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To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a
Backup Administrator - IT in Chennai, India.
What a Typical Day Looks Like
- Manage, monitor, and maintain the Veeam Backup & Replication environment, ensuring successful job completion and resolving failures promptly.
- Perform daily health checks of backup infrastructure, storage repositories, proxies, and backup servers.
- Configure, optimize, and troubleshoot backup and replication jobs across physical and virtual environments (VMware / Hyper-V).
- Execute periodic restore tests, including file-level, VM-level, and application-level recoveries to validate DR readiness.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and improve backup job efficiency, retention policies, and storage utilization.
- Collaborate with server, storage, virtualization, and network teams to ensure seamless integration of backup workloads.
- Implement and maintain backup policies, schedules, documentation, and security controls.
- Manage offsite backups, cloud repository sync, and replication to DR sites.
- Provide support during incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
- Participate in periodic audits, compliance reviews, and capacity planning activities.
- Automate backup tasks where possible using PowerShell or REST APIs.
- Stay updated with Veeam features, patches, and best practices; apply updates and upgrades when required.
The Experience We're Looking to Add to Our Team
- 3 to 7 years of hands-on experience administering Veeam Backup & Replication in medium to large IT environments.
- Strong understanding of backup concepts, retention policies, GFS, immutable backups, replication, SureBackup, and Instant Recovery.
- Experience working with VMware vSphere and/or Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
- Knowledge of storage technologies (SAN, NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel) and repository management.
- Experience with Windows Server, Active Directory, and Linux-based backup repositories.
- Familiarity with cloud backup integrations (Azure, AWS, S3-compatible storage) is a plus.
- Ability to perform file-level, application-aware, and full VM restores.
- Good understanding of network fundamentals as they apply to backup and replication flows.
- Hands-on experience with PowerShell scripting for automation (nice-to-have).
- Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to respond to production incidents under pressure.
- Excellent documentation practices and communication skills.
- Relevant certifications such as Veeam VMCE, VMware VCP, Microsoft MCSA/MCSE are an added advantage.
What you'll receive for the great work you provide:
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