Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist

BlackStone eIT; Al Ain; On-site; AED 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

BlackStone eIT is seeking a Disaster Recovery specialist in the UAE to administer backup policies, schedules, repositories, and retention for approved systems. The role involves coordinating with infrastructure, cloud, database, application, and security teams to ensure DR readiness.

You will plan restoration tests, support DR planning and runbooks, and monitor recovery objectives, reporting auditable outcomes and risks.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of enterprise backup and disaster-recovery experience.
• Practical understanding of RPO, RTO, retention, immutable/offline backup and recovery validation.

Responsibilities

• Administer backup policies, schedules, repositories, retention and monitoring for approved systems.
• Investigate failed jobs, perform approved remediation and report unresolved risks and capacity constraints.
• Plan and execute restoration tests and maintain evidence of recoverability.
• Support disaster-recovery planning, technical runbooks, failover/failback procedures and simulation exercises.
• Track recovery objectives and dependencies as confirmed by partner service and business owners.
• Maintain backup inventories, job reports, exception registers and recovery documentation.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, cloud, database, application, security and business continuity teams.
• Participate in agreed on-call or planned out-of-hours recovery activities.

Skills

Backup administration

DR planning

Auditable reporting

Incident handling

Education

VMCE certification

Commvault certification

BCI/DRI qualification

Tools

Veeam

Commvault

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Administer backup policies, schedules, repositories, retention and monitoring for approved systems.


• Investigate failed jobs, perform approved remediation and report unresolved risks and capacity constraints.


• Plan and execute restoration tests and maintain evidence of recoverability.


• Support disaster-recovery planning, technical runbooks, failover/failback procedures and simulation exercises.


• Track recovery objectives and dependencies as confirmed by partner service and business owners.


• Maintain backup inventories, job reports, exception registers and recovery documentation.


• Coordinate with infrastructure, cloud, database, application, security and business continuity teams.


• Participate in agreed on-call or planned out-of-hours recovery activities.

Minimum Experience and Qualifications

• 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/offline backup and recovery validation.


• VMCE, Commvault certification, BCI/DRI qualification or equivalent preferred.


• Ability to produce auditable reports and step-by-step recovery procedures.