Backup Engineer

Role Summary We are hiring an L2 Backup Engineer to design, operate, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery platforms — covering virtual, physical, database, application, and cloud workloads with a clean DR posture. Key Responsibilities Operate enterprise backup platforms (Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, Rubrik, Cohesity). Design and implement backup policies, SLAs (RPO/RTO), and retention. Run daily backup health checks; resolve failures within SLA. Restore-test critical systems on schedule; document outcomes. Operate replication, immutability, and air-gapped copies (3-2-1 / 3-2-1-1-0). Support DR drills and post-drill report-outs. Coordinate with storage, virtualization, and DBA teams on backup integrations. Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in IT or equivalent. 4+ years operating enterprise backup platforms in production. Strong with at least one of: Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, Rubrik, Cohesity. Hands-on with VMware / Hyper-V backup and database backup (SQL, Oracle). Familiarity with deduplication appliances (DataDomain, HPE StoreOnce). - Scripting in PowerShell or Python. - Professional English — mandatory. Preferred / Nice to Have - Working knowledge of Arabic is a plus. Vendor certifications (Veeam VMCE, Commvault Master, NetBackup Admin). Cloud backup (Azure Backup, AWS Backup) experience. - Tape library + LTO operations. Originally posted on Himalayas