IT Backup Administrator

IT Backup Administrator – Yas

Key Qualifications & Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 3–5 years of hands-on experience administering enterprise backup solutions.
• Certifications (Advantage): Professional certifications in backup technologies or storage management are an added advantage.

Core Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, administer, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
• Schedule, initiate, monitor, and verify successful completion of backup jobs.
• Perform on-demand backups for servers, databases, virtual machines, applications, and file systems.
• Monitor auxiliary copy jobs and verify successful replication to tape media.
• Install, configure, and upgrade backup agents (e.g., Commvault) on new servers and clients as required.
• Move backup tapes to secure vault storage/location according to retention schedules.
• Perform restoration of files, databases, virtual machines, operating systems, and applications upon approved requests.
• Ensure organizational readiness for disaster recovery scenarios.
• Generate and distribute daily, weekly, and monthly backup reports.
• Ensure backup systems comply with organizational security policies.
• Implement backup encryption and secure data transmission.

Core Competencies

• Technical knowledge of Enterprise backup solutions such as Commvault Simpana, Rubrik, Windows Server Administration, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, etc.
• Excellent troubleshooting abilities.
• Team player and high level of integrity.

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