Senior Data Protection Engineer - Enterprise Backup & Recovery

Description :

Senior Data Protection Engineer - Enterprise Backup & Recovery

Location : Hyderabad

Experience : 7 - 10 Years (strong 5 - 7 yrs profiles may be considered)

Work Mode : Onsite / Hybrid

Role Snapshot :

We are hiring a Senior Data Protection Engineer to own and support enterprise backup, recovery, and data resilience platforms. This role is critical to ensuring data availability, compliance, and rapid recovery across complex IT environments including virtual, physical, and database systems.

What Youll Do :

- Manage and support enterprise backup solutions such as Veritas NetBackup and Commvault

- Handle end-to-end backup operations including policy creation, scheduling, retention, and reporting

- Work with Dell EMC Data Domain platforms (capacity, replication, performance)

- Perform backup monitoring, failure analysis, and complex restores

- Support data protection for VMware, Linux, Windows, and database workloads

- Participate in DR drills, audits, and compliance reporting

- Troubleshoot backup, replication, and recovery performance issues

- Collaborate with infrastructure, storage, and application teams

- Maintain operational documentation, SOPs, and runbooks

- Be part of 24x7 on-call support and incident management

Must-Have Skills :

- Strong hands-on experience with Veritas NetBackup

- Working knowledge of Commvault

- Solid expertise in Dell EMC Data Domain

- Experience supporting backups for virtualized and enterprise environments

- Understanding of SAN/NAS storage concepts

- Exposure to large-scale production environments

Nice to Have :

- Experience with Cohesity or modern backup platforms

- Cloud backup exposure (AWS / Azure)

- Linux shell scripting / automation

- Backup reporting tools (OpsCenter or similar)

- Experience in regulated or BFSI environments