Backup Administrator – Veeam III
Indotronix International Corporation•Charlotte, NC
•Hybrid
About The Position
Join a dynamic Infrastructure Platform Engineering team as a Backup Administrator – Veeam III and serve as the Veeam Subject Matter Expert for a recently adopted enterprise backup environment. This high-impact role involves end-to-end Veeam administration and supporting business continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience initiatives in a mission-critical setting. The position requires onsite presence in Charlotte, NC three days per week. The assignment is described as 12+ months, with pay up to $65 per hour W2.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in backup administration, data protection, or infrastructure operations.
- Deep, hands-on Veeam Backup & Replication experience in enterprise settings.
- Proficiency with object storage, including S3-compatible storage and Azure Blob, as backup targets.
- Demonstrated knowledge of backup immutability and hardened repositories.
- Experience protecting VMware, Nutanix, Windows Server, and Linux workloads.
- Strong understanding of disaster recovery, RPO/RTO, and restore validation.
- Skill in backup encryption, secure access, and security best practices.
- Proficiency in PowerShell or scripting for automation.
- Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently, lead initiatives, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to work onsite in Charlotte, NC three days per week.
- Availability to participate in an on-call rotation and provide after-hours support as needed.
Nice To Haves
- Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) certification.
- Experience with Veeam upgrades, migrations, and appliance-based deployments.
- Expertise in cloud data protection, cyber-recovery, and immutable storage.
- Familiarity with Grafana, Splunk, and compliance or audit frameworks such as CIS.
Responsibilities
- Administer, monitor, and maintain the Veeam Backup & Replication platform, ensuring backups are secure, reliable, and recoverable.
- Configure and manage object storage targets, scale-out repositories, and long-term retention strategies.
- Implement and maintain backup immutability and hardened repository configurations to help prevent data loss and ransomware attacks.
- Develop, optimize, and enforce backup policies, schedules, retention, and replication strategies aligned with RPO/RTO objectives.
- Monitor daily backup and replication operations, investigate and resolve failures, and ensure high backup success rates.
- Perform and validate restores at file, application, VM, and system levels, including regular recovery testing.
- Protect workloads across VMware, Nutanix, Windows, and Linux platforms.
- Support disaster recovery and business continuity, including DR testing and offsite replication.
- Manage backup capacity planning and storage growth forecasting for on-premises and cloud repositories.
- Apply security best practices, including encryption and access control, to the backup infrastructure.
- Lead Veeam upgrades, migrations, and enhancement initiatives, and provide technical guidance on complex data protection designs.
- Automate routine tasks and reporting using PowerShell or the Veeam API.
- Generate and maintain reports, dashboards, and compliance documentation.
- Maintain clear, accurate runbooks and standard operating procedures.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and provide after-hours support as needed.
Benefits
- Competitive pay up to $65 per hour W2.
- Long-term assignment of 12+ months in a high-visibility role.
- Opportunity to shape and lead a modern enterprise backup environment.
- Work within a collaborative, forward-thinking infrastructure team.
- Exposure to backup, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience strategies.
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