IT Backup Administrator

Yas Tanzania (AXIAN Group) is looking to hire an IT Backup Administrator in Dar es Salaam to design, administer, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, administer, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
• Schedule, initiate, monitor, and verify successful completion of backup jobs.
• Perform on-demand backups for servers, databases, virtual machines, applications, and file systems.
• Monitor auxiliary copy jobs and verify successful replication to tape media.
• Install, configure, and upgrade backup agents (e.g. Commvault) on new servers and clients as required.
• Move backup tapes to secure vault storage according to retention schedules.
• Perform restoration of files, databases, virtual machines, operating systems, and applications upon approved requests.
• Ensure organizational readiness for disaster recovery scenarios.
• Generate and distribute daily, weekly, and monthly backup reports.
• Ensure backup systems comply with organizational security policies.
• Implement backup encryption and secure data transmission.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of hands-on experience administering enterprise backup solutions.
• Professional certifications in backup technologies or storage management are an added advantage.
• Technical knowledge of enterprise backup solutions such as Commvault Simpana, Rubrik, Windows Server Administration, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Excellent troubleshooting abilities.
• Team player with a high level of integrity.
• Commvault
• Rubrik
• VMware vSphere
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Windows Server Administration
• Disaster Recovery