Backup Administrator – Veeam

We are seeking a skilled Backup Administrator with strong Veeam experience. This role is responsible for the day-to-day administration, monitoring, and continuous improvement of our enterprise backup and recovery environment. The Backup Administrator will ensure that backups are secure, reliable, and recoverable, with a strong emphasis on immutable, object-storage-based data protection that supports our business continuity, disaster recovery, and ransomware-resilience objectives across data center and cloud environments.

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in backup administration, data protection, or infrastructure operations.
• Strong hands-on experience administering Veeam Backup & Replication in an enterprise environment, including jobs, repositories, proxies, and recovery workflows.
• Familiarity with object storage technologies (S3-compatible, Azure Blob, or on-premises object storage) as backup targets, including capacity tiering and scale-out backup repositories.
• Practical knowledge of backup immutability and hardened repositories, including object-lock and Linux hardened repository configurations for ransomware protection.
• Experience protecting workloads across VMware, Nutanix, Windows Server, and Linux platforms.
• Working knowledge of disaster recovery, business continuity, RPO/RTO concepts, and restore validation.
• Experience with backup encryption, secure access controls, and data-protection security best practices.
• Experience with Power Shell or scripting to automate routine backup administration and reporting tasks.
• Strong troubleshooting, organizational, and documentation skills, with the ability to work under pressure during recovery events.
• Ability to work independently, lead technical efforts, and collaborate effectively with global teams, vendors, and managed service providers.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.