Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist

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.