Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist

BlackStone eIT; Nahwa; On-site; AED 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

BlackStone eIT in the United Arab Emirates seeks an experienced backup and disaster-recovery specialist to administer policies, plan restorations, and support DR runbooks. The role requires hands-on with Veeam or Commvault, knowledge of RPO/RTO, and the ability to produce auditable recovery procedures; on-call duties may apply.

Minimum 5 years of enterprise backup and DR experience with certification preferences such as VMCE and BCI/DRI are advantageous.

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.

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 & DR

Veeam

Commvault

RPO/RTO concepts

Education

VMCE certification

BCI/DRI qualification

Commvault certification

Job description

Requirements

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