BlackStone eIT
Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist
Dubai, UAEPosted 2 months ago
- Salary
- AED 13,000 – 22,000 a monthMarket estimate
- Job type
- Full time
- Level
- Senior
- Field
- Outsource
- Work mode
- On site
About the role
Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist — BlackStone eIT Location: Dubai, 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.
Responsibilities
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.
Skills
- Veeam
- Commvault
- backup policies
- restoration testing
- disaster recovery planning
- runbooks
- failover and failback procedures
- RPO
- RTO
- retention management
- immutable/offline backup
- recovery validation
- auditable reporting
- capacity planning
- cloud and infrastructure coordination
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