Backup Administrator

Job Description

Job Title: Backup Administrator

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Backup Administrator with our client located in Lehi, UT.

Job Description:

• 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.
  
  
  

Job Responsibilities:

• 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.
  
  
  

Job Qualifications:

• 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.
  
  
  

Job Details:

• Job Type: Contract
• Pay Rate: $60-$65/hr.
• Location: Lehi, UT.
  
  
  

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO) and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.