Senior Backup & Recovery Administrator; Cohesity & Veeam

Senior Backup & Recovery Administrator (Cohesity & Veeam)

Franklin, TN (Onsite)

Job Description :

Backup & Recovery Architecture:

• Design and implement enterprise backup, recovery, and archival solutions using Cohesity and Veeam.
• Develop scalable architectures for on premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Evaluate current backup strategies and recommend improvements aligned with industry best practices.

Operations & Administration:

• Manage day to day backup operations, including job configuration, scheduling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Perform installation, upgrades, patching, and configuration of Cohesity and Veeam platforms.
• Ensure backup success rates, SLA adherence, and timely resolution of incidents.

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity:

• Develop and maintain DR runbooks, workflows, and recovery procedures.
• Conduct periodic DR drills, failover testing, and validation of RPO/RTO objectives.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to ensure end to end recoverability.

Performance Optimization & Automation:

• Optimize backup performance, storage utilization, and data retention policies.
• Automate repetitive tasks using Power Shell, Python, or API based integrations.
• Implement monitoring dashboards and reporting for capacity, performance, and compliance.

Security & Compliance:

• Ensure backup environments meet security, audit, and compliance requirements.
• Implement encryption, immutability, air gapped backups, and ransomware resilient architectures.
• Act as the primary SME for Cohesity and Veeam technologies.
• Provide guidance, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to operations teams.
• Work closely with vendors, engineering teams, and stakeholders to support strategic initiatives.

Required

Skills & Experience:

• 6–10+ years of experience in enterprise backup and recovery technologies.
• Strong hands on expertise with:
• Cohesity Data Protect, Data Platform, Smart Files
• Experience with backup installation, configuration, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Solid understanding of:
• VMware, Hyper V, and physical server backups
• NAS, SAN, and object storage
• Windows and Linux environments
• Knowledge of DR strategies, replication technologies, and snapshot based backups.
• Scripting experience (Power Shell, Python) is a strong advantage.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cohesity or Veeam certifications (e.g., Veeam VMCE, Cohesity Practitioner/Architect).
• Experience in large scale, multi-site enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with ITIL processes and service management tools.

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and lead technical initiatives.

The pay range for this role is $110,000 - $115,000
* per annum including any bonuses or variable pay. Tech Mahindra also offers benefits like medical, vision, dental, life, disability insurance and paid time off (including holidays, parental leave, and sick leave, as required by law). Ask our recruiters for more details on our Benefits package. The exact offer terms will depend on the skill level, educational qualifications, experience and location of the candidate.

Tech Mahindra is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We promote and support a diverse workforce at all levels of the company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or disability. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence, and performance of the essential functions of their positions with or without reasonable accommodations.

Reasonable accommodations also are available in the hiring process for applicants with disabilities. Candidates can request a reasonable accommodation by contacting the company ADA Coordinator at ADA_A