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Job Title: Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Engineer

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Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Engineer to lead the planning, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of enterprise backup solutions, disaster recovery systems, and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). The ideal candidate will have strong technical expertise along with the ability to architect resilient data protection strategies aligned with business continuity goals.


Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
  • Lead disaster recovery planning, execution, and periodic DR drills.
  • Administer and troubleshoot backup tools and technologies such as Veritas, Veeam, Commvault, Networker, etc.
  • Manage HCI solutions (Nutanix, VMware vSAN, Hyper-V S2D, etc.) including deployment, configuration, patching, and lifecycle management.
  • Ensure RPO/RTO compliance and optimize backup performance and storage utilization.
  • Implement data retention, archival policies, and off-site/cloud data protection.
  • Monitor backup job health, restore operations, and conduct root cause analysis for failures.
  • Develop documentation including DR runbooks, architecture diagrams, SOPs, and compliance reports.
  • Support audits, security standards, and data protection governance (ISO, ITIL compliance preferred).
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support infrastructure projects and migrations.


Required Skills & Experience

  • Strong hands-on experience in enterprise backup & recovery solutions (at least one major tool mandatory).
  • Experience in disaster recovery strategy design and execution.
  • Good understanding of hyper-converged systems (preferably Nutanix or VMware vSAN).
  • Knowledge of storage technologies: SAN, NAS, RAID, snapshots, replication.
  • Familiarity with virtualization platforms: VMware, Hyper-V.
  • Working experience with cloud backup solutions (Azure/AWS) is a plus.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
  • ITIL certification preferred; industry certifications in backup/storage technologies are a plus.


Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
  • Relevant certifications (Veeam VMCE, Commvault, Nutanix NCP, VMware VCP, etc.) preferred.


Soft Skills

  • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
  • Proactive problem-solving and ability to work under pressure.
  • Strong ownership mindset and customer-centric approach.

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