About the Role
Specialized Enterprise Systems (SES) is hiring a Backup Engineer (L2/L3) at a client site in Saudi Arabia. The role is responsible for the administration, monitoring, maintenance, and optimization of enterprise backup and recovery infrastructure within a data center environment. The role ensures the successful protection, retention, recovery, and availability of critical business data while providing advanced technical support, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, monitor, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery platforms to ensure successful and reliable data protection operations
- Perform L2/L3 troubleshooting and root cause analysis for backup failures, restore issues, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure-related incidents
- Configure and manage backup policies, schedules, retention periods, replication, and archive processes in accordance with business and compliance requirements
- Execute and validate backup, restore, and recovery operations for physical servers, virtual machines, databases, applications, and file systems
- Monitor daily backup jobs, investigate exceptions, and ensure compliance with backup success rate and SLA targets
- Implement and support disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity solutions, including backup replication and recovery testing
- Perform regular backup recovery drills and restore validation tests to ensure data recoverability and operational readiness
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in enterprise backup and recovery
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- Willing to relocate to the client site in Saudi Arabia within 2 months
- Standard shifts with 24x7 on-call rotation
Skills and Technologies
- Veritas NetBackup
- Commvault
- Veeam Backup & Replication
- Dell EMC NetWorker
- IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
- Rubrik, Cohesity
- Dell Data Domain
- Oracle RMAN
- Microsoft SQL Server Backup
- VMware vSphere, Hyper-V
- Tape Libraries, Cloud Backup Solutions (Azure, AWS)
Preferred Certifications
Veritas, Commvault, Veeam, Dell EMC, Microsoft
