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Hays

Senior Backup Administrator

Toronto, ON, Canada

Job type: Full-time
Apply by: Oct 30, 2026
Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 30, 2026

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Original job description

Job Title: Senior Backup Administrator

Location: Downtown Toronto (three days onsite)

Job type: Permanent /Full-time

Rate: CAD90k- CAD120k/annum

Responsibilities

Your Role

You will administer and maintain enterprise backup platforms, policies, schedules, storage targets, and retention configurations.
Monitor daily backup jobs, investigate failures, perform root cause analysis, and drive timely remediation.
Perform file-level, server-level, virtual machine, database, and application recovery activities as required.
Design and validate backup and recovery procedures to meet defined business continuity, disaster recovery, RPO, and RTO requirements.
Support regular restore testing, disaster recovery exercises, and evidence collection for audit and compliance purposes.
Manage backup capacity, deduplication, storage utilization, replication, archiving, and lifecycle management.
Implement and maintain secure backup practices, including access control, encryption, immutability, and ransomware-resilient recovery approaches.
Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, knowledge base articles, technical diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
Coordinate with infrastructure, database, application, security, network, and vendor teams to resolve backup-related incidents and service requests.
Participate in change management, incident management, problem management, and on-call support rotations as required.
Identify opportunities to automate repetitive backup administration tasks using scripting, orchestration tools and API integration.
Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior backup or infrastructure administrators.

Qualifications

About You

Required Qualifications

You must have a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
5-8 or more years of hands-on experience administering enterprise backup and recovery platforms.
Strong experience with backup technologies such as Veritas NetBackup, NBU Flex Appliance, Commvault, Veeam, Rubrik, NinjaOne, or similar platforms.
Experience supporting Windows, Linux, virtualization platforms, enterprise storage, and database backup integrations.
Proven ability to design optimal database backup strategies, including backup frequency, retention, recovery models, and validation approaches aligned with business RPO, RTO, compliance, and resiliency requirements.
Good understanding of backup methodologies, retention policies, disaster recovery concepts, and data protection best practices.
Experience troubleshooting backup failures, storage issues, network connectivity, performance bottlenecks, and restore problems.
Familiarity with IT service management processes, including incident, change, and problem management.
Strong documentation, communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience

Experience with cloud backup and archival services such as Microsoft Azure or AWS.
Experience with immutable backup, cyber recovery vaults, and ransomware recovery strategies.
Experience with scripting or automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar tools.
Exposure to enterprise monitoring tools and reporting dashboards.
Knowledge of storage technologies, tape libraries, SAN/NAS environments, deduplication appliances, MSDP within NetBackup Flex Appliance storage shelves, and object storage or blob-based storage.
Relevant certifications such as ITIL Foundation, Microsoft, VMware, Linux, cloud, storage, or vendor-specific backup certifications.

Key Performance Indicators

Backup job success rate and failure remediation time.
Successful completion of scheduled restore tests and disaster recovery exercises.
Compliance with defined RPO and RTO targets.
Timely completion of incident, service request, and change tickets.
Accuracy and completeness of backup documentation, reporting, and audit evidence.
Capacity utilization trends and proactive storage planning outcomes.

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Responsibilities

Administer enterprise backup platforms, monitor and troubleshoot backup jobs, and perform file, server, virtual machine, database, and application recovery. Design and test recovery procedures, manage backup capacity and security, maintain operational documentation, coordinate incident resolution, and automate routine tasks.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience, along with at least 5–8 years of hands-on enterprise backup and recovery administration. Candidates should have experience with backup platforms, Windows and Linux systems, virtualization, storage and database integrations, recovery planning, troubleshooting, and IT service management; cloud, immutable backup, and scripting experience are preferred.

Skills

Backup And Recovery
Veritas NetBackup
Commvault
Veeam
Rubrik
Windows
Linux
Virtualization
Database Backup
Disaster Recovery
RPO And RTO Planning
PowerShell
Python
Bash
IT Service Management

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Keywords

Enterprise Backup Platforms
Veritas NetBackup
NBU Flex Appliance
Commvault
Veeam
Rubrik
NinjaOne
Microsoft Azure
AWS
Windows
Linux
Virtualization
Database Backup
Disaster Recovery
Business Continuity
RPO
RTO
Immutable Backup
Cyber Recovery Vaults
Ransomware Recovery
PowerShell
Python
Bash
SAN/NAS
Tape Libraries
Deduplication
Object Storage
ITIL
Incident Management
Change Management

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