Job DescriptionJob Description -Backup AdministratorJob #26-04993Location: Santa Clara, CA / Lehi, UT
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite
Duration: Through January 29, 2027 (Extension potential is high)
Experience: 5-10 Years
Department: Digital Technology Group (DTG)
Position SummaryWe are seeking an experienced
Backup Administrator to manage and maintain enterprise backup and recovery operations across a large-scale IT infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience administering enterprise backup solutions, supporting on-premises environments, and managing backup and disaster recovery processes.
This individual will take ownership of the backup environment, including implementation, administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, recovery testing, and performance reporting. The role requires someone capable of independently managing backup operations while collaborating with infrastructure, IT operations, and disaster recovery teams.
Experience with enterprise backup platforms such as
Veeam, Rubrik, or Commvault is highly preferred. Candidates with comparable enterprise backup technologies will also be considered.
Key Responsibilities - Take ownership of enterprise backup and recovery environments, ensuring reliability, availability, and recoverability.
- Administer, configure, monitor, and maintain enterprise backup solutions such as Veeam, Rubrik, or Commvault.
- Support implementation, deployment, upgrades, and ongoing maintenance of backup technologies.
- Monitor backup jobs, troubleshoot failures, identify performance issues, and ensure successful backup completion.
- Coordinate backup restoration requests and execute recovery activities across enterprise infrastructure.
- Support disaster recovery (DR) planning, testing, validation, and business continuity initiatives.
- Implement and maintain backup security practices, including ransomware protection, snapshots, and immutable backups.
- Monitor backup health, validate recovery readiness, and track backup performance metrics.
- Develop dashboards and management reports communicating backup performance, potential risks, and recovery readiness.
- Analyze technical backup data and translate findings into actionable insights for management.
- Collaborate with infrastructure engineers, IT operations, disaster recovery, and other internal technical teams.
- Coordinate with vendors on technical implementations, support agreements, licensing, and annual maintenance renewals.
- Follow vendor documentation, recommended configurations, and security best practices.
- Support virtual machine deployments and basic infrastructure administration when required.
- Manage assigned tasks, technical deliverables, and project activities using Jira or similar ticketing tools.
- Identify opportunities to improve backup operations through automation and process enhancements.
Experience & Technical Requirements - 5+ years of hands-on enterprise backup administration experience;5-10 years preferred.
- Strong practical experience administering enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
- Direct experience with one or more of the following platforms:
- Veeam
- Rubrik
- Commvault
- Comparable enterprise backup solutions.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments with thousands of virtual machines.
- Strong understanding of on-premises infrastructure, virtualization, and enterprise backup architecture.
- Experience implementing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting backup solutions.
- Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup restoration, recovery testing, and business continuity processes.
- Experience with ransomware protection, immutable backups, snapshots, and data recovery.
- Ability to monitor backup jobs, validate results, investigate failures, and analyze performance metrics.
- Experience preparing dashboards and meaningful reports to communicate backup health and recovery readiness.
- General systems administration knowledge, including virtual machines, infrastructure operations, and basic security practices.
- Ability to interpret technical documentation and follow vendor implementation recommendations.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience managing enterprise backup environments over multiple years.
- Experience supporting backup infrastructure across large and complex IT environments.
- PowerShell, Python, or other scripting experience for administrative automation and reporting.
- Familiarity with Agile environments, sprint planning, Jira, and task management.
- Experience coordinating technical activities across multiple infrastructure teams.
- Familiarity with vendor support agreements, enterprise licensing, and maintenance renewals.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical information to nontechnical stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently, demonstrate ownership, troubleshoot issues, and manage competing priorities.
Meet Your RecruiterPawan Kumar 
