Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist

Blackstone eIT; Al Ain; On-site; AED 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackstone eIT in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced Disaster Recovery/Backup Specialist to administer and optimize enterprise backup strategies for approved systems in the region. You will manage policies, schedules, retention, and monitoring to ensure recoverability.

You will investigate failed jobs, execute restorations, support DR planning, runbooks, and participate in out-of-hours recovery activities. Strong hands-on with Veeam or Commvault and certifications are preferred.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of enterprise backup and disaster-recovery experience.
• Hands-on with Veeam or Commvault or an equivalent platform.
• Understanding of RPO, RTO, retention, immutable/offline backup and recovery validation.
• Certifications like VMCE, Commvault, BCI/DRI preferred.

Responsibilities

• Administer backup policies, schedules, repositories, retention and monitoring for approved systems.
• Investigate failed jobs, perform 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

Veeam

Commvault

RPO/RTO

Recovery planning

Tools

Veeam

Commvault

BCP/DR tools

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.