About the Role

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Backup Manager to lead our Enterprise Backup & Recovery function. This role will be responsible for managing mission-critical backup infrastructure, ensuring recovery readiness, driving disaster recovery initiatives, and leading a team of Backup Administrators supporting enterprise-scale environments.

The ideal candidate should possess deep expertise in Veeam Backup & Replication, working knowledge of Rubrik, strong leadership skills, and a passion for building resilient, cyber-secure, and highly available backup platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Backup Operations

- Own and manage enterprise backup and recovery services across on premises, virtualized, and cloud environments.
- Ensure successful backup execution, monitoring, reporting, and service availability.
- Establish and maintain backup policies, retention standards, and recovery procedures.
- Lead backup restoration activities and periodic recovery validations.
- Drive compliance with Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).
- Manage backup infrastructure lifecycle, capacity planning, performance, and optimization.

Veeam Platform Leadership

- Provide architectural and operational leadership for Veeam Backup & Replication environments.
- Manage backup repositories, proxies, replication jobs, backup copy jobs, SureBackup, and cloud integrations.
- Troubleshoot complex backup and recovery issues.
- Implement and enhance cyber resilience capabilities including immutable backups and secure recovery practices.

Rubrik Administration

- Manage Rubrik backup policies, SLA domains, reporting, and recovery operations.
- Support workload onboarding and data protection governance.
- Optimize backup performance and operational reporting.

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

- Lead Disaster Recovery testing, recovery exercises, and validation activities.
- Develop and maintain recovery runbooks and technical documentation.
- Partner with infrastructure, application, database,



and cloud teams to ensure recovery readiness.

Service Management & Governance

- Contribute to Incident, Problem, Change, and Capacity Management processes.
- Conduct root cause analysis for backup failures and recovery incidents.
- Establish operational KPIs, reporting standards, and service governance.
- Ensure audit readiness and compliance with enterprise and regulatory requirements.

Leadership & Team Management

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Backup Administrators.
- Define operational objectives, performance goals, and development plans.
- Drive best practices, standardization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Manage stakeholder communications, vendor relationships, and executive reporting.

Required Technical Skills

Advanced Expertise

Veeam Backup & Replication

Backup Architecture & Data Protection Strategy

Backup Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Replication Technologies

Disaster Recovery Planning & Execution

Recovery Testing & Validation

RPO / RTO Management

Capacity Planning & Performance Optimization

Ensure cyber resilient and air gaps backups

Intermediate Expertise

Rubrik Administration

SLA Policy Management

Recovery Operations

Reporting & Compliance

Infrastructure Good to know Knowledge

VMware vSphere

Microsoft Hyper-V

Enterprise Storage Platforms (SAN/NAS)

Cloud Backup Integration

Data Protection Governance

Operating Systems

Understanding of Windows Server Administration

Understanding of Linux Administration

Qualifications & Experience

- Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 12+ years of experience in Backup & Recovery Operations.
- Minimum 5+ years of people management or team leadership experience.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise backup environments.
- Proven experience in disaster recovery, backup governance, and operational excellence.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Preferred Certifications

- Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE)
- Good to have Rubrik Certification
- Valuable to have ITIL Foundation
- Good to have Microsoft Azure Certifications

📌 Backup and Recovery Operations Manager (Mumbai)
🏢 Trent
📍 Mumbai