Immediate need for a talented
Backup Administrator. This is a
06+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in
Lehi, UT (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID:26-34740
Pay Range: $65/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:- Manage enterprise backup platforms, policies, schedules, repositories, and storage targets.
- Monitor job health, investigate failures, and resolve capacity issues or policy drift.
- Execute and document file, system, application, and disaster recovery restores.
- Verify restored data aligns with target RPO and RTO standards.
- Implement security controls, including encryption, immutability, least-privilege access, and isolated credentials.
- Maintain workload records, ownership details, recovery metrics, and procedures to support coverage reviews.
- Maintain runbooks, standard operating procedures, architecture docs, and recovery evidence.
- Collaborate across infrastructure, security, resiliency, and audit teams to improve recovery readiness.
- Support upgrades, platform integrations, capacity planning, and automation.
- Escalate suspicious administrative actions, retention changes, and security events to Security Operations.
- Participate in recovery testing and implement corrective and preventive measures.
- Diagnose and resolve backup/restore incidents and service disruptions, coordinating with vendors through to resolution.
- System Support Activities.
Key Requirements and Technology Experience:- 5+ years of experience administering enterprise backup, storage, infrastructure, or disaster-recovery technologies.
- Hands-on experience with backup scheduling, retention, replication, immutable storage, encryption, monitoring, and restoration.
- Understanding of backup and recovery concepts, including RPO, RTO, retention, recovery sequencing, and restore validation.
- Familiarity with on-premises, cloud, virtualized, database, SaaS, and identity-system backup considerations.
- Ability to troubleshoot failed backup jobs and analyze logs, alerts, and platform telemetry.
- Knowledge of access control, privileged access management, multi-factor authentication, and separation of duties.
- Experience creating clear runbooks, standard operating procedures, and audit-ready evidence.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Scripting or automation experience using tools such as PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, or vendor automation frameworks is a plus.
- Relevant certifications in backup, storage, cloud, systems administration, or security are a plus, including but not limited to Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, and Cohesity.
Our client is a leading
IT Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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