Backup and Disaster Recovery Specialist
Operate backup, restoration and disaster-recovery capabilities across the approved infrastructure and platform scope. The role maintains recoverability evidence and coordinates recovery exercises while business continuity ownership and recovery priorities remain with the entity.
Key responsibilities
Administer backup policies, schedules, repositories, retention and monitoring for approved systems.
Investigate failed jobs, perform approved remediation and report unresolved risks and capacity constraints.
Plan and execute restoration tests and maintain evidence of recoverability.
Support disaster-recovery planning, technical runbooks, failover/failback procedures and simulation exercises.
Track recovery objectives and dependencies as confirmed by entity service and business owners.
Maintain backup inventories, job reports, exception registers and recovery documentation.
Coordinate with infrastructure, cloud, database, application, security and business continuity teams.
Participate in agreed on-call or planned out-of-hours recovery activities.
Requirements
Minimum experience and qualifications
Minimum 5 years of enterprise backup and disaster-recovery experience.
Strong hands-on experience with Veeam, Commvault or an equivalent enterprise backup platform.
Practical understanding of RPO, RTO, retention, immutable/offline backup and recovery validation.
VMCE, Commvault certification, BCI/DRI qualification or equivalent preferred.
Ability to produce auditable reports and step-by-step recovery procedures.
Preferred profile
Previous experience supporting UAE government or regulated environments.
Working knowledge of TDRA infrastructure and disaster-recovery coordination processes.
Experience covering physical, virtual, cloud and database backup workloads.
Expected contribution
Backup exceptions are detected, owned and resolved or risk-accepted through the agreed process.
Restoration tests provide documented evidence of recoverability.
Recovery runbooks remain current and usable during exercises or incidents.
Dependencies affecting recovery objectives are recorded and escalated.