Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist

About the role

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

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