Backup Administrator

The role involves managing the organization’s backup, recovery, and disaster recovery systems to ensure business data is protected, recoverable, and compliant with relevant standards. The ideal candidate will oversee backup operations across various environments, coordinate with technical teams, and maintain robust recovery processes to support business continuity.

Key Responsibilities

Backup Operations: Configure, schedule, and monitor daily, weekly, and monthly backup jobs across physical servers, virtual environments such as VMware and Hyper-V, and cloud platforms.

Database and Application Backups: Collaborate with database administrators and application teams to manage backups for systems including SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, Exchange, and Microsoft 365.

Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Review backup reports and alerts on a daily basis, investigate any failed jobs, and resolve root causes to maintain backup integrity.

Storage and Media Management: Oversee backup storage solutions including disk storage, deduplication appliances, tape libraries, and object storage. Manage capacity planning, tape rotation, and offsite vaulting processes.

Security: Implement security measures such as immutable or air-gapped backups, encryption, and access controls to safeguard data against ransomware and other threats.

Upgrades and Maintenance: Apply patches and perform upgrades on backup software, agents, and hardware appliances to ensure systems remain current and secure.

Documentation and Reporting: Maintain comprehensive documentation of backup procedures and generate regular reports on backup status and health.

Collaboration: Work closely with system, network, storage, and security teams to support change management and incident response processes.

Recovery: Execute file, virtual machine, database, and full system restores as requested or during incidents, adhering to defined Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).

Disaster Recovery (DR): Maintain disaster recovery plans, replicate data to secondary sites or cloud environments, and conduct regular DR drills and restore tests to validate readiness.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 2 to 3 years of experience in system or backup administration.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise backup tools such as Cohesity, NetBackup, Acronis, Veeam, and Veritas Backup Exec.
- Proficiency in Windows Server and Linux administration, including Active Directory.
- Experience with virtualization platforms like VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
- Familiarity with storage technologies including SAN/NAS, deduplication, snapshots, and tape libraries (LTO).
- Understanding of cloud backup solutions such as AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365 backup.
- Basic networking knowledge covering TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, and bandwidth planning.
- Solid understanding of RTO, RPO, and disaster recovery concepts.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.

Experience

- Minimum of 2 years as a Backup Administrator is required.

Work Location

This position requires in-person attendance at the designated work site.

Candidates will be asked to provide their current and expected salary during the application process.