What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backup Administrator position at Trilyon, Inc.?
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
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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.