Responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining data backup and recovery solutions both on-premise and in the cloud. This role ensures data integrity, availability, and recoverability in alignment with business continuity and disaster recovery strategies.
Key Responsibilities:
Supports the backup environment by taking primary on-call responsibility and following up on correcting backup errors. Creates new backups as needed and ensures Operations schedules are accurate and up to date. Provides training to Operations staff in backup and policy.
Identifies and designs solutions to meet backup and restore requirements.
Maintains backup performance by troubleshooting issues, keeping abreast of technical innovations, and providing recommendations to take advantage of new technologies, as appropriate for the Data Center.
Performs periodic restore and recovery tests.
Manage backup infrastructure including media servers, storage devices, appliances, and cloud-based backup resources.
Maintain documentation of backup configurations, procedures, and recovery runbooks.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
High School Degree or equivalent is required, and a Bachelor's Degree in the field of Computer Science or a related field is preferred
Experience
10 years of previous experience in Enterprise IT Backup and recovery operation is required.
Strong knowledge of storage systems, virtualization (VMware) and cloud computing (AWS, Azure) is preferred
Experience backing up Linux, Windows, SQL, Oracle and other critical business data is preferred
Hands-on experience with enterprise backups software (e.g., Veritas Netbackup, Cohesity, Veeam, Commvault...etc) is preferred