Storage and Backup Engineer - Day Shift

Gemological Institute of America; Mumbai; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Gemological Institute of America in Mumbai seeks a Storage and Backup Engineer to safeguard data across on-premises and cloud environments. You will manage Rubrik, Veeam, NetBackup, and tape, ensuring recoverability and DR readiness.

You will administer SAN/NAS storage, VMware/Nutanix workloads, and AWS backups (S3/Glacier) with immutability and cross-region replication, while reporting to IT leadership and coordinating DR tests.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, engineering or related field is required.
• 7+ years in systems engineering, storage administration or data protection with production backup experience.
• Hands-on with at least two enterprise data protection platforms among Rubrik, Veeam, NetBackup.
• Experience with enterprise SAN/NAS storage provisioning, snapshots, replication and capacity management.
• VMware or Nutanix, Windows and Linux workloads, and database backups (SQL Server or Oracle).
• Experience with tape infrastructures (libraries, media management, offsite rotation).
• Ability to perform restores across files, VMs, databases and apps; test restoration programs.
• Maintain RTO/RPO per policy; escalate shortfalls.
• Participation in disaster recovery drills (failover/failback).
• Produce recurring backup/recovery/capacity/compliance reports.
• AWS backup/archival (S3/Glacier), immutability (Object Lock/Vault Lock) and cross-region copies.
• IAM/KMS encryption for backup access/recovery; Rubrik Cloud replication.
• Experience protecting AWS-native workloads (EBS/EC2/RDS/EFS/FSx).
• Cloud recovery strategies, cost awareness, and cross-account currency.
• Shift-based operations with proper handover; strong documentation.

Responsibilities

• Administer on-prem backup estate (Rubrik, Veeam, NetBackup) with policies, protection groups, and SLA domains.
• Monitor and troubleshoot backup/replication, remediating root causes.
• Maintain immutable, air-gapped copies for ransomware resilience.
• Keep platform up-to-date with upgrades and vendor support.
• Ensure every workload has adequate policy coverage and onboarding.
• Run restoration tests with service owners and document findings.
• Contribute to DR drills with failover/failback validation.
• Produce regular backup, recovery, capacity and compliance reports.
• Administer AWS backup/archival (S3/Glacier), immutability, and cross-region copies.
• Manage cloud protection costs and egress, and cloud-native backups (EBS, EC2, RDS, EFS/FSx).

