About the Role Specialized Enterprise Systems (SES) is hiring a Backup Engineer (L2/L3) at a client site in Saudi Arabia. The role is responsible for the administration, monitoring, maintenance, and optimization of enterprise backup and recovery infrastructure within a data center environment. The role ensures the successful protection, retention, recovery, and availability of critical business data while providing advanced technical support, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery capabilities. Key Responsibilities * Administer, monitor, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery platforms to ensure successful and reliable data protection operations * Perform L2/L3 troubleshooting and root cause analysis for backup failures, restore issues, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure-related incidents * Configure and manage backup policies, schedules, retention periods, replication, and archive processes in accordance with business and compliance requirements * Execute and validate backup, restore, and recovery operations for physical servers, virtual machines, databases, applications, and file systems * Monitor daily backup jobs, investigate exceptions, and ensure compliance with backup success rate and SLA targets * Implement and support disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity solutions, including backup replication and recovery testing * Perform regular backup recovery drills and restore validation tests to ensure data recoverability and operational readiness Requirements * 5+ years of experience in enterprise backup and recovery * Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field * Willing to relocate to the client site in Saudi Arabia within 2 months * Standard shifts with 24x7 on-call rotation Skills and Technologies * Veritas NetBackup * Commvault * Veeam Backup & Replication * Dell EMC NetWorker * IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) * Rubrik, Cohesity * Dell Data Domain * Oracle RMAN * Microsoft SQL Server Backup * VMware vSphere, Hyper-V * Tape Libraries, Cloud Backup Solutions (Azure, AWS) Preferred Certifications Veritas, Commvault, Veeam, Dell EMC, Microsoft