Operate backup, restoration and disaster-recovery capabilities across the approved infrastructure and platform scope. The role maintains recoverability evidence and coordinates recovery exercises while business continuity ownership and recovery priorities remain with the Entity.
Key Responsibilities• Administer backup policies, schedules, repositories, retention and monitoring for approved systems.
• Investigate failed jobs, perform approved remediation and report unresolved risks and capacity constraints.
• Plan and execute restoration tests and maintain evidence of recoverability.
• Support disaster-recovery planning, technical runbooks, failover/failback procedures and simulation exercises.
• Track recovery objectives and dependencies as confirmed by Entity service and business owners.
• Maintain backup inventories, job reports, exception registers and recovery documentation.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, cloud, database, application, security and business continuity teams.
• Participate in agreed on-call or planned out-of-hours recovery activities.
RequirementsMinimum Experience and Qualifications
• Minimum 5 years of enterprise backup and disaster-recovery experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Veeam, Commvault or an equivalent enterprise backup platform.
• Practical understanding of RPO, RTO, retention, immutable/offline backup and recovery validation.
• VMCE, Commvault certification, BCI/DRI qualification or equivalent preferred.
• Ability to produce auditable reports and step-by-step recovery procedures.
Preferred Profile• Previous experience supporting UAE government or regulated environments.
• Working knowledge of TDRA infrastructure and disaster-recovery coordination processes.
• Experience covering physical, virtual, cloud and database backup workloads.
Expected Contribution• Backup exceptions are detected, owned and resolved or risk-accepted through the agreed process.
• Restoration tests provide documented evidence of recoverability.
• Recovery runbooks remain current and usable during exercises or incidents.
• Dependencies affecting recovery objectives are recorded and escalated.
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years of enterprise backup and disaster-recovery experience.
- Hands-on experience with Veeam, Commvault or equivalent enterprise backup platform.
- Practical understanding of RPO, RTO, retention, immutable/offline backup and recovery validation.
- Ability to produce auditable reports and step-by-step recovery procedures.
- VMCE, Commvault certification, BCI/DRI qualification or equivalent.
- Previous experience supporting UAE government or regulated environments.
- Working knowledge of TDRA infrastructure and disaster-recovery coordination processes.
- Experience covering physical, virtual, cloud and database backup workloads.
What We Do
We are a global team who's passionate about transformative enterprise solutions & intelligent design. Our solutions and designs are out to reshape the way people interact with technology. BlackStone eIT supplies innovative solutions to automate and digitally transform human and information intensive processes. We empower breakthrough business results with smarter workflows, augmented business intelligence with AI insights, and through real-time situational awareness which all drive better business outcomes. BlackStone offers a portfolio of next generation solutions, tools, and technologies to be used as a platform to transform traditional organizations into modern smart organizations. Our solutions are designed to dramatically reduce operating costs, increase competitiveness, mitigate risk, boost internal productivity, improve the customer and employee experience, and to make the previously impossible, possible
