# Backup Engineer (L2/L3) — Specialized Enterprise Systems (SES)

Canonical: https://jobxdubai.com/jobs/li-4475555374-backup-engineer-l2-l3
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Type: full_time · Level: mid
Monthly salary: AED 11,760 to 17,640 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-10-05
Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/backup-engineer-l2-l3-at-specialized-enterprise-systems-ses-4475555374?_l=en

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## Description

About the Role

Specialized Enterprise Systems (SES) is hiring a Backup Engineer (L2/L3) at a client site in Saudi Arabia. The role is responsible for the administration, monitoring, maintenance, and optimization of enterprise backup and recovery infrastructure within a data center environment. The role ensures the successful protection, retention, recovery, and availability of critical business data while providing advanced technical support, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery platforms to ensure successful and reliable data protection operations

• Perform L2/L3 troubleshooting and root cause analysis for backup failures, restore issues, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure-related incidents

• Configure and manage backup policies, schedules, retention periods, replication, and archive processes in accordance with business and compliance requirements

• Execute and validate backup, restore, and recovery operations for physical servers, virtual machines, databases, applications, and file systems

• Monitor daily backup jobs, investigate exceptions, and ensure compliance with backup success rate and SLA targets

• Implement and support disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity solutions, including backup replication and recovery testing

• Perform regular backup recovery drills and restore validation tests to ensure data recoverability and operational readiness

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise backup and recovery

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

• Willing to relocate to the client site in Saudi Arabia within 2 months

• Standard shifts with 24x7 on-call rotation

Skills and Technologies

• Veritas NetBackup

• Commvault

• Veeam Backup & Replication

• Dell EMC NetWorker

• IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)

• Rubrik, Cohesity

• Dell Data Domain

• Oracle RMAN

• Microsoft SQL Server Backup

• VMware vSphere, Hyper-V

• Tape Libraries, Cloud Backup Solutions (Azure, AWS)

Preferred Certifications

Veritas, Commvault, Veeam, Dell EMC, Microsoft

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## Requirements

5+ years of experience in enterprise backup and recovery
Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
Willing to relocate to the client site in Saudi Arabia within 2 months
Standard shifts with 24x7 on-call rotation

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