Senior Backup Administrator

Job Title : Senior Backup Administrator

Job ID: 90664

Location : Toronto, Ontario

What you will be doing:

• You will administer and maintain enterprise backup platforms, policies, schedules, storage targets, and retention configurations.
• Monitor daily backup jobs, investigate failures, perform root cause analysis, and drive timely remediation.
• Perform file-level, server-level, virtual machine, database, and application recovery activities as required.
• Design and validate backup and recovery procedures to meet defined business continuity, disaster recovery, RPO, and RTO requirements.
• Support regular restore testing, disaster recovery exercises, and evidence collection for audit and compliance purposes.
• Manage backup capacity, deduplication, storage utilization, replication, archiving, and lifecycle management.
• Implement and maintain secure backup practices, including access control, encryption, immutability, and ransomware-resilient recovery approaches.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, knowledge base articles, technical diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, database, application, security, network, and vendor teams to resolve backup-related incidents and service requests.
• Participate in change management, incident management, problem management, and on-call support rotations as required.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive backup administration tasks using scripting, orchestration tools and API integration.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior backup or infrastructure administrators.

What you must have:

• You must have a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5-8 or more years of hands‑on experience administering enterprise backup and recovery platforms.
• Strong experience with backup technologies such as Veritas NetBackup, NBU Flex Appliance, CommVault, Veeam, Rubrik, NinjaOne, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting Windows, Linux, virtualization platforms, enterprise storage, and database backup integrations.
• Proven ability to design optimal database backup strategies, including backup frequency, retention, recovery models, and validation approaches aligned with business RPO, RTO, compliance, and resiliency requirements.
• Good understanding of backup methodologies, retention policies, disaster recovery concepts, and data protection best practices.
• Experience troubleshooting backup failures, storage issues, network connectivity, performance bottlenecks, and restore problems.
• Familiarity with IT service management processes, including incident, change, and problem management.
• Strong documentation, communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.

Salary/Rate Range: CAD $80,000 to CAD $130,000