Senior Administrator - Veritas NetBackup, Symantec Backup Exec
Technology, Data & Digital · IT Infrastructure & Security · Systems Engineering
In short
This role is for a Senior Administrator specializing in Veritas NetBackup and Symantec Backup Exec, with a primary focus on backup and recovery (70-80%) and secondary focus on storage administration (20-30%). The position requires defining and implementing backup strategies, administering backup platforms, performing restores and DR tests, and providing basic support for storage systems like Dell EMC, Pure Storage, and NetApp. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in IT or equivalent experience, with at least 5 years in storage and backup administration within enterprise environments.
Responsibilities
- Define, implement, and operate backup and recovery strategies, ensuring effective data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Perform administration and support for backup platforms, including monitoring, troubleshooting, backup optimization, and recovery operations.
- Execute and validate backup restores and disaster recovery tests to ensure recovery objectives are met.
- Provide basic administration and operational support for storage systems, including Dell EMC, Pure Storage, and NetApp environments.
- Monitor backup and storage infrastructure health, capacity, performance, and availability.
- Support incident resolution, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensure adherence to security, compliance, retention, and data integrity requirements.
- Produce, maintain, and regularly update technical documentation, operational procedures, recovery runbooks, and knowledge articles.
- Participate in change management activities related to backup, storage, and infrastructure platforms.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, server, database, virtualization, and application teams to support business requirements.
- Support storage provisioning, capacity management, and routine maintenance activities.
- Identify opportunities for automation and operational improvements through scripting and process optimization.
- Assist in backup capacity planning, lifecycle management, and infrastructure upgrades.
- Ensure backup jobs, replication processes, and recovery services meet defined SLA, RPO, and RTO requirements.
- Provide on-call support and participate in major incident resolution when required.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of enterprise backup and recovery concepts, disaster recovery, and data protection.
- Experience with backup solutions such as Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, Avamar, or similar.
- Basic administration knowledge of Dell EMC, Pure Storage, and NetApp storage platforms.
- Understanding of SAN, NAS, storage provisioning, and capacity management concepts.
- Experience in troubleshooting infrastructure incidents and performing root cause analysis.
- Basic Knowledge of PowerShell, Shell scripting, or other automation tools.
- Familiarity with ITIL processes such as Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Request Management.
- Strong documentation, analytical, and communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in IT (or equivalent experience)
- At least 5 years of experience in storage and backup administration
- Experience in enterprise environments
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Autonomous, rigorous, and team-oriented
Benefits
- At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark.
- All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.
- Global technology company, home to more than 230,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products.
- Work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services.
- Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending September 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.
Skills
Veritas NetBackupSymantec Backup ExecVeeamCommvaultAvamarDell EMCPure StorageNetAppSANNASPowerShellShell scriptingITIL
#backup#storage#data protection#disaster recovery#business continuity#system administration#enterprise environments
About HCLTech
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HCLTech is a global technology company, home to 219,000+ people across 54 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering and cloud, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending September 2022 totaled $12.1 billion. To learn how we can supercharge progress for…
Company
HCLTechJob Posted
4 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
Bengaluru, India
Qualification
Bachelor
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