Backup Recovery Engineer

POSITION OVERVIEW   

The Backup & Recovery Engineer plays a critical role in safeguarding the performance and integrity of enterprise environments. This position is responsible for architecting, administering, monitoring, and continuously optimizing enterprise-grade backup, replication, and disaster recovery (DR) solutions across hybrid cloud and on-prem deployments.

This hands-on role requires experience with enterprise platforms such as Commvault, Veeam, Veritas NetBackup, and Quest Rapid Recovery—a leading solution known for its application-aware snapshots, near-instant recovery, and seamless cloud integration.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Backup Infrastructure Design & Deployment

• Architect and implement enterprise backup solutions using tools like Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, and Quest Rapid Recovery
• Leverage Quest Rapid Recovery's Rapid Snap for Applications to create incremental-forever snapshots of mission-critical workloads (Windows/Linux), capturing full application states every five minutes
• Configure backup targets across D2D, D2T, SAN/NAS, and cloud tiers

Operational Monitoring & Incident Response

• Establish and refine monitoring/alerting protocols for backup jobs, replication tasks, and DR status
• Use tools like Quest’s Verified Recovery to perform automated integrity checks and ensure restorable snapshots
• Troubleshoot failures, bottlenecks, and restore issues in real-time

Disaster Recovery Architecture

• Collaborate on DR strategy and develop automated runbooks
• Utilize Rapid Recovery’s Live Recovery and Virtual Standby features to ensure near-zero downtime and quick failover of workloads to VMs in the event of outages
• Conduct regular DR simulations across VMware, Hyper-V, and physical platforms

Data Integrity & Compliance

• Enforce retention schedules, legal holds, and encryption strategies in compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and other frameworks
• Leverage Universal Recovery in Quest to restore everything from single files to entire systems—even to dissimilar hardware

Storage Optimization

• Analyze usage trends and adjust de-duplication/compression policies in platforms like Rapid Recovery to maximize storage efficiency (up to 95% savings)
• Plan capacity across on-prem and cloud (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)

Automation & Scripting

• Use PowerShell, Bash, or Python to automate tasks, integrate with tools like ServiceNow, Zabbix, or Splunk, and streamline backup operations

Documentation & Knowledge Management

• Maintain thorough documentation of backup designs, DR plans, configuration files, and recovery procedures
• Contribute to SOP libraries and internal knowledge bases

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3–5+ years in enterprise environments with backup/recovery systems across Windows/Linux workloads
• Hands-on with at least one enterprise B&R suite (Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, Rubrik, Quest Rapid Recovery)
• Experience with vSphere/Hyper-V, plus integration with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Working knowledge of NAS/SAN (NFS, SMB, iSCSI), cloud object storage (S3), and networking performance considerations
• Proficiency in PowerShell or similar; bonus for experience scripting DR tests or backup APIs

PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS

• Commvault Certified Professional or Engineer
• Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE)
• Quest Rapid Recovery training/certification (preferred but not required)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Backup and Site Recovery
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

SOFT SKILLS & WORK STYLE 

• Meticulous, methodical, and obsessed with operational excellence
• Big-picture thinker who engineers systems for redundancy and recovery
• Cool-headed under pressure, especially in SLA-bound environments
• Strong communicator and a natural documentarian—you leave systems better than you found them