Position Summary

The Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Enterprise Backup is
responsible for the design, implementation, and operational support of Enterprise
Backup & data protection platforms, with a focus on Veritas NetBackup and
Flex. This role ensures high availability, performance optimization, and
resiliency of backup services across on‑prem and hybrid/cloud environments.

Primary Responsibilities

Backup & Recovery (NetBackup)

• Design, implement, and administer Veritas NetBackup (including Flex Appliances).

• Define and manage backup
policies, retention schedules, and recovery procedures.

• Monitor and troubleshoot backup
jobs to ensure SLA compliance.

• Perform restore validations, DR
testing, and backup audits.

Data Protection & Disaster Recovery

• Develop and implement enterprise
backup and disaster recovery strategies.

• Integrate backup solutions with
virtualization (VMware).

• Support replication, archiving,
and data lifecycle management initiatives.

Operational Excellence & Incident Management

• Lead troubleshooting, root cause
analysis,



and resolution of backup incidents.

• Drive service reliability
improvements and prevent recurring issues.

• Support 24x7 operations/on-call
rotation as needed.

Capacity Planning & Performance Optimization

• Monitor Backup utilization and
forecast growth requirements.

• Optimize backup performance,
deduplication, and storage efficiency.

• Plan and execute storage
expansion and refresh activities.

Automation, Compliance & Documentation

• Automate backup operations using
scripting (PowerShell, Python).

• Maintain technical documentation,
SOPs, and architecture diagrams.

• Ensure compliance with security,
governance, and regulatory requirements.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with cloud,
virtualization, database, and application teams to deliver integrated
solutions.

• Provide technical leadership
and mentoring to junior engineers.

• Act as SME for enterprise backup
technologies.

Requirements

📌 Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Staples India Business Innovation Hub Private
📍 Chennai