Title: Backup Administrator ( IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM))

Experience: 5+ years

Location: Gurugram

Skills Required: Backup Management, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) / IBM Spectrum Protect.

Notice Period: Immediate joiner

Qualification: B.E./B.Tech (CS/IT/ECE) / MCA / M.Sc. (IT/CS) from a recognised university

We at Coforge are seeking a “Backup Administrator " Administer, monitor, and maintain enterprise backup infrastructure using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) / IBM Spectrum Protect.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Administer, monitor, and maintain enterprise backup infrastructure using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) / IBM Spectrum Protect.
- Configure, implement, and manage backup and recovery policies for servers, databases, applications, virtual machines, and storage platforms.
- Perform backup scheduling, monitoring, troubleshooting, and restoration activities to ensure successful data protection and recovery.
- Manage backup retention policies, storage pools, deduplication, tape libraries, backup repositories, and archival processes.
- Execute daily, weekly, and monthly backup validation and health checks, ensuring adherence to SLAs.
- Plan, test, and support Disaster Recovery (DR) activities, recovery drills, and business continuity initiatives.
- Troubleshoot backup failures, performance issues, and recovery incidents while coordinating with infrastructure, storage, database, and application teams.
- Monitor backup workplace capacity, utilization, growth trends, and performance optimization opportunities.
- Ensure compliance with organizational backup standards, security policies, audit requirements, and data retention regulations.
- Prepare operational reports, SOPs, technical documentation, knowledge base articles, and support handover activities.




- Support incident, problem, and change management processes in accordance with ITIL best practices.
- Participate in migration, upgrade, implementation, and modernization of backup solutions across enterprise environments.

Required Skills:

- 5+ years of hands-on experience in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) / IBM Spectrum Protect Administration.
- Strong experience in backup, restore, recovery, and disaster recovery operations.
- Expertise in managing tape libraries, storage pools, backup repositories, deduplication, and archival solutions.
- Experience with enterprise backup tools such as IBM Spectrum Protect, or similar technologies.
- Good knowledge of Windows and Linux/Unix server environments.
- Understanding of SAN, NAS, enterprise storage systems, and data center infrastructure.
- Experience in troubleshooting backup performance issues and backup environment optimization.
- Exposure to virtualization platforms such as VMware and Hyper-V.
- Familiarity with incident management, root cause analysis, and operational support activities.
- Good understanding of backup policies, retention management, compliance requirements, and audit processes.
- Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience working in large-scale enterprise or government data center environments.
- Knowledge of cloud backup technologies and hybrid backup architectures.
- Understanding of ITIL processes and managed services environments.
- Relevant certifications in IBM Spectrum Protect, Backup Administration.
- Exposure to scripting and automation using PowerShell, Shell Scripting, or Python for operational efficiency.

Key Skills:

- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
- IBM Spectrum Protect,Backup & Replication
- Tape Library Management

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