Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist

About the role

The Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist will manage backup policies, ensure data recoverability, and support disaster‑recovery planning for enterprise systems.

Key responsibilities

• Administer backup policies, schedules, repositories, retention and monitoring for approved systems.
• Investigate failed jobs, perform remediation and report unresolved risks.
• 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 with partner services 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 on‑call or planned out‑of‑hours recovery activities.

Required profile

• 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.
• Relevant certifications such as VMCE, Commvault, BCI/DRI preferred.
• Ability to produce auditable reports and step‑by‑step recovery procedures.

Required skills

• Veeam
• Commvault
• Enterprise backup platforms
• RPO and RTO concepts
• Immutable/offline backup