Backup Administrator – Veeam III

Role: Backup Administrator – Veeam III

Work Arrangement: Onsite at Newport Beach, CA

Engagement Type: 12-Month Contract

About the Role

Our client, a leading financial services and insurance enterprise, is seeking an experienced Backup Administrator to join their Infrastructure Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day administration, optimization, and monitoring of an enterprise-scale backup and recovery ecosystem.

A primary focus of this position is architecting and maintaining secure, immutable, object-storage-based data protection solutions that enhance ransomware resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity across multi-cloud and data center environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain the enterprise Veeam Backup & Replication platform, including backup and replication jobs, repositories, proxies, and related infrastructure components.
• Configure and oversee scale-out backup repositories (SOBR) and object storage targets (S3-compatible, Azure Blob, or on-premises object storage) for tiering, capacity planning, and long-term retention.
• Implement and enforce data immutability, including object-lock controls and Linux hardened repositories, to defend critical data against accidental loss, corruption, and cyber threats.
• Establish, optimize, and document backup schedules, retention rules, and replication policies aligned with organizational Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).
• Monitor daily backup workflows, proactively resolve job failures, and ensure high-availability success rates that satisfy established SLAs.
• Execute and validate routine and ad-hoc recovery drills, covering file-level, application-specific, virtual machine, and full bare-metal restorations.
• Protect diverse enterprise workloads spanning VMware, Nutanix, Windows Server, Linux, and cloud-native application environments.
• Partner with cross-functional infrastructure and security teams on disaster recovery planning, offsite replication, and periodic ransomware recovery simulations.
• Automate operational health checks, routine administrative tasks, and compliance auditing via PowerShell scripting or the Veeam REST API.
• Generate capacity forecasts, utilization dashboards, and audit evidence for platform readiness and regulatory compliance.
• Participate in scheduled on-call rotations to deliver operational and recovery support for critical infrastructure events.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise backup administration, disaster recovery, or storage and data protection operations.
• Demonstrated expertise administering Veeam Backup & Replication within enterprise environments (proxies, repositories, WAN accelerators, and orchestration).
• Hands-on experience configuring object storage targets (AWS S3, Azure Blob, or equivalent S3-compatible systems) and Scale-Out Backup Repositories (SOBR).
• Working knowledge of Linux hardened repositories, immutability, and object-lock mechanisms for ransomware protection.
• Experience protecting hybrid infrastructure across VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, Windows Server, and enterprise Linux distributions.
• Proficiency in PowerShell or shell scripting to automate administrative, monitoring, and reporting tasks.
• Strong diagnostic, root cause analysis, and disaster recovery execution skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) or Veeam Certified Architect (VMCA) credential.
• Experience executing major Veeam platform upgrades, appliance deployments, and legacy backup platform migrations.
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring platforms such as Grafana, Splunk, or Veeam ONE.
• Background supporting secure data protection operations within highly regulated industries (., financial services or insurance).

Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available to qualified candidates who meet eligibility requirements.