Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist

🗓️ Posted 2026-07-25 UAE Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

AED 20,000–AED 32,000/mo (AED 240,000–AED 384,000/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

Responsibilities

  • ntion 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 partner 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.
  • 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.