As a Data Protection Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in managing, optimising, and scaling our enterprise backup and recovery infrastructure. You’ll bring deep technical expertise, a proactive mindset, and a collaborative approach to ensure robust data protection and business continuity across our hybrid environments.
Your responsibilities will include:Administer and maintain the Commvault backup and recovery environment across hybrid infrastructure.
Monitor system health, job performance, and storage utilisation proactively.
Lead root cause analysis and resolution of backup failures, restore issues, and performance bottlenecks.
Provide L3 support and mentor junior engineers.
Ensure adherence to data retention and protection policies.
Maintain detailed documentation for backup configurations, SOPs, and disaster recovery plans.
Design and test disaster recovery strategies.
Apply a strong risk mindset to proactively mitigate risks.
Automate routine backup tasks using scripting tools (Python, PowerShell, Ansible).
Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to integrate Commvault with AWS and other platforms.
Participate in capacity planning and architecture reviews.
We’re interested in hearing from people who have:
Expert-level hands-on experience with Commvault, DataDomain, Networker, CommServe, Media Agents, and client configurations.
Strong understanding of backup policies, deduplication, catalogue management, and storage targets (ECS, Pure, VMAX).
Proficiency in VMware technology – Aria Suite, VRA/VRO Automation.
Proficiency in AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM) and AWS Cloud Practitioner certification.
Experience with scripting and automation tools (Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, Terraform).
Familiarity with monitoring tools and reporting dashboards such as Grafana and Prometheus.
It’s also nice if you have:
Extensive experience in enterprise backup and recovery.
Commvault Certified Professional or higher.
Strong understanding of storage concepts, allocations, and replication technologies.
Exposure to ITIL processes and change management.
Working with us
Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.
Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we’re driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.
Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We really love working here, and we think you will too.
Simply apply now - this could be your next career move!
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Australia’s leading provider of financial services including retail, premium, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and sharebroking products and services.
We are a business with more than 800,000 shareholders and over 52,000 employees. We offer a full range of financial services to help all Australians build and manage their finances.
