Senior Backup Administrator

TEEMA Group; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TEEMA Group in Toronto, Ontario seeks a Senior Backup Administrator to manage enterprise backup platforms, schedules, storage targets, and retention configurations. You will monitor jobs, diagnose failures, and perform recoveries across Windows, Linux, virtualization, and databases.

The role requires designing robust backup procedures, DR planning, and participating in audits. You will mentor junior staff, optimize automation, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure data protection

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years hands-on experience administering enterprise backup and recovery platforms.
• Strong experience with backup technologies such as Veritas NetBackup, NBU Flex Appliance, CommVault, Veeam, Rubrik, NinjaOne, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting Windows, Linux, virtualization platforms, enterprise storage, and database backup integrations.
• Proven ability to design optimal database backup strategies aligned with RPO, RTO, and compliance requirements.
• Knowledge of retention policies, disaster recovery concepts, and data protection best practices.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain enterprise backup platforms, schedules, storage targets, and retention configurations.
• Monitor daily backup jobs, investigate failures, and drive remediation.
• Perform file-level, server-level, VM, database, and application recoveries as needed.
• Design backup and recovery procedures to meet business continuity and DR requirements.
• Coordinate with multiple IT teams to resolve backup incidents and service requests.
• Automate routine tasks using scripting or orchestration tools; contribute to runbooks and SOPs.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior backup or infrastructure staff.

Skills

Backup administration

Veritas NetBackup

NBU Flex Appliance

CommVault

Veeam

Rubrik

NinjaOne

Windows

Linux

Virtualization

Database backup

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology / Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

Veritas NetBackup

NBU Flex Appliance

CommVault

Veeam

Rubrik

NinjaOne

Job description

Job Title: Senior Backup Administrator

Job ID:90664

Location: Toronto, Ontario

What you will be doing:

• You will administer and maintain enterprise backup platforms, policies, schedules, storage targets, and retention configurations.
• Monitor daily backup jobs, investigate failures, perform root cause analysis, and drive timely remediation.
• Perform file-level, server-level, virtual machine, database, and application recovery activities as required.
• Design and validate backup and recovery procedures to meet defined business continuity, disaster recovery, RPO, and RTO requirements.
• Support regular restore testing, disaster recovery exercises, and evidence collection for audit and compliance purposes.
• Manage backup capacity, deduplication, storage utilization, replication, archiving, and lifecycle management.
• Implement and maintain secure backup practices, including access control, encryption, immutability, and ransomware-resilient recovery approaches.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, knowledge base articles, technical diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, database, application, security, network, and vendor teams to resolve backup-related incidents and service requests.
• Participate in change management, incident management, problem management, and on-call support rotations as required.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive backup administration tasks using scripting, orchestration tools and API integration.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior backup or infrastructure administrators.

What you must have:

• You must have a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5-8 or more years of hands‑on experience administering enterprise backup and recovery platforms.
• Strong experience with backup technologies such as Veritas NetBackup, NBU Flex Appliance, CommVault, Veeam, Rubrik, NinjaOne, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting Windows, Linux, virtualization platforms, enterprise storage, and database backup integrations.
• Proven ability to design optimal database backup strategies, including backup frequency, retention, recovery models, and validation approaches aligned with business RPO, RTO, compliance, and resiliency requirements.
• Good understanding of backup methodologies, retention policies, disaster recovery concepts, and data protection best practices.
• Experience troubleshooting backup failures, storage issues, network connectivity, performance bottlenecks, and restore problems.
• Familiarity with IT service management processes, including incident, change, and problem management.
• Strong documentation, communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.

Salary/Rate Range: CAD $80,000 to CAD $130,000