Data Protection Analyst

Elabs Infotech; Hyderabad, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Elabs Infotech is seeking a Data Protection & Cloud SME with strong expertise in enterprise backup, disaster recovery, storage protection, and cloud-tiering strategies. The candidate will assess backup resilience, retention, immutability, recovery readiness, and recommend improvements across on-premises and cloud environments.

The role involves designing and managing backup/DR solutions across AWS, GCP, and OCI, defining RPO/RTO, and driving cyber-resilience initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data protection and cloud solutions.
• Experience with enterprise backup, DR, retention policies and on-prem/cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage enterprise backup, archive, DR and data-protection solutions.
• Review retention policies, backup copies, immutability, WORM, air-gap and restore-test evidence.
• Define and validate RPO/RTO and conduct recovery/restore testing.
• Identify backup and cyber-resilience gaps and provide evidence-based recommendations.
• Design cloud-tiering and object-storage strategies across AWS, GCP and OCI.
• Work with hot/cold/archive tiers and optimize egress and data-retrieval costs.
• Support ransomware recovery and isolated/cyber-recovery initiatives.
• Manage backup lifecycle, licensing, renewals, tool overlap and capacity/BOM sizing.
• Contribute to automation, intelligent tiering and policy-driven data placement.
• Define data-protection standards, governance and operational best practices.

Skills

Enterprise backup

Disaster recovery

Storage protection

Cloud-tiering

RPO/RTO

Immutability

WORM

Air-gap

Cyber resilience

Tools

AWS

GCP

OCI

Job description

Experience: 8+ Years

Location: PAN India

Shift: 2nd Shift / 247

Looking for immediate Joiners Only, Full-time for one of our Client.

We are looking for a Data Protection & Cloud SME with strong expertise in enterprise backup, disaster recovery, storage protection, and cloud-tiering strategies. The candidate will assess backup resilience, retention, immutability, recovery readiness, and recommend improvements across on-premises and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and manage enterprise backup, archive, DR and data-protection solutions.
• Review retention policies, backup copies, immutability, WORM, air-gap and restore-test evidence.
• Define and validate RPO/RTO and conduct recovery/restore testing.
• Identify backup and cyber-resilience gaps and provide evidence-based recommendations.
• Design cloud-tiering and object-storage strategies across AWS, GCP and OCI.
• Work with hot/cold/archive tiers and optimize egress and data-retrieval costs.
• Support ransomware recovery and isolated/cyber-recovery initiatives.
• Manage backup lifecycle, licensing, renewals, tool overlap and capacity/BOM sizing.
• Contribute to automation, intelligent tiering and policy-driven data placement.
• Define data-protection standards, governance and operational best practices.