Backup & Recovery Specialist

Providence India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Providence India is seeking an experienced Backup & Recovery Specialist to manage enterprise-grade backup and recovery across cloud and on-prem environments. You will administer platforms like Azure Native Backup, IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, and Cohesity, ensuring data integrity and recoverability.

Your role emphasizes automation, troubleshooting, and adherence to security and compliance standards, with collaboration across Windows and Linux environments to optimize cost and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Hands-on experience administering enterprise backup and recovery platforms such as Azure Native Backup, IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Cohesity, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong understanding of backup, restore, archive, retention, replication, deduplication, encryption, and storage management concepts.
• Experience supporting backup and recovery services across Windows, Linux, virtualized, database, and application environments.
• Working knowledge of disaster recovery principles, recovery testing, RPO/RTO alignment, and business continuity practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Must-have automation skills in any domain, including scripting, workflow automation, reporting, or process optimization.
• Ability to work independently, collaborate across infrastructure and application teams, and support incident response in a time-sensitive environment.
• Strong communication, documentation, and reporting skills with the ability to present technical information clearly to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and optimize backup and recovery platforms across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Monitor, report, and troubleshoot the backup estate to meet service levels.
• Develop, implement, and manage backup, archive, retention, replication, and recovery policies.
• Support restoration requests, periodic recovery validation, and disaster recovery planning/testing.
• Manage storage pools, devices, deduplication, compression, encryption, replication, and capacity utilization.
• Troubleshoot backup and recovery failures, perform root cause analysis, and drive corrective actions.
• Implement security best practices including encryption, access controls, authentication, and audit-ready documentation.
• Integrate backup platforms with Windows and Linux systems across environments.
• Maintain procedures, technical docs, and executive-ready metrics on backup and compliance.
• Identify automation opportunities to improve reliability and efficiency.

Skills

Automation skills

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Documentation

Disaster recovery

Scripting

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Azure Native Backup

IBM Spectrum Protect

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Cohesity

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Backup & Recovery Specialist to support enterprise-scale data protection services across cloud and on-premises environments. This role is responsible for administering, optimizing, and securing backup and recovery platforms including Azure Native Backup, IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, and IBM Defender powered by Cohesity. The ideal candidate will bring strong operational discipline, troubleshooting expertise, automation skills, and a service reliability mindset to ensure backup integrity, recoverability, compliance, and business continuity.

RoleResponsibilities

• Backup Platform Administration: Install, configure, administer, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery platforms, including Azure Native Backup, IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, and IBM Defender/Cohesity.
• Operational Monitoring: Perform daily monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting across the backup estate to maintain agreed service levels and improve backup success rates.
• Policy and Schedule Management: Develop, implement, and manage backup, archive, retention, replication, and recovery policies aligned with business and compliance requirements.
• Recovery and Disaster Readiness: Support restoration requests, conduct periodic recovery validation, and participate in disaster recovery planning and testing to confirm data recoverability and integrity.
• Storage and Performance Optimization: Manage storage pools, volumes, devices, deduplication, compression, encryption, replication, and capacity utilization to optimize cost, performance, and reliability.
• Incident and Problem Management: Troubleshoot backup and recovery failures, perform root cause analysis, resolve technical issues, and drive corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices including encryption, access controls, authentication, certificate management, and audit-ready documentation.
• Integration and Support: Integrate backup platforms with virtualization, operating systems, databases, storage, and application environments across Windows and Linux systems.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain operational procedures, technical documentation, configuration records, and executive-ready metrics covering backup success, recovery readiness, storage consumption, and compliance status.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify automation opportunities, improve operational efficiency, and contribute to service reliability, standardization, and modernization initiatives.
• Automation: Apply scripting or workflow automation to improve reliability, reporting, and operational efficiency.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Hands-on experience administering enterprise backup and recovery platforms such as Azure Native Backup, IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Cohesity, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong understanding of backup, restore, archive, retention, replication, deduplication, encryption, and storage management concepts.
• Experience supporting backup and recovery services across Windows, Linux, virtualized, database, and application environments.
• Working knowledge of disaster recovery principles, recovery testing, RPO/RTO alignment, and business continuity practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Must-have automation skills in any domain, including scripting, workflow automation, reporting, or process optimization.
• Ability to work independently, collaborate across infrastructure and application teams, and support incident response in a time-sensitive environment.
• Strong communication, documentation, and reporting skills with the ability to present technical information clearly to stakeholders.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Cohesity cluster administration, data protection policies, and recovery operations.
• Advanced automation or scripting experience for backup operations, remediation, or service optimization.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Knowledge of virtualization platforms, database backup methods, mail systems, SSL certificates, and security controls.
• Relevant certifications are preferred, including IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Spectrum Protect V8.1.12 or higher, Cohesity Data Protection Associate/Data Security Professional, Microsoft AZ-900, AZ-104, or AI-900.