We are looking for an experienced Cohesity Backup Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Cohesity DataProtect / Data Cloud, enterprise backup and recovery solutions, and VMware infrastructure.
The ideal candidate should have experience in Cohesity cluster administration, backup configuration, troubleshooting, replication, disaster recovery, and data center migration or transformation projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and manage Cohesity DataProtect / Data Cloud environments.
- Perform Cohesity cluster administration, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Configure and manage backup, recovery, replication and restore operations.
- Manage VMware vSphere / Virtual Machine backup and recovery.
- Support enterprise data center migration, consolidation and transformation initiatives.
- Implement full and incremental backups, snapshot-based protection and retention policies.
- Ensure backup compliance with defined RPO and RTO requirements.
- Support disaster recovery, immutable backup and backup encryption solutions.
- Troubleshoot backup failures and ensure data availability and recoverability.
Mandatory Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Cohesity DataProtect / Cohesity Data Cloud.
- Cohesity cluster administration and backup configuration.
- Backup, restore, replication and troubleshooting.
- VMware vSphere / VM backup and recovery.
- Enterprise data center migration / consolidation experience.
- Strong understanding of
- Full and incremental backups.
- Snapshot-based protection.
- Replication and retention policies.
- RPO / RTO and Disaster Recovery.
- Immutable backups and backup encryption.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Experience migrating from legacy backup platforms to Cohesity.
- Knowledge of Azure / AWS backup and cloud archival.
- Experience protecting Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, NAS and physical servers.
- Knowledge of Cohesity APIs, PowerShell or Python scripting.
- Understanding of ransomware protection, cyber recovery and air-gap concepts.
- Experience working in an ITIL-based managed services environment.
Candidate Requirements
- 5- 8 years of relevant IT infrastructure / backup administration experience.
- Strong hands-on Cohesity experience is mandatory.
- Valuable troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to support enterprise backup and disaster recovery environments.
- Candidates who can join immediately or within 30 days are preferred.
Interested candidates can share their updated resumes along with current CTC, expected CTC, notice period and preferred work location.