Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist

Role Overview

Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist at BlackStone eIT.

Role Purpose

Administer and optimize backup and disaster recovery infrastructure to ensure business continuity, manage recovery objectives, and maintain system recoverability across enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

Administration & Monitoring

• Administer backup policies, schedules, repositories, retention and monitoring for approved systems.
• Maintain backup inventories, job reports, exception registers and recovery documentation.
• Investigate failed jobs, perform approved remediation and report unresolved risks and capacity constraints.

Planning & Testing

• Plan and execute restoration tests and maintain evidence of recoverability.
• Support disaster-recovery planning, technical runbooks, failover and failback procedures and simulation exercises.
• Track recovery objectives and dependencies as confirmed by partner service and business owners.

Collaboration & Support

• Coordinate with infrastructure, cloud, database, application, security and business continuity teams.
• Participate in agreed on-call or planned out-of-hours recovery activities.

Qualifications & Experience

• 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 or offline backup and recovery validation.
• VMCE, Commvault certification, BCI or DRI qualification or equivalent preferred.
• Ability to produce auditable reports and step-by-step recovery procedures.