Senior Backup and Data Governance Analyst

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The Senior Backup and Data Governance Analyst is responsible for leading enterprise data protection, recovery, governance, and resiliency initiatives across hybrid infrastructure and cloud environments. This role combines deep expertise in backup and recovery technologies with strong knowledge of data governance, data classification, retention, lifecycle management, compliance, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity planning (BCP). The successful candidate will design, implement, and support enterprise backup solutions and be a subject matter expert on Veeam and Commvault, and related technologies while establishing governance standards that ensure organizational data is appropriately classified, retained, protected, recoverable, and managed throughout its lifecycle.

Working closely with Infrastructure, Security, Risk, Legal, Compliance, and business stakeholders, this role helps ensure enterprise data remains secure, compliant, audit-ready, and aligned with business and regulatory requirements.

• Backup, Recovery & Cyber Resiliency Design, implement, and administer enterprise backup and recovery solutions using Veeam, Commvault, and AvePoint and related technologies.
• Manage backup operations, including backup jobs, replication, retention policies, capacity planning, performance optimization, and cloud tiering.
• Implement immutable backup architectures, ransomware protection controls, and cyber recovery solutions.
• Perform backup validation, restore testing, recovery simulations, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for backup, recovery, and data protection incidents.
• Monitor backup environments and proactively address performance, capacity, compliance, and operational risks.
• Data Center & Cloud Platforms Support backup and recovery services across physical and virtual server environments.
• Administer and protect workloads running on VMware, Windows Server, and Linux platforms.
• Support data protection strategies across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP environments.
• Manage backup infrastructure, repositories, storage platforms, cloud object storage, and immutable storage solutions.
• Recommend and implement resilient backup architectures that eliminate single points of failure.
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Support and lead Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) initiatives.
• Ensure recovery solutions align with business-defined RTO and RPO requirements.
• Conduct recovery testing, tabletop exercises, and DR…