Experience:
- 3–7+ years of infrastructure administration experience.
- 2–5+ years of Veeam administration experience.
- Experience supporting enterprise backup, recovery, and DR environments.
- Experience with virtualization and cloud platforms.
Skills:
Required Technical Skills:
Core Technologies
- Veeam Backup & Replication
- Veeam ONE
- Veeam Data Cloud
- Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
Infrastructure Platforms
- VMware vSphere
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Windows Server
- Linux Administration
- Active Directory / Entra ID
Cloud & Storage
- Azure
- AWS
- SAN/NAS Storage
- Object Storage (S3, Azure Blob)
Security
- MFA
- Encryption
- RBAC
- CyberArk/PAM (where applicable)
- Backup immutability concepts
Scripting & Automation (Preferred)
- PowerShell
- REST APIs
- Basic automation and reporting scripting
Additional Skills:
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Disaster recovery and business continuity knowledge.
- Attention to detail.
- Documentation discipline.
- Stakeholder communication and incident management.
- Ability to work in high-availability production environments.
Sample KPI Measures
- Backup Success Rate (>98–99%)
- Restore Success Rate
- RPO/RTO Compliance
- Backup Infrastructure Availability
- Audit and Compliance Findings
- Incident Resolution Time
- Disaster Recovery Test Success Rate
Certifications/Education:
Preferred:
- Microsoft Azure Administrator
- VMware VCP
- ITIL Foundation
- Security-related certifications (Security+, CISSP, etc.)
What you will do
The Veeam Administrator is responsible for the design, implementation, administration, monitoring, and support of the organization's backup and recovery infrastructure using Veeam technologies. The role ensures the availability, integrity, recoverability, and security of enterprise data while supporting business continuity and disaster recovery requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Backup & Recovery Administration
- Administer Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure.
- Configure and manage backup jobs, backup copy jobs, and replication jobs.
- Create and maintain backup retention policies.
- Perform backup restores for servers, databases, applications, virtual machines, and Microsoft 365 workloads.
- Validate backup success and recovery readiness through regular testing.
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
- Develop and maintain disaster recovery procedures.
- Execute DR testing and recovery exercises.
- Support recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) requirements.
- Maintain documentation for recovery processes.
Infrastructure Management
- Manage backup repositories, proxies, mount servers, and backup storage.
- Monitor backup capacity and growth trends.
- Optimize backup performance and storage utilization.
- Integrate backup solutions with VMware, Hyper-V, Azure, AWS, or Microsoft 365 environments.
Monitoring & Incident Management
- Monitor backup jobs and infrastructure health.
- Investigate and resolve failed backups and restore issues.
- Perform root cause analysis for recurring incidents.
- Work with server, storage, network, and security teams to resolve issues.
Security & Compliance
- Implement RBAC and least-privilege access controls.
- Manage backup encryption and multi-factor authentication.
- Support immutable backup and ransomware protection strategies.
- Maintain audit logs and compliance evidence.
- Participate in security reviews and risk assessments.
Documentation & Governance
- Maintain operational documentation and runbooks.
- Develop backup standards and operational procedures.
- Support audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
- Participate in change management and CAB processes.