Senior Backup & Disaster Recovery Specialist

Full-time
Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, ae · Dubai, Dubai, ae · Nahwa, Sharjah, aevia Workable ATSPosted Aug 10, 2026
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Technical skills

SRETechnical writing

Requirements

  • 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 partner 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.

Minimum 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.

Before you apply

  • 1Which parts of your CV prove experience with SRE and Technical writing?
  • 2Which recent work examples would make your application stronger for this role?
  • 3What details from the original source listing should you confirm before applying?

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