Backup Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Incentive

Medical Coverage (Dental & Vision)

Parental Leaves

Auto & Home Insurance options

Certification & Training Reimbursement

Vacation & Holidays

401K Plan & Performance Bonus

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Louisville, KY is seeking an experienced Senior Backup & Recovery Engineer to manage and optimize enterprise backup platforms including IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Defender Data Protect, Commvault, and Rubrik. You will lead policy design, disaster recovery activities, and automation to reduce manual tasks while ensuring high availability and data integrity.

The role requires deep technical knowledge of backup ecosystems, strong scripting skills (PowerShell,

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise backup and recovery platforms.
• Deep knowledge of IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Defender Data Protect and Rubrik.
• Extensive Commvault experience across core components.
• Strong scripting in PowerShell or Python for automation.

Responsibilities

• Implement, administer, monitor, and support enterprise backup and recovery platforms.
• Own day-to-day service health including incident resolution and capacity forecasting.
• Design protection policies based on data priority and RPO/RTO.
• Coordinate complex restore and disaster recovery activities.
• Develop automation to reduce manual operations and improve reporting.

Skills

IBM Storage Protect

IBM Storage Defender Data Protect

Commvault

Rubrik

VMware backup

PowerShell

Python

REST APIs

Capacity planning

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

CommServe

MediaAgent

ROBO/On-prem clusters

SLA Domains

Live Mount

API integrations

Job description

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Advanced administration and troubleshooting of IBM Storage Protect, including server, storage pool, policy domain, node, schedule, replication, database, log, and disaster recovery management.
• Hands-on expertise with IBM Storage Defender Data Protect, including deployment architecture, policy and SLA configuration, protection groups, recovery workflows, immutable data protection, and cyber-resilience use cases.
• Strong Commvault experience across CommServe, MediaAgent, deduplication database, storage policies, plans, auxiliary copy, replication, reporting, upgrades, and application-aware recovery.
• Strong Rubrik experience with Rubrik Security Cloud and on-premises clusters, SLA Domains, archival, replication, Live Mount, Instant Recovery, role-based access, API integrations, and ransomware recovery readiness.
• Deep knowledge of backup and recovery for VMware vSphere, physical Windows/Linux servers, databases, NAS/file systems, and cloud workloads in Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with immutable storage, air-gapped recovery patterns, encryption, MFA, least privilege, retention locking, clean-room recovery, and recovery validation.
• Proficiency in capacity planning, performance tuning, backup failure analysis, root-cause analysis, platform health checks, patching, upgrades, and migration planning.
• Scripting and automation using PowerShell, Python, shell scripting, REST APIs, or orchestration tools.
• Working knowledge of storage networking, SAN/NAS, object storage, TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, certificates, identity integration, and enterprise monitoring / ITSM tools.
• Ability to define and validate RPO/RTO requirements, produce operational documentation, and support audit, compliance, and disaster recovery exercises.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Implement, administer, monitor, and support enterprise backup and recovery platforms across IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Defender Data Protect, Commvault, and Rubrik.
• Own day-to-day service health, including job monitoring, incident resolution, problem management, capacity forecasting, performance optimization, and platform availability.
• Design protection policies based on application criticality, data classification, recovery objectives, retention requirements, and regulatory obligations.
• Perform backup onboarding, platform migrations, technology refreshes, version upgrades, patching, decommissioning, and workload transitions with minimal business disruption.
• Execute and coordinate complex restore and disaster recovery activities, including application-consistent recovery, point-in-time recovery, bare-metal recovery, VM recovery, database recovery, and mass-recovery scenarios.
• Implement cyber-resilient controls such as immutabi lity, privileged access separation, MFA, encryption, isolated recovery copies, anomaly monitoring, and periodic recovery testing.
• Develop automation to reduce manual operations, standardize provisioning, improve reporting, and accelerate incident response.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, SOPs, runbooks, recovery procedures, configuration baselines, operational dashboards, and knowledge articles.
• Partner with infrastructure, cloud, storage, database, security, application, and business continuity teams to resolve cross-platform issues and improve recoverability.
• Participate in on-call rotation, planned maintenance, major incident response, change reviews, audits, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Support knowledge sharing, technical reviews, and provide clear status updates, risk assessments, and remediation plans to technical and management stakeholders.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Strong operational ownership, prioritization, and decision-making in high-severity production situations.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineers, application owners, security teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, coordinate change windows, drive problem resolution, and work independently in a distributed team.
• Effective mentoring, documentation, stakeholder management, and vendor escalation skills.

Key Words to search in Resume

IBM Storage Protect (TSM), IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Storage Defender Data Protect, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault, CommServe, MediaAgent, Rubrik, Rubrik Security Cloud, SLA Domain, immutable backup, cyber recovery, ransomware recovery, disaster recovery, VMware backup, database backup, NAS backup, cloud backup, RPO, RTO, PowerShell, Python, REST API, capacity planning, restore testing

Salary Range: $70,000- $80,000 a year

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

• Discretionary Annual Incentive.
• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
• Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & amp; Training Reimbursement.
• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

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Location

Louisville, KY

Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Engineer

ID

438596

Skills

IBM Storage

Salary Range

$70,000 - $80,000

Desired Candidate Profile

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE