Senior Backup Administrator SA📣 إعلان

About DeepSource Technologies

DeepSource Technologies is seeking a Senior Backup Administrator to join our team in Riyadh. This full-time role focuses on managing and maintaining enterprise backup, recovery, and cyber resilience solutions within complex IT environments.

Position Summary

The Senior Backup Administrator will be responsible for ensuring reliable backup operations, disaster recovery readiness, and robust protection against cyber threats. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in administering Veritas NetBackup, Dell Data Domain, Dell Cyber Recovery Solution (CRS), and other Dell EMC backup technologies. Support for VMware, Hyper-V, Windows, and Linux server environments is also a key component of this position.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, and maintain Veritas NetBackup infrastructure, including policies, schedules, storage units, media servers, and clients.
• Monitor daily backup and restore operations, proactively identifying failures, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring successful job completion.
• Perform backup, restore, and recovery operations for enterprise applications, databases, virtual machines, and file systems.
• Administer and support Dell Data Domain appliances, covering storage management, DD Boost configuration, replication, retention policies, capacity monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Configure, maintain, and support Dell Cyber Recovery Solution (CRS), including the 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 necessary improvements.
• Manage backup lifecycle activities, including software upgrades, patches, firmware updates, and infrastructure maintenance.
• Implement immutable backup practices, ransomware protection measures, and cyber recovery best practices to protect backup environments.
• 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.
• Provide backup and recovery support for Windows Server and Linux environments.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field.
• A minimum of 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), and Dell NetWorker.
• Solid understanding of backup and recovery concepts, including RPO (Recovery Point Objective), RTO (Recovery Time Objective), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Business Continuity.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the above qualifications are encouraged to apply for this position.