Backup Administrator

Pyramid Consulting, Inc; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 74,000 - 105,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. is seeking an experienced Backup Administrator for a 6+ month contract in Lehi, UT, onsite. The role focuses on enterprise backup platforms, DR testing, restore validation, and security controls.

You will manage schedules, encryption, access controls, and collaborate with infrastructure, security, and audit teams. 5+ years of experience and scripting skills are valued; competitive hourly pay is offered with standard employee benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience administering enterprise backup, storage, infra or DR technologies.
• Experience with backup scheduling, retention, replication, immutable storage and encryption.
• Understanding of RPO, RTO, retention, restore sequencing and recovery validation.
• Familiarity with on-prem, cloud, virtualized, database, SaaS backups and identity systems.

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 and least-privilege access.

Skills

Backup administration

RPO/RTO concepts

Scripting (PowerShell/Python)

Incident investigation

Vendor coordination

Tools

Veeam

Rubrik

Commvault

Cohesity

Job description

Immediate need for a talented Backup Administrator. This is a 06+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Lehi, UT (Onsite).

Job ID:26-34740

Pay Range: $65/hour.

Employee benefits include, but are not limited to,

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• 401(k) plan
• paid sick leave (depending on work location)

Key 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.
• System Support Activities.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• 5+ years of 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.

Our client is a leading IT Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions.

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.