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Backup & DR Administrator

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Required: 4-8 Years

Nationality: Saudi National (mandatory)

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Backup & DR Administrator to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for enterprise backup operations, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity, ensuring that critical data and systems are protected, recoverable, and resilient against disruption. This role covers the full lifecycle of backup and DR - from design and deployment through configuration, day-to-day administration, testing, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Backup Administration: Manage end-to-end enterprise backup operations using EMC Networker, including policy design, backup scheduling, job monitoring, failure resolution, restore operations, and media/retention management.

• Administer and maintain EMC Storage systems supporting backup and recovery infrastructure, including capacity planning, replication, and performance monitoring.

• DR Design & Deployment: Design, deploy, and maintain disaster recovery solutions for critical systems and applications, including replication topologies, failover architecture, and recovery site readiness.

• DR Configuration: Configure and maintain DR tooling, replication jobs, failover/failback procedures, and recovery runbooks; keep DR configurations aligned with production changes.

• Disaster Recovery Planning & Administration: Develop, document, and maintain DR plans, defining and tracking RTO/RPO objectives for critical systems in coordination with business and application owners.

• Business Continuity: Contribute to business continuity planning (BCP), ensuring IT recovery capabilities support business continuity requirements and regulatory expectations.

• Plan and execute periodic DR drills, failover tests, and restore verification exercises; document results, identify gaps, and drive remediation actions.

• Administer and support Windows Server environments as they relate to backup, recovery, and DR operations.

• Perform proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis of backup failures, replication issues, and recovery-related incidents.

• Ensure backup and DR operations comply with organizational security policies, data retention requirements, and applicable regulatory standards.

• Maintain accurate documentation, including backup policies, DR plans, runbooks, test reports, and change records.

• Support audits by providing evidence of backup success rates, restore tests, and DR readiness.

• Participate in infrastructure projects to ensure new systems are onboarded into backup and DR coverage from day one.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Saudi national (mandatory requirement).

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• 4-8 years of hands-on experience in backup and disaster recovery administration within enterprise environments.

• Strong expertise in:

◦ Windows Server administration

◦ EMC Networker backup administration

◦ EMC Storage administration

◦ DR Design & Deployment

◦ DR Configuration (replication, failover/failback, recovery runbooks)

◦ Backup Administration (policies, scheduling, monitoring, restores, retention)

◦ Disaster Recovery Planning & Administration (DR plans, RTO/RPO, DR testing)

• Solid understanding of business continuity principles and how IT recovery capabilities support them.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to work under pressure during recovery events.

• Good communication and documentation skills in English & Arabic