Data Protection Platform Engineer – Backup & DR Specialist

cba; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work locations

Job summary

CommBank is seeking a Data Protection & Storage Staff Platform Engineer to manage and scale our enterprise backup and recovery infrastructure across hybrid Sydney environments. You will administer Commvault, monitor health and performance, and lead root cause analyses of backup issues while mentoring junior engineers.

You will ensure data retention policies are followed, document configurations and DR plans, and design robust disaster recovery strategies.

Qualifications

• Expert-level hands-on experience with Commvault, DataDomain, Networker, CommServe, Media Agents, and client configurations.
• Strong understanding of backup policies, deduplication, catalogue management, and storage targets (ECS, Pure, PMAX, Netapp).
• Experience with scripting and automation tools (Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, Terraform).
• Familiarity with monitoring tools and dashboards such as Grafana, Prometheus.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain a Commvault backup and recovery environment across hybrid infrastructure.
• Monitor system health, job performance, and storage utilization proactively.
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution of backup failures, restore issues, and performance bottlenecks.
• Provide support and mentor junior engineers.
• Ensure adherence to data retention and protection policies.
• Maintain detailed documentation for backup configurations, SOPs, and DR plans.
• Design and test disaster recovery strategies.
• Risk mindset and pro-active risk mitigation.
• Automate routine backup tasks using scripting tools (Python, PowerShell, Ansible).
• Participate in capacity planning and architecture reviews.

Skills

Commvault

Backup policies

Python scripting

PowerShell

Ansible

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

AWS

VMware

Data protection

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / CS

Tools

CommServe

Media Agents

DataDomain

NetApp

ECS

Pure

PMAX

Job description

CommBank is seeking a Data Protection & Storage Staff Platform Engineer to manage and scale our enterprise backup and recovery infrastructure across hybrid Sydney environments. You will administer Commvault, monitor health and performance, and lead root cause analyses of backup issues while mentoring junior engineers.

You will ensure data retention policies are followed, document configurations and DR plans, and design robust disaster recovery strategies.