Senior NetBackup & DR Specialist (Cloud)

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

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.