Backup Administrator

Great Eastern; Cyberjaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Eastern in Malaysia seeks a Backup and Recovery Specialist to manage and protect critical data across on‑premises and cloud environments, ensuring business continuity.

You will administer NetBackup, monitor daily backups, run recovery drills, implement policies and retention schedules, and collaborate with infrastructure, database, application, and security teams to maintain data integrity and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Professional Degree in IT, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• Willing to support after-hours and on-call rotation.
• Familiar with regulatory compliance and data protection standards.
• Familiar with NetBackup Administration, Data Protection & Recovery, Performance Tuning and Backup Troubleshooting & Incident Management.

Responsibilities

• Administered and managed NetBackup infrastructure, ensuring reliable backup and recovery services across enterprise environments.
• Monitored daily backup operations, generated backup health and compliance reports, proactively resolved job failures, and optimized system performance to ensure operational stability and successful backup completion.
• Conducted regular backup validation, recovery drills, and restoration testing to verify data integrity, recoverability, and service readiness.
• Developed, implemented, and maintained backup policies, retention schedules, and recovery procedures in compliance with regulatory, security, and business requirements.
• Analyzed backup infrastructure performance and capacity trends, recommending and implementing improvements to optimize storage utilization, enhance efficiency, and reduce backup windows.
• Collaborated with infrastructure, database, application, and security teams to ensure comprehensive data protection coverage for mission-critical systems and services.
• Administered and supported cloud-integrated backup solutions, including AWS-based backup services, cloud storage repositories, disaster recovery capabilities, and backup lifecycle management.
• Managed and optimized backup integration across cloud-native services and hybrid-cloud environments, ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient protection of on-premises and cloud workloads.
• Participated in disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution activities to support business continuity and resilience objectives.
• Identified operational risks, evaluated emerging technologies, and recommended strategic improvements to strengthen enterprise backup, recovery, and data protection capabilities.

Skills

NetBackup Administration

Data Protection & Recovery

Performance Tuning

Backup Troubleshooting & Incident Mgmt

Regulatory Compliance

Education

Bachelor’s or Professional Degree in IT/CS

Tools

AWS Backup Services

Cloud storage repositories

Disaster Recovery Planning

Job description

Role holder is responsible to manage, monitor, and maintain backup and recovery systems to safeguard critical business data and ensure business continuity.

• Administered and managed NetBackup infrastructure, ensuring reliable backup and recovery services across enterprise environments.
• Monitored daily backup operations, generated backup health and compliance reports, proactively resolved job failures, and optimized system performance to ensure operational stability and successful backup completion.
• Conducted regular backup validation, recovery drills, and restoration testing to verify data integrity, recoverability, and service readiness.
• Developed, implemented, and maintained backup policies, retention schedules, and recovery procedures in compliance with regulatory, security, and business requirements.
• Analyzed backup infrastructure performance and capacity trends, recommending and implementing improvements to optimize storage utilization, enhance efficiency, and reduce backup windows.
• Collaborated with infrastructure, database, application, and security teams to ensure comprehensive data protection coverage for mission-critical systems and services.
• Administered and supported cloud-integrated backup solutions, including AWS-based backup services, cloud storage repositories, disaster recovery capabilities, and backup lifecycle management.
• Managed and optimized backup integration across cloud-native services and hybrid-cloud environments, ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient protection of on-premises and cloud workloads.
• Participated in disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution activities to support business continuity and resilience objectives.
• Identified operational risks, evaluated emerging technologies, and recommended strategic improvements to strengthen enterprise backup, recovery, and data protection capabilities.

We are looking for people with

• Bachelor’s or Professional Degree in IT, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• Willing to support after-hours and on-call rotation.
• Familiar with regulatory compliance and data protection standards.
• Familiar with NetBackup Administration, Data Protection & Recovery, Performance Tuning and Backup Troubleshooting & Incident Management.

How you succeed

• Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
• Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
• Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
• Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.

Who we are

Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels - a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei.

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of "AA-" by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern’s asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.

Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.