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Scotiabank

Principle Backup Engineer

Toronto, ON, M5H 4A9, Canada

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Job details

Experience: 8+ years of enterprise backup and recovery engineering experience.
Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 29, 2026

Original job description

Requisition ID: 277575

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Principal Engineer partners with business line representatives and technical teams to drive improved technology solutions that support business strategy with an enterprise view. The Principal Engineer also develops technical roadmaps and strategies, proposals, and is accountable for research and development, and represents the Bank on external industry groups.

Oversees the Storage and/or Backup Engineering Platforms ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, security requirements, internal policies, and procedures.

The incumbent is viewed internally as a Technology Expert with leader facilitation skills and the ability to influence others.

The Principal Engineer is to advise senior technology leaders on platform strategy, technology risk, resiliency posture, investment planning, and emerging industry trends, maintains superior technology skills and knowledge of emerging technological trends across at least a single technology discipline with strong working knowledge of other key technologies.

The incumbent will research, plan, define and support designs in support of the departments mandate. They will proactively work to progress the architecture, and overall design of the Bank’s Information Systems as a corporate asset in supporting the Bank’s business objectives. This includes ensuring technical directions and options consider the customer, constraints and future enhancements in network communication, hardware, system software and development software. The incumbent will also ensure all components will interoperate and provide the infrastructure to support future strategic initiatives.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:
• In conjunction with the other GTEP Engineering and Architecture teams: Develop, Define, design, engineer, and implement hardware and solutions and maintain patterns and standards for On-Premises and Cloud Native Backup Solutions including monitoring and automation.
• Accountable for defining and maintaining the enterprise data protection architecture strategy, standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Define and implement policies, standards and patterns for cyber vaulting, immutable storage, air-gapped recovery by driving an enterprise recovery validation exercises, disaster recovery testing, and recovery assurance programs to ensure business recovery objectives are achievable.
• Define enterprise standards for protection of Kubernetes, OpenShift, cloud-native applications, SaaS platforms, and hybrid cloud workloads.
• Lead cross-disciplinary efforts to research, incubate, test, and perform proof of concepts of new and innovative Technologies and solutions for potential use in the Bank in conjunction with the other GTEP Operations and Engineering teams
• Direct engagement with regional and subsidiaries constituents to provided Engineering direction and input on:
- Prioritized initiatives
- Infrastructure patterns, principals, frameworks, and standards to align with globally approved offerings
- Approach, including when standard does not exist today (leads to interaction with business and Architecture Teams)
- Participate in regional Backup Design Councils and the GTEP Architectural Review Board
• Research and partner with vendors and management to select products that best meet Scotiabank needs, lead product lifecycle planning including technology evaluations, roadmap development, vendor strategy, platform consolidation, and technology refresh initiatives.
• Work with the GTEP teams to capture and document standards, infrastructure patterns, principals, and frameworks in a consistent and clear format.
• Provide highest-level technical escalation support for complex incidents, major outages, and critical platform issues supporting operations teams.
• Drive platform reliability, resiliency, automation, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Ensure all changes to systems are recorded and properly executed with approval (Change Management)
• Review the performance of systems and plan for technological refresh and cater for future expansion (Capacity Management)
• Responsible for managed platforms capacity planning activities in partnership with Operations and LoBs.
• Ensure platforms meet:
- Business growth demands
- Performance requirements
- Cost optimization targets
• Align forecasts with investment planning and infrastructure strategy
• Ensure platforms evolve to support:
New capabilities
- Security enhancements
- Automation-first operations
• Translate business needs into engineering deliverables and platform roadmaps.
• Drive automation of manual, repetitive, and operationally intensive tasks, including:
- Configuration drift detection
- Provisioning workflows
- Monitoring and remediation actions
• Improve efficiency, reduce operational risk, and enable scale and consistency
• Act as the final engineering authority for backup platform architecture decisions, standards exceptions, and technology selection recommendations.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:
• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of enterprise backup and recovery engineering experience.
• 5+ years designing large-scale backup and data-protection architectures.
• Advanced hands-on experience with IBM Storage Protect, Cohesity, NetBackup and Veeam
• Proven experience with immutability, replication, retention, cyber recovery, disaster recovery, and recovery testing.
• Experience protecting physical, virtual, database, cloud, and container workloads.
• Strong knowledge of SAN, NAS, NFS, SMB, S3, and iSCSI technologies.
• Experience with PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, and REST API automation.
• Experience defining engineering standards, architecture patterns, and technology roadmaps.
• Experience in highly regulated enterprise environments preferred.

What's in it for you?
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Responsibilities

The Principal Engineer oversees enterprise backup and storage platforms while defining architecture strategies for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. They act as the final engineering authority for backup platform decisions and drive automation, resiliency, and operational excellence across the organization.

Requirements

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree and over 8 years of enterprise backup and recovery engineering experience. Proficiency in large-scale data protection architectures, automation tools, and specific backup software like IBM Storage Protect, Cohesity, NetBackup, or Veeam is required.

Skills

Backup and recovery engineering
Data protection architecture
IBM Storage Protect
Cohesity
NetBackup
Veeam
Immutability
Disaster recovery
Kubernetes
OpenShift
PowerShell
Python
Ansible
Terraform
REST API
Cloud-native applications

Benefits

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship
Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations
Upskilling
Tuition assistance
Competitive rewards program
Bonus
Flexible vacation
Personal days
Sick days
Community engagement programs

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Keywords

Backup Engineering
Data Protection
IBM Storage Protect
Cohesity
NetBackup
Veeam
Kubernetes
OpenShift
Cloud-native
PowerShell
Python
Ansible
Terraform
REST API
Disaster Recovery
Cyber Vaulting
Immutable Storage
SAN
NAS
NFS
SMB
S3
iSCSI
Automation
Infrastructure
Architecture
Capacity Management
Change Management
Resiliency
Hybrid Cloud

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