Backup and Disaster Recovery Specialist

Operate backup, restoration, and disaster-recovery capabilities across the approved infrastructure and platform scope. This role is responsible for maintaining recoverability evidence and coordinating recovery exercises while business continuity ownership and recovery priorities remain with the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer backup policies, schedules, repositories, retention, and monitoring for approved systems.
• Investigate failed jobs, perform approved remediation, and report unresolved risks and capacity constraints.
• Plan and execute restoration tests while maintaining evidence of recoverability.
• Support disaster-recovery planning, technical runbooks, failover/failback procedures, and simulation exercises.
• Track recovery objectives and dependencies as confirmed by company service and business owners.
• Maintain backup inventories, job reports, exception registers, and recovery documentation.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, cloud, database, application, security, and business continuity teams.
• Participate in agreed on-call or planned out-of-hours recovery activities.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of enterprise backup and disaster-recovery experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Veeam, Commvault, or an equivalent enterprise backup platform.
• Practical understanding of RPO, RTO, retention, immutable/offline backup, and recovery validation.
• VMCE, Commvault certification, BCI/DRI qualification, or equivalent preferred.
• Ability to produce auditable reports and step-by-step recovery procedures.

Preferred Profile

• Previous experience supporting UAE government or regulated environments.
• Working knowledge of TDRA infrastructure and disaster-recovery coordination processes.
• Experience covering physical, virtual, cloud, and database backup workloads.

Expected Contribution

• Backup exceptions are detected, owned, and resolved or risk-accepted through the agreed process.
• Restoration tests provide documented evidence of recoverability.
• Recovery runbooks remain current and usable during exercises or incidents.
• Dependencies affecting recovery objectives are recorded and escalated.