# Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist — BlackStone eIT

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Location: Al Ain, UAE
Type: full_time · Level: senior
Monthly salary: AED 24,000 to 36,000 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-08-10
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## Description

Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist — BlackStone eIT

Location: Al Ain, UAE

## Requirements

Key Responsibilities • 
Administer backup policies, schedules, repositories, retention and monitoring for approved systems. 
• Investigate failed jobs, perform approved remediation and report unresolved risks and capacity constraints. 
• Plan and execute restoration tests and maintain evidence of recoverability. 
• Support disaster-recovery planning, technical runbooks, failover/failback procedures and simulation exercises.
 • Track recovery objectives and dependencies as confirmed by partner service and business owners. 
• Maintain backup inventories, job reports, exception registers and recovery documentation. 
• Coordinate with infrastructure, cloud, database, application, security and business continuity teams. 
• Participate in agreed on-call or planned out-of-hours recovery activities.

Minimum Experience and Qualifications 
• Minimum 5 years of enterprise backup and disaster-recovery experience. 
• Strong hands-on experience with Veeam, Commvault or an equivalent enterprise backup platform. 
• Practical understanding of RPO, RTO, retention, immutable/offline backup and recovery validation.
 • VMCE, Commvault certification, BCI/DRI qualification or equivalent preferred.
 • Ability to produce auditable reports and step-by-step recovery procedures.

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