IT Backup, DR & Storage Administrator

Key Responsibilities

Backup Management

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-wide backup and recovery strategies aligned with business continuity requirements.
• Administer and manage enterprise backup tools and platforms.
• Monitor backup jobs, troubleshoot failures, and ensure compliance with defined retention and recovery policies.

Disaster Recovery (DR)

• Develop, implement, and maintain Disaster Recovery (DR) plans for critical applications and infrastructure.
• Deploy DR solutions using modern, high-availability and replication technologies.
• Conduct regular DR drills and testing exercises; document results to meet audit and compliance requirements.

Storage Administration

• Manage enterprise SAN and NAS environments, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and availability.
• Perform storage capacity planning, provisioning, performance tuning, and lifecycle management.
• Implement storage replication, snapshot, and failover strategies to support high availability and data protection.

Compliance & Documentation

• Ensure adherence to data protection and security standards such as ISO 27001 and GDPR.
• Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for backup, recovery, and DR processes.
• Collaborate with security and audit teams to support internal and external compliance reviews.
• Lead recovery operations during data loss, corruption, system failures, or ransomware incidents.