Job Profile: Senior Commvault Backup Specialist

Focus: Daily Operations & L2/L3 Incident Management

Contract: 06 months

Location: Onsite in Mangalore is preferred. If not, then the engineer will have to work from Mumbai(Vikhroli)

Joining Date: Immediate joiners, preferably in a week’s time

Role Overview: We are looking for a Senior Commvault Backup Specialist to take full ownership of our daily backup operations, monitoring, maintenance, and incident response. The ideal candidate will ensure maximum data availability, strict adherence to recovery time/point objectives (RTO/RPO), and rapid troubleshooting of critical backup and restore failures across complex hybrid environments.

- Core Responsibilities (Must-Have / Daily Operations)

24/7 Operational Health & Monitoring: Proactively monitor backup jobs, MediaAgents, storage pools, and indexing across all environments (On-Prem, Multi-Cloud) using Commvault Command Center and reporting tools.

Incident & Problem Management (L2/L3): Act as the escalation point for complex backup/restore failures, performing root cause analysis (RCA) and performance bottleneck troubleshooting under strict SLAs.

Routine Maintenance & Upgrades: Perform regular Commvault platform updates (Service Packs / Feature Releases), client updates, database maintenance, and agent health checks.

Data Restoration & DR Drills: Execute regular data restores (files, VMs, databases) and participate in scheduled Disaster Recovery (DR) testing and audit validations.

Security & Immutability Management: Oversee backup security controls, including air-gap copy validations, immutable storage policies, and ransomware anomaly alerts.

Documentation & Compliance:



Maintain up-to-date Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), system topologies, and backup job compliance reports for audit purposes (e.g., ISO 27001, GDPR).

- Essential Technical Skills & Experience (Mandatory)

Experience: 4+ years of hands-on operational experience with Commvault Complete Data Protection / Command Center in medium-to-large corporate environments.

Environment Expertise: Proven experience operating backup policies across:

Virtualization: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V.

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SAP HANA.

Operating Systems: Windows Server and Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu) system administration basics related to backup agents.

Storage & Infrastructure: Good understanding of SAN/NAS protocols, Object Storage (AWS S3, Azure Blob), deduplication engines, and network bandwidth management.

Troubleshooting: Advanced log analysis skills (Commvault log files, OS event viewer, system logs) to identify and fix job failures efficiently.

- Desirable Skills (Nice-to-Have)

Architecture & Implementation & Capacity Planning: Experience designing, sizing, and implementing new Commvault infrastructure, HyperScale nodes, or cloud backup architectures from scratch.

Automation & Scripting: Ability to automate routine tasks, alerts, or custom workflows using PowerShell, Python, or Commvault REST APIs.

Container & Cloud-Native Backups: Familiarity with backing up Kubernetes/OpenShift workloads or cloud-native applications (AWS/Azure).

- Qualifications & Certifications

Commvault Certified Skilled (CCP): Highly Desirable

Commvault Certified Engineer (CCE) / Master: Desirable

- ITIL Foundation: Plus (or experience working within an ITIL-aligned service framework)

📌 Senior Commvault Backup Specialist (Mangalore)
🏢 Nlineaxis IT Solutions
📍 Mangalore