and deliver knowledge transfer.
Required Skills - Strong enterprise experience with Veeam Backup & Replication (v12/v13).
- Linux Hardened Repository deployment.
- Veeam ONE.
- Backup, replication, disaster recovery, and recovery testing.
- VMware environments.
- Excellent customer-facing consulting and documentation skills.
Desirable - Azure Local
- Dell PowerStore
- PowerScale
- Fibre Channel SAN
- Veeam Recovery Orchestrator experience