General description of the position:

The DRP, Storage, and Backup Engineer (Cloud-Enabled) is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing resilient storage, backup, and disaster recovery (DR) solutions across hybrid infrastructure including on-premises environments (VMware, Hyper-V), Azure Cloud, Azure Stack HCI, and other supported platforms. This role ensures enterprise-wide data integrity, availability, and compliance using best-in-class solutions such as Veeam (on-prem and cloud), Azure-native tools, Dell Data Domain, Dell Powerstore, and Wasabi for long-term storage. The engineer will play a key role in protecting business-critical workloads across global data centers and cloud platforms, leveraging advanced monitoring tools

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Planning

Lead the planning and architecture of DR, backup, and storage strategies that span on-prem (VMware, Hyper-V) and cloud (Azure, Azure Stack HCI) environments.
Develop long-term strategies for capacity management, data lifecycle policies, and disaster recovery across hybrid platforms.
Work closely with infrastructure, application, and compliance teams to align backup and storage goals with business continuity and regulatory requirements.

Acquisition & Deployment

Design and implement backup and storage solutions using Veeam Backup & Replication (on-prem), Veeam for Azure, and Azure-native backup tools.
Manage Dell Data Domain appliances for data protection, deduplication, and secure offsite retention.
Configure and maintain Dell Powerstore storage arrays for structured and unstructured workloads, including VM-based environments.
Plan and execute workload migrations from VMware and Hyper-V to Azure, ensuring backup/DR coverage during and after transition.
Utilize Terraform and Azure Arc to manage hybrid backup policies and DR automation.
Optimize infrastructure using tools like Azure Cost Management, Azure Advisor, and Veeam ONE.

Operational Handling :

Administer backup and replication jobs for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Azure VMs, ensuring adherence to RPO/RTO targets.
Manage and test backup/restoration workflows using Veeam Enterprise Manager, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery (ASR).
Ensure storage performance and availability using systems like Dell PowerStore and Dell Data Domain.
Regularly perform DR drills across on-prem and cloud environments using Veeam and Azure Native Backup.
Configure and enforce data protection policies across multiple environments, ensuring encryption, access control, immutability, and legal hold where applicable.
Configure and maintain Wasabi cloud storage as a long-term, cost-effective backup target across tools like Veeam and Azure Backup, with immutability and legal hold support.
Monitor backup operations and storage health using Nagios (on-prem) and Azure Monitor (cloud), with proactive alerting and root cause analysis.
Monitor, analyze, and report on backup success, DR readiness, storage utilization, and compliance using dashboards and reporting tools.

Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for configurations, processes, and recovery procedures.

Interactions:

Provide expert-level support for backup/DR escalations and collaborate with global teams to standardize backup policies and practices.
Guide junior team members and cross-functional partners on the implementation and maintenance of DR and backup solutions.

Participate in audits and compliance reviews, delivering backup reports and supporting remediation efforts where needed.

Must Haves :

Must have relevant licenses or certifications.
Must have at least 10-12 years of experience, out of which:
At least three (3) years experience as a Hybrid Infrastructure Engineer working with 24x7 critical systems following ITIL framework and in projects, working with stakeholders following structured methods. Five (5) years preferred.
At least three (3) years experience with on-prem, hybrid and cloud platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, Azure Stack HCI and Azure Cloud). Five (5) years preferred.
At least three (3) years system administration experience (Linux/Unix or Windows) at the command-line level.
Experience configuring Wasabi cloud storage for long-term archival, immutable backup repositories, and integration with tools such as Veeam and Azure.
Working technical experience with designing, building, installing, configuring, and supporting storage servers and management software, including Veeam and Wasabi.
Experience automating infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and managing hybrid environments with Azure Arc.

Basic knowledge of troubleshooting layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3 issues.

IT DRP, Storage and Backup Engineer