Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Enterprise Backup

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