Backup Administrator

Job Description:

Backup Administrator

About the Role

Everpure is seeking a Backup Administrator to operate, secure, and continuously improve enterprise backup and recovery services across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and identity environments. This role helps ensure critical systems and data can be restored within approved recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs).

The Backup Administrator will manage backup platforms such as Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, Cohesity, or similar technologies, monitor job health, troubleshoot failures, execute restore activities, and maintain evidence supporting operational resilience, security, and audit requirements.

What You’ll Be Doing

· Manage enterprise backup platforms, policies, schedules, repositories, and storage targets.

· Monitor job health, investigate failures, and resolve capacity issues or policy drift.

· Execute and document file, system, application, and disaster recovery restores.

· Verify restored data aligns with target RPO and RTO standards.

· Implement security controls, including encryption, immutability, least-privilege access, and isolated credentials.

· Maintain workload records, ownership details, recovery metrics, and procedures to support coverage reviews.

· Maintain runbooks, standard operating procedures, architecture docs, and recovery evidence.

· Collaborate across infrastructure, security, resiliency, and audit teams to improve recovery readiness.

· Support upgrades, platform integrations, capacity planning, and automation.

· Escalate suspicious administrative actions, retention changes, and security events to Security Operations.

· Participate in recovery testing and implement corrective and preventive measures.

· Diagnose and resolve backup/restore incidents and service disruptions, coordinating with vendors through to resolution

· System Support Activities

What You Bring to the Team

· Experience administering enterprise backup, storage, infrastructure, or disaster-recovery technologies.

· Hands-on experience with backup scheduling, retention, replication, immutable storage, encryption, monitoring, and restoration.

· Understanding of backup and recovery concepts, including RPO, RTO, retention, recovery sequencing, and restore validation.

· Familiarity with on-premises, cloud, virtualized, database, SaaS, and identity-system backup considerations.

· Ability to troubleshoot failed backup jobs and analyze logs, alerts, and platform telemetry.

· Knowledge of access control, privileged access management, multi-factor authentication, and separation of duties.

· Experience creating clear runbooks, standard operating procedures, and audit-ready evidence.

· Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

· Scripting or automation experience using tools such as PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, or vendor automation frameworks is a plus.

· Relevant certifications in backup, storage, cloud, systems administration, or security are a plus, including but not limited to Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault and Cohesity.

Success in This Role

Success means reliable backup coverage, timely remediation of failures, tested restoration procedures, secure administrative practices, and clear evidence that critical Everpure workloads can be recovered when needed.