Specialist, Backup & Resiliency

Overview

Nutrien is a leading provider of crop inputs and services. Our purpose, Feeding the Future, guides our culture of care and our core values: safety, inclusion, integrity, and results. We strive to create an inclusive workplace where everyone feels safe and has a sense of belonging, trusts one another, and acts with integrity.

Through the collective expertise of nearly 26,000 employees, we operate a world-class network of production, distribution, and ag retail facilities. We serve growers’ needs and aim to provide a more profitable, sustainable, and secure future for all stakeholders. Help us raise the expectation of what an agriculture company can be and grow your career with Nutrien.

The Backup and Resiliency Technical Specialist is responsible for the stability, scalability, and continuous improvement of the enterprise backup and recovery platform. This role acts as the technical escalation point for backup services, provides architectural and capacity guidance for new backup deployments, and partners closely with Disaster Recovery (DR), Infrastructure, Cloud, and Application teams to ensure the organization’s data protection and recovery posture aligns with business and risk requirements.

It also contributes to the maturity of backup and disaster recovery practices through automation, reporting, documentation, and standards development.

• Backup Platform Ownership & Technical Leadership
  • Support operational teams to ensure enterprise backups are enabled, running successfully, and free of systemic errors across all supported workloads.
  • Act as the highest-level technical escalation for backup and recovery issues, including complex failures and restore scenarios.
  • Provide design, sizing, capacity, and architectural guidance for new backup use cases and platform enhancements.
  • Partner with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to onboard new systems into backup services in alignment with standards and best practices.
  • Identify risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities in the backup environment and drive remediation.
• Automation, Monitoring & Reporting
  • Design and implement automation to improve backup operations, validation, and reporting.
  • Develop and enhance health, compliance, and capacity reporting to support operational teams and leadership visibility.
  • Support continuous optimization of backup performance, cost efficiency, and recoverability.
• Disaster Recovery & Resiliency Enablement
  • Act as a technical partner to the Disaster Recovery program, supporting backup-related DR requirements and recovery strategies.
  • Contribute to the development and maintenance of application DR plans, runbooks, and recovery artifacts related to backup systems.
  • Support DR exercises, technical validations, and quality reviews to ensure backup and recovery expectations can be met during real incidents.
  • Ensure backup and recovery practices align with organizational risk tolerance, policy, and regulatory requirements.
• Documentation, Standards & Continuous Improvement
  • Maintain accurate, current technical documentation for backup platforms, architectures, and operational procedures.
  • Contribute to the evolution of backup and DR standards, patterns, and guidance.
  • Proactively evaluate new technologies, features, and approaches to improve data protection and resiliency.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in IT operations or infrastructure roles.
• Strong server administration experience across Windows and Linux platforms.
• Hands-on experience with virtualized and cloud environments, including VMware, AWS, and Azure.
• Working knowledge of database backup and recovery concepts, including platforms such as SQL Server, Oracle, and SAP HANA.
• Experience with scripting and automation, using languages such as Python, Bash, or similar.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and lead resolution efforts.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale backup platforms and data protection solutions, such as cloud-native solutions in AWS and Azure, Veeam, and Cohesity Data Protect.
• AIX and IBM POWER experience would be an…