Backup Administrator – Commvault / Veeam

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Backup Administrator to join Astek Middle East’s Data Center Operations team in Saudi Arabia. The role focuses on managing enterprise‑wide backup and recovery solutions, ensuring data protection, business continuity and high availability across critical systems.

Key responsibilities

• Administer and monitor backup and recovery operations using Commvault, handling files, virtual machines, databases and applications.
• Validate backups, execute restore requests and troubleshoot failures to meet SLA targets.
• Configure and maintain Commvault components such as CommServe, Media Agents, storage and backup policies, libraries and deduplication.
• Perform upgrades, patching and lifecycle management of the backup environment.
• Monitor storage utilization, backup performance and deduplication efficiency.
• Support disaster‑recovery planning, backup testing and business‑continuity initiatives.
• Integrate and manage cloud‑based backup storage solutions.
• Produce operational, compliance and root‑cause analysis reports.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, storage, virtualization and database teams.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT or a related field.
• 3–5 years of hands‑on experience administering Commvault backup and recovery solutions.
• Proven experience with backup and restore operations in physical and virtual environments.
• Experience working in enterprise data‑center settings.

Required skills

• Commvault Backup & Recovery
• Windows Server Administration
• Linux Administration
• VMware or Hyper‑V integration
• SQL Server and Oracle database backup
• SAN and NAS storage
• Deduplication technologies
• Cloud backup integration
• Backup lifecycle management
• Security and compliance
• Disaster Recovery and RPO/RTO concepts
• Backup monitoring and troubleshooting
• Documentation and reporting