Skills

Scripting proficiency

English proficiency

Disaster recovery planning

Shift-based collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Rubrik

Veeam

NetBackup

Tape infrastructure

SAN

NAS

VMware

Nutanix

AWS Backup

S3

Glacier

IAM

KMS

Rubrik Cloud

EBS

EC2

RDS

EFS/FSx

S3 Object Lock

Job description

The Storage and Backup Engineer is responsible for the protection and recoverability of data across on-premises and cloud environments, and for the storage and compute platforms that hold it. The role manages the data protection estate: on premises this covers Rubrik, Veeam, NetBackup and tape; in cloud it covers backup and archive to Amazon Web Services and replication from the primary Rubrik clusters to Rubrik Cloud. The engineer is accountable for backup success, restore performance and the disaster recovery capability that depends on them, and administers enterprise SAN and NAS storage and the supporting compute and virtualization platforms for capacity, provisioning, replication and protection, working alongside the platform engineers who own the wider infrastructure design.Hands-on capability across both estates is essential. Backup jobs run to AWS and to Rubrik Cloud alongside the primary on-premises Rubrik platform, so the role requires practical command of AWS storage and backup services, S3 storage classes and lifecycle policy, Object Lock and immutability, IAM and KMS as they apply to backup access and encryption, cross-region and cross-account copies, and the connectivity and egress cost consequences of protecting and recovering data in cloud.The role is accountable for adherence to the set recovery time and recovery point objectives. It maintains the per-workload RTO and RPO position, escalates where the achievable position falls short of the stated requirement, and participates actively in disaster recovery drills including failover, failback and the remediation of findings. It runs a defined cadence of restoration tests across every workload type in close coordination with the infrastructure teams and the respective service and application owners, so that recoverability is demonstrated by test rather than assumed from a backup job that reports success.Reporting is a standing obligation rather than an occasional exercise. The engineer produces regular backup, restore, restoration-test, capacity and compliance reporting for IT leadership, information security, audit and the service owners whose data is protected. The role operates within a shift-based infrastructure team in Navi Mumbai, reports to the Manager IT Infrastructure for the shift worked, and hands over open work cleanly at shift boundaries. It requires the ability to work independently, document thoroughly and provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers.**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS** (Knowledge & Experience)· Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering or a closely related field, or equivalent professional experience. (Required)· 7+ years of experience in systems engineering, storage administration or data protection, including substantial hands-on responsibility for a production backup estate. (Required)· Demonstrated hands-on administration of at least two enterprise data protection platforms from among Rubrik, Veeam, NetBackup or comparable products, including policy design and failure remediation. (Required)· Demonstrated hands-on administration of enterprise SAN and NAS storage, including volume and LUN provisioning, snapshots, replication and capacity management. (Required)· Demonstrated hands-on experience with compute and virtualization platforms as they relate to protection and recovery, including VMware or Nutanix, Windows and Linux workloads, and database backup interfaces such as SQL Server or Oracle. (Required)· Demonstrated experience with tape infrastructure, including libraries, media management and offsite rotation. (Required)· Demonstrated experience executing restores and recoveries across files, virtual machine, database and application workloads. (Required)· Demonstrated experience operating a scheduled restoration testing program, including test design, execution with service owners, evidence capture and remediation of findings. (Required)· Demonstrated experience maintaining per-workload recovery time and recovery point objectives against a defined organizational standard, including measurement and escalation of shortfalls. (Required)· Demonstrated active participation in disaster recovery drills as an executing engineer, including failover, failback and validation. (Required)· Demonstrated experience producing recurring backup, recovery, capacity and compliance reporting for IT leadership, security or audit. (Required)· Demonstrated hands-on experience using AWS as a backup and archive target, including S3 and Glacier storage classes, bucket and lifecycle policy, versioning, retention and cross-region or cross-account copies. (Required)· Demonstrated hands-on experience with immutability in cloud, including S3 Object Lock or AWS Backup Vault Lock, and with IAM roles, policies and KMS encryption as they apply to backup access and recovery. (Required)· Demonstrated hands-on experience with Rubrik replication and archival to Rubrik Cloud, or with equivalent vendor cloud replication and archive from an on-premises backup platform. (Required)· Demonstrated experience protecting AWS-native workloads, including AWS Backup, EBS and EC2 snapshots, and RDS, EFS or FSx backups. (Required)· Demonstrated experience executing recovery from cloud, including restore from archive tiers with retrieval time and cost understood in advance. (Required)· Experience managing cloud protection cost, including storage class placement, retrieval and egress charges, and removal of orphaned snapshots. (Required)· Experience working within a shift-based infrastructure team, including structured handover of running jobs and open recovery work. (Required)· Scripting proficiency in PowerShell, Python or Bash, with practical use of platform APIs for reporting and bulk administration. (Required)· Professional proficiency in spoken and written English, sufficient to coordinate with global infrastructure and service teams and to communicate with senior stakeholders. (Required)· Certification in a relevant platform such as Rubrik, Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE), NetBackup, or a storage vendor credential from NetApp, Dell, Pure Storage or equivalent. (Preferred)· AWS certification such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator. (Preferred)ITIL 4 Foundation, or equivalent demonstrated knowledge of incident, change and problem practice. (Preferred)**On-Premises Data Protection Platform Administration**· Administer the data protection estate, including Rubrik, Veeam and NetBackup, covering policy configuration, protection groups, SLA domains, job scheduling and agent or connector health.· Administer tape infrastructure, including libraries, drives, media pools, barcode and slot management, and offsite media rotation and vaulting.· Monitor backup and replication job outcomes daily, investigate failures through to root cause, and remediate rather than re-run without diagnosis.· Maintain immutable and air-gapped protection copies for ransomware resilience and verify that immutability is enforced rather than merely configured.· Maintain platform currency, including software and firmware upgrades, and manage vendor cases through to closure.· Ensure every protected workload is covered by an appropriate policy, and identify & onboard workloads that are unprotected, across both the on-premises and cloud estates.**Cloud Data Protection - AWS and Rubrik Cloud**· Administer backup and archive to Amazon Web Services, including S3 and Glacier storage classes, bucket and lifecycle policy, versioning, retention and expiry, and transition rules between tiers.· Configure and maintain immutability in cloud, including S3 Object Lock and AWS Backup Vault Lock, and verify that WORM retention is enforced rather than merely configured.· Administer AWS-native protection where used, including AWS Backup, EBS and EC2 snapshots, RDS snapshots and EFS or FSx backups,