Senior Backup Engineer

Optimum Solutions Pte Ltd; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimum Solutions Pte Ltd in Pune is seeking a senior backup architect to design, implement, and operate comprehensive backup and restore solutions for on-premises data centres and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). You will define RTO/RPO targets, govern retention policies, and lead failover testing and regulatory evidence packages.

The role involves owning incident investigations, drive blameless reviews, and ensuring GDPR and FCA-like compliance across data management and records retention

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise backup architectures across on-prem and cloud
• Ability to define RTO/RPO targets and map them to business services
• Knowledge of data governance, retention, and regulatory requirements (GDPR/COBS/SYSC)

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and operate backup/restore solutions across on-prem and cloud environments
• Define, own, and validate RTO/RPO targets per IBS mapping and regulatory framework
• Own backup policy governance: retention, legal holds, data classification, lifecycle rules
• Lead structured restore testing with DR failover and immutability validation for regulatory reviews
• Own backup failure investigations and drive blameless post-incident reviews and risk feedback

Skills

Veeam

Commvault

Cohesity

Rubrik

NetApp Snap Vault

Dell EMC Data Domain

Tape

Terraform

AWS

Azure

GCP

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Pune 8+ years Full-time Veeam, Commvault Cohesity, Rubrik, NetApp Snap Vault, Dell EMC Data Domain, tape, AWS Backup, OPT0270

Job Description

• Architect, implement, and operate backup and restore solutions across on-premises data centres and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP), covering the full range of financial services workloads — core banking systems, trading platforms, payment processing, databases, and unstructured data.
• Define, own, and continuously validate RTO and RPO targets in alignment with Important Business Service (IBS) mapping and impact tolerances as required under the PRA/FCA operational resilience framework.
• Own backup policy governance — retention schedules, legal hold processes, data classification alignment, and lifecycle rules — ensuring consistency with data management and records retention obligations under GDPR and FCA COBS/SYSC requirements.
• Lead a structured restore testing programme including full DR failover Business Service recovery exercises, clean-room scenario based recovery simulations, and immutable backup integrity validation — with evidence packages suitable for regulatory review.
• Own backup failure investigation and resolution end-to‑end, conducting blameless post-incident reviews and feeding findings into the firm’s risk event process.

Mandatory Skills:

• Any one or two Backup technologies (Veeam, Commvault Cohesity, Rubrik, NetApp Snap Vault, Dell EMC Data Domain, tape)
• Experience in Infrastructure Automation with Terraform, cloud any AWS, Azure, and/or GCP,

Interview Mode:

• Interview Mode: Three rounds of virtual interviews conducted via Microsoft Teams.

India - Pune

Founded in 1997, Optimum is a full-spectrum IT services and solutions company whose mission is “Empower Business with Technology.”