Enterprise Backup & Recovery Specialist (Contract)

Protingent; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

HDHP/POS insurance

Education/certification reimbursement

Pre-tax commuter benefits

PTO

401k plan

Job summary

Protingent is seeking a Backup Administrator in Lehi, UT to operate, secure, and improve enterprise backup and recovery services across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and identity environments.

You will manage backup platforms (Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, Cohesity) and ensure restores meet RPO/RTO targets while enforcing security controls and audit-ready evidence. Contract role with competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• 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 RPO/RTO, retention, sequencing, and restore validation.
• Familiarity with on-premises and cloud backup considerations across environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot failed backup jobs and analyze logs, alerts, and telemetry.
• Knowledge of access control, privileged access management, MFA, and separation of duties.
• Experience creating runbooks and audit-ready evidence.
• Strong communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Scripting/automation using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, or vendor frameworks is a plus.
• Certifications in backup/storage/cloud or related areas (Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, Cohesity) are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage enterprise backup platforms, policies, schedules, repositories, and storage targets.
• Monitor job health, investigate failures, and resolve capacity issues.
• Execute and document restores for files, systems, apps, and DR tests.
• Verify restored data aligns with RPO/RTO targets.
• Implement security controls including encryption, immutability, and least-privilege access.
• Maintain workload records, recovery metrics, and procedures for coverage reviews.
• Maintain runbooks, SOPs, architecture docs, and recovery evidence.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, security, resiliency, and audit teams to improve readiness.
• Support upgrades, platform integrations, capacity planning, and automation.
• Escalate security events and retention changes to Security Operations.
• Participate in recovery testing and implement corrective/preventive measures.
• Diagnose backup/restore incidents and coordinate with vendors to resolution.

Skills

Backup platform admin

Retention policies

Replication

RPO RTO concepts

On-prem backup

Troubleshooting logs

Access control MFA

Runbooks SOPs

PowerShell Python

REST APIs

Vendor certifications

Tools

Veeam

Rubrik

Commvault

Cohesity

Job description

Protingent is seeking a Backup Administrator in Lehi, UT to operate, secure, and improve enterprise backup and recovery services across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and identity environments.

You will manage backup platforms (Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, Cohesity) and ensure restores meet RPO/RTO targets while enforcing security controls and audit-ready evidence. Contract role with competitive benefits.