Senior Backup And Disaster Recovery Specialist

Job description / Role

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.