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Backup & 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.

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  • What is your current salary in AED/Monthly?
  • What is your expected salary in AED/Month?
  • What is your notice period ?
  • What is your nationality ?
  • How many years of enterprise-level backup and disaster-recovery (DR) administration and operations experience do you have? written answer
  • Which enterprise backup platforms do you have hands-on administration experience with? written answer
  • Do you have practical, hands-on experience configuring and managing Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), retention policies, and immutable/offline backup solutions? written answer
  • Do you hold relevant industry certifications (e.g., VMCE, Commvault professional certification, BCI/DRI qualification, or equivalent)? yes / no
  • Do you have prior experience supporting backup and DR operations for UAE government entities or highly regulated environments, particularly involving TDRA infrastructure coordination? written answer
  • Does your background cover backup and recovery across physical servers, virtualized environments, cloud infrastructure, and database-level workloads? yes / no
  • What is your Visa Status ? written answer

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