Backup Administrator

0 years

1 - 6 Lacs

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Job Type

Full Time

Job Description

  • A Backup Administrator designs, implements, manages, and monitors an organization's data backup and recovery systems, ensuring critical data is secure, available, and restorable by scheduling jobs, testing restores, troubleshooting issues, managing backup software (like Veeam, Commvault), maintaining policies, and creating disaster recovery plans to prevent data loss and meet compliance needs.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • System Management: Administering, monitoring, and maintaining backup servers, software, and hardware.
  • Backup Operations: Scheduling and executing daily backups (full, incremental, differential) and ensuring retention policies are met.
  • Disaster Recovery (DR): Developing, documenting, and regularly testing DR plans and conducting drills.
  • Monitoring & Reporting: Reviewing backup status, ensuring job success, generating performance reports, and alerting on failures.
  • Troubleshooting: Promptly resolving backup failures, data corruption, and restore issues.
  • Data Integrity: Verifying data integrity and ensuring secure storage and retrieval.
  • Collaboration: Working with other IT teams (DBAs, storage engineers) and departments to align backup strategies.
  • Policy & Compliance: Ensuring adherence to data protection regulations and internal policies.
  • Optimization: Identifying growth areas, recommending solutions, and migrating systems.
  • Common Skills & Qualifications:
  • Experience: In backup software (Veeam, Commvault), storage (SAN), Windows/Linux environments.
  • Technical Skills: Backup/Restore processes, scripting (PowerShell, Bash), troubleshooting, data security.
  • Soft Skills: Problem-solving, attention to detail, communication, teamwork.
  • Education: Typically a Bachelor's in IT or related field, with relevant experience.
  • Tamil candidates only

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹12,837.99 - ₹56,890.39 per month

Benefits:

  • Food provided

Work Location: In person

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