Senior Backup & Recovery Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Client Engagement & Strategic Advisory
• Serve as the principal technical advisor to large enterprise clients on all matters related to backup, recovery, and data resiliency strategy.
• Lead executive-level workshops, discovery sessions, and strategic roadmap discussions with client CIOs, CTOs, and senior infrastructure leadership.
• Clearly articulate the business value and risk implications of backup and recovery strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Build trusted, long-term relationships with client stakeholders.

• Architecture & Technical Leadership
• Design and lead the development of enterprise-grade backup and recovery architectures across on-premises, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), and hybrid environments.
• Define and govern Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and resiliency tiers in alignment with business criticality and compliance requirements.
• Recommend best-fit data protection platforms and technologies based on client scale, complexity, regulatory obligations, and internal corporate standards.
• Drive architecture decisions around immutable storage, air-gapped environments, and cyber recovery vaulting to address ransomware and advanced threat resilience.
• Ensure architectures account for the full workload spectrum: virtual machines, physical servers, enterprise databases, NAS/SAN, cloud-native workloads, and containerized environments.

• Hands-On Implementation & Technical Execution
• Perform direct, hands-on configuration, administration, and optimization of enterprise backup platforms (e.g., Cohesity, Rubrik, Commvault, Veeam, Veritas NetBackup, Dell EMC NetWorker/Avamar, IBM Spectrum Protect).
• Execute and validate complex backup and recovery jobs, diagnose failures, and drive resolution across large-scale environments.
• Develop automation scripts and operational tooling (PowerShell, Bash, Python) to improve efficiency, reporting, and reliability of backup operations.

• Disaster Recovery & Business Resiliency
• Develop comprehensive DR runbooks, playbooks, and tabletop exercise frameworks for critical systems and applications.
• Champion a culture of resiliency helping clients understand the strategic importance of tested, reliable recovery capabilities as a core business function.

• Mentoring & Engineering Enablement
• Serve as a technical mentor and coach to junior, mid-level, and senior backup and infrastructure engineers.
• Conduct knowledge-transfer sessions, technical workshops, and training engagements to uplift engineering capability across teams.
• Establish and document best practices, standards, and frameworks for backup and recovery operations at scale.
• Review designs and configurations produced by engineering teams, providing constructive, expert feedback.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure with deep specialization in backup, recovery, and data protection.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise backup platforms (Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup, or equivalent).
• Hands-on experience with virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V) and native backup integration.
• Experience protecting enterprise databases (Oracle, SQL Server, SAP HANA, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Proficiency with scripting and automation (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Strong working knowledge of cloud-native backup and data protection in Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.

Conditions

• Full-time remote position.
• Salary range: $115,000 – $195,500 USD.