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

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 8-10 years of experience in enterprise backup engineering.
- Hands-on expertise with:
- Veritas NetBackup (including flex appliance) administration and architecture
- Backup & recovery concepts (replication, deduplication, retention)

- Experience supporting production environments with high availability and SLA requirements.
- Shift timings 3 pm to 11pm Indian Standard Time

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with data protection appliances (Data Domain, NetBackup appliances).
- Knowledge of virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere, Hyper‑V).
- Familiarity with ITSM tools (ServiceNow).

- Certifications (preferred)

- Veritas NetBackup Certification

- ITIL Foundation

📌 Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Enterprise Backup (Chennai)
🏢 Staples India
📍 Chennai