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With more than $1 trillion in assets under administration, we deliver end-to-end solutions and exceptional service to meet our clients’ needs.\nFor more information about Citco, please visit www.citco.com\nRole Summary\nThe Senior Backup Administrator is responsible for designing, administering, monitoring, and improving enterprise backup and recovery services across physical, virtual, cloud, and database environments. This role ensures that critical business data is protected, recoverable, and aligned with agreed recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives. The position requires strong technical expertise, operational discipline, and the ability to support incident response, disaster recovery testing, audit readiness, and continuous service improvement.\nWe are looking for a Senior Backup Administrator to join our IT Operations team and lead the management of enterprise backup and recovery services. The ideal candidate will have strong experience supporting backup platforms, troubleshooting complex recovery issues, improving data protection controls, and ensuring recoverability for business-critical systems. This role is suited for a technically strong administrator who can operate independently, support operational excellence, and contribute to business continuity and cyber resilience initiatives.\nThis role may require participation in after-hours maintenance windows, disaster recovery exercises, and scheduled on-call support. The successful candidate should be comfortable working in a fast-paced IT operations environment and collaborating with global or cross-functional teams.\n Your Role\nYou will administer and maintain enterprise backup platforms, policies, schedules, storage targets, and retention configurations.\nMonitor daily backup jobs, investigate failures, perform root cause analysis, and drive timely remediation.\nPerform file-level, server-level, virtual machine, database, and application recovery activities as required.\nDesign and validate backup and recovery procedures to meet defined business continuity, disaster recovery, RPO, and RTO requirements.\nSupport regular restore testing, disaster recovery exercises, and evidence collection for audit and compliance purposes.\nManage backup capacity, deduplication, storage utilization, replication, archiving, and lifecycle management.\nImplement and maintain secure backup practices, including access control, encryption, immutability, and ransomware-resilient recovery approaches.\nDevelop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, knowledge base articles, technical diagrams, and standard operating procedures.\nCoordinate with infrastructure, database, application, security, network, and vendor teams to resolve backup-related incidents and service requests.\nParticipate in change management, incident management, problem management, and on-call support rotations as required.\nIdentify opportunities to automate repetitive backup administration tasks using scripting, orchestration tools and API integration.\nProvide technical guidance and mentoring to junior backup or infrastructure administrators.\n About You\nRequired Qualifications\nYou must have a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.\n5-8 or more years of hands-on experience administering enterprise backup and recovery platforms.\nStrong experience with backup technologies such as Veritas NetBackup, NBU Flex Appliance, Commvault, Veeam, Rubrik, NinjaOne, or similar platforms.\nExperience supporting Windows, Linux, virtualization platforms, enterprise storage, and database backup integrations.\nProven ability to design optimal database backup strategies, including backup frequency, retention, recovery models, and validation approaches aligned with business RPO, RTO, compliance, and resiliency requirements.\nGood understanding of backup methodologies, retention policies, disaster recovery concepts, and data protection best practices.\nExperience troubleshooting backup failures, storage issues, network connectivity, performance bottlenecks, and restore problems.\nFamiliarity with IT service management processes, including incident, change, and problem management.\nStrong documentation, communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.\nPreferred Skills and Experience\nExperience with cloud backup and archival services such as Microsoft Azure or AWS.\nExperience with immutable backup, cyber recovery vaults, and ransomware recovery strategies.\nExperience with scripting or automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar tools.\nExposure to enterprise monitoring tools and reporting dashboards.\nKnowledge of storage technologies, tape libraries, SAN/NAS environments, deduplication appliances, MSDP within NetBackup Flex Appliance storage shelves, and object storage or blob-based storage.\nRelevant certifications such as ITIL Foundation, Microsoft, VMware, Linux, cloud, storage, or vendor-specific backup certifications.\nKey Performance Indicators\nBackup job success rate and failure remediation time.\nSuccessful completion of scheduled restore tests and disaster recovery exercises.\nCompliance with defined RPO and RTO targets.\nTimely completion of incident, service request, and change tickets.\nAccuracy and completeness of backup documentation, reporting, and audit evidence.\nCapacity utilization trends and proactive storage planning outcomes.\nSalary Range: CAD $80,000 to CAD $130,000\nThis posting is for an existing vacancy.\nOur Benefits\nYour well-being is of paramount importance to us, and central to our success. We provide a range of benefits, training and education support, and flexible working arrangements to help you achieve success in your career while balancing personal needs. Ask us about specific benefits in your location.\nWe embrace diversity, prioritizing the hiring of people from diverse backgrounds. Our inclusive culture is a source of pride and strength, fostering innovation and mutual respect.\nCitco welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. 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