Senior Rubrik Backup & Recovery Engineer

Location: Springfield, VA · Duration: 6 months

About the Role

Support enterprise backup, recovery, and data protection services. Implement, administer, monitor, and maintain Rubrik backup solutions across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Provide technical expertise for backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain the Rubrik backup environment.
• Configure backup policies, retention schedules, and recovery requirements.
• Monitor backup jobs, system health, storage capacity, and platform performance.
• Perform backup restoration and recovery testing.
• Troubleshoot backup and recovery issues.
• Support Rubrik software upgrades and maintenance activities.
• Perform vulnerability remediation for the Rubrik environment.
• Implement and onboard new workloads into the backup platform, including servers, applications, databases, and cloud workloads.
• Support migration of workloads from existing backup solutions to Rubrik.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, storage, cloud, security, and application teams.
• Investigate and resolve backup-related incidents and operational issues.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity requirements.
• Ensure backup and recovery solutions meet enterprise data protection requirements.

Documentation, Knowledge Transfer & Handover

• Create and maintain solution design documents, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), runbooks, and support documentation.
• Document backup architecture, policies, retention requirements, and recovery procedures.
• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions for operations and support teams.
• Support Transition to Operations (TTO) activities and participate in operational readiness reviews.
• Provide post-implementation support.
• Ensure successful handover of services to Operations.
• Ensure all project deliverables, documentation, and support processes are completed before project closure.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Backup & Recovery Administration experience.
• Hands-on experience with Rubrik Backup & Recovery solutions.
• Strong knowledge of backup concepts, recovery concepts, disaster recovery, and data protection.
• Experience with Windows, Linux, VMware, and enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Experience implementing and supporting enterprise backup solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting and technical documentation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Rubrik Cloud Vault.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments.
• ITIL Foundation Certification.
• Rubrik certification or equivalent backup technology certification.

Core Technical Areas

• Rubrik Backup & Recovery
• Rubrik Cloud Vault
• Enterprise Backup Administration
• Backup & Recovery
• Disaster Recovery
• Business Continuity
• Windows, Linux, VMware
• Microsoft Azure
• Hybrid Cloud
• Backup Migration
• Backup Policy & Retention Management
• Recovery Testing
• Infrastructure Operations
• ITIL