Senior Backup Administrator- Riyadh, KSA

We are seeking an experienced Backup Administrator with strong hands-on expertise in enterprise backup, recovery, and cyber resilience solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience administering Veritas NetBackup , Dell Data Domain , Dell Cyber Recovery Solution (CRS) , and Dell EMC backup technologies, ensuring reliable backup operations, disaster recovery readiness, and protection against cyber threats. The candidate should also have experience supporting VMware or Hyper-V environments and Windows/Linux servers.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, and maintain Veritas NetBackup enterprise backup infrastructure, including backup policies, schedules, storage units, media servers, and clients.
• Monitor daily backup and restore operations, proactively identify failures, troubleshoot issues, and ensure successful completion of all backup jobs.
• Perform backup, restore, and recovery operations for enterprise applications, databases, virtual machines, and file systems.
• Administer and support Dell Data Domain appliances, including storage management, DD Boost configuration, replication, retention policies, capacity monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Configure, maintain, and support Dell Cyber Recovery Solution (CRS) , including Cyber Recovery Vault, recovery policies, orchestration workflows, and cyber recovery testing.
• Support Dell EMC backup solutions such as PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) and Dell NetWorker as required.
• Conduct disaster recovery (DR) testing and validate backup recoverability to ensure compliance with business continuity requirements.
• Monitor backup infrastructure capacity, storage utilization, and system health, recommending improvements where necessary.
• Manage backup lifecycle activities, including software upgrades, patches, firmware updates, and backup infrastructure maintenance.
• Protect backup environments against cyber threats by implementing immutable backup practices, ransomware protection measures, and cyber recovery best practices.
• Support backup operations for VMware vSphere/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, storage, virtualization, security, database, and application teams to ensure reliable backup and recovery services.
• Support Windows Server and Linux environments from a backup and recovery perspective.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise backup, recovery, and system administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Veritas NetBackup administration.
• Experience administering Dell Data Domain appliances.
• Experience with Dell EMC backup solutions , including:
• Cyber Recovery Solution (CRS)
• Data Domain
• PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM)
• Dell NetWorker

Solid understanding of backup and recovery concepts, including

• RPO (Recovery Point Objective)
• RTO (Recovery Time Objective)
• Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Business Continuity