Backup Administrator

Trilyon, Inc.; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Trilyon, Inc. is seeking a Backup & Resiliency Engineer to manage enterprise backup platforms, policies, and storage targets. You will monitor job health, perform restores, and ensure recoveries meet RPO/RTO targets, while implementing encryption, immutability, and least-privilege access.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, security, and audit teams to improve recovery readiness. Ideal candidates have hands-on backup, storage, and DR experience, with scripting skills and relevant

Qualifications

• Experience administering enterprise backup, storage, infrastructure, or disaster-recovery technologies.
• Hands-on backup scheduling, retention, replication, immutable storage, encryption, monitoring, and restoration.
• Understanding of RPO, RTO, retention, recovery sequencing, and restore validation.
• Familiarity with on-premises, cloud, virtualized, database, SaaS, and identity-system backup considerations.
• Ability to troubleshoot failed backup jobs and analyze logs, alerts, and platform telemetry.
• Knowledge of access control, privileged access management, multi-factor authentication, and separation of duties.
• Experience creating clear runbooks, standard operating procedures, and audit-ready evidence.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Scripting or automation experience using tools such as PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, or vendor automation frameworks is a plus.
• Relevant certifications in backup, storage, cloud, systems administration, or security are a plus, including but not limited to Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault and Cohesity.

Responsibilities

• Manage enterprise backup platforms, policies, schedules, repositories, and storage targets.
• Monitor job health, investigate failures, and resolve capacity issues or policy drift.
• Execute and document file, system, application, and disaster recovery restores.
• Verify restored data aligns with target RPO and RTO standards.
• Implement security controls, including encryption, immutability, least-privilege access, and isolated credentials.
• Maintain workload records, ownership details, recovery metrics, and procedures to support coverage reviews.
• Maintain runbooks, standard operating procedures, architecture docs, and recovery evidence.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, security, resiliency, and audit teams to improve recovery readiness.
• Support upgrades, platform integrations, capacity planning, and automation.
• Escalate suspicious administrative actions, retention changes, and security events to Security Operations.
• Participate in recovery testing and implement corrective and preventive measures.
• Diagnose and resolve backup/restore incidents and service disruptions, coordinating with vendors through to resolution.
• ADD SYSTEM SUPPORT Activities

Skills

Experience administering enterpriseバック

Backup scheduling and retention

RPO/RTO concepts

On-prem/cloud backup considerations

Troubleshooting backup jobs

Access control and MFA

Runbooks and SOPs

Communication with stakeholders

Scripting/automation (PowerShell/Py/RE

Certifications in backup/storage/cloud

Tools

Backup software: Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, Cohesity

Job description

What You’ll Be Doing

• Manage enterprise backup platforms, policies, schedules, repositories, and storage targets.
• Monitor job health, investigate failures, and resolve capacity issues or policy drift.
• Execute and document file, system, application, and disaster recovery restores.
• Verify restored data aligns with target RPO and RTO standards.
• Implement security controls, including encryption, immutability, least-privilege access, and isolated credentials.
• Maintain workload records, ownership details, recovery metrics, and procedures to support coverage reviews.
• Maintain runbooks, standard operating procedures, architecture docs, and recovery evidence.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, security, resiliency, and audit teams to improve recovery readiness.
• Support upgrades, platform integrations, capacity planning, and automation.
• Escalate suspicious administrative actions, retention changes, and security events to Security Operations.
• Participate in recovery testing and implement corrective and preventive measures.
• Diagnose and resolve backup/restore incidents and service disruptions, coordinating with vendors through to resolution.
• ADD SYSTEM SUPPORT Activities

What You Bring to the Team

• Experience administering enterprise backup, storage, infrastructure, or disaster-recovery technologies.
• Hands-on experience with backup scheduling, retention, replication, immutable storage, encryption, monitoring, and restoration.
• Understanding of backup and recovery concepts, including RPO, RTO, retention, recovery sequencing, and restore validation.
• Familiarity with on-premises, cloud, virtualized, database, SaaS, and identity-system backup considerations.
• Ability to troubleshoot failed backup jobs and analyze logs, alerts, and platform telemetry.
• Knowledge of access control, privileged access management, multi-factor authentication, and separation of duties.
• Experience creating clear runbooks, standard operating procedures, and audit-ready evidence.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Scripting or automation experience using tools such as PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, or vendor automation frameworks is a plus.
• Relevant certifications in backup, storage, cloud, systems administration, or security are a plus, including but not limited to Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault and Cohesity.