Backup & Restore Engineer (m/f/diverse)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 7, 2026. Commerzbank scores A on the Alion truth index.
Your tasks
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining monitoring for backup and recovery systems, including dashboards, alerting, and reporting.
- Continuously developing and improving automation for backup and restore processes using Python, Ansible, REST, and GraphQL APIs.
- Working with Rubrik and Versity/ScoutAM for data backup and long-term retention; supporting the rollout and integration of Rubrik in the cloud.
- Supporting architects and senior engineers in designing backup and recovery solutions and implementing automation patterns.
- Assisting in gathering and analyzing requirements; providing technical input on backup and restoring solutions and supporting their implementation.
- Monitoring backup jobs and systems, analyzing errors, and driving incident resolution to maintain stable operations.
- Participating in performance tuning and optimization of backup and recovery environments regarding availability, performance, disaster recovery, and security.
- Contributing to proof-of-concept activities and evaluations of new backup technologies and solutions.
- Maintaining and updating technical documentation related to backup and recovery procedures, configurations, monitoring, and automation scripts.
- Collaborating closely with architects, system administrators, and application teams to ensure effective backup and restore strategies.
- Providing out-of-hours and on-call support in exceptional cases.
Your Profile
- Solid experience in enterprise data backup, ideally with Rubrik and Versity/ScoutAM.
- Good understanding of agent-based backup concepts (e.g., Exchange, MS SQL, Oracle) and snapshot-based backup and restore.
- Knowledge of Bare Metal Restore (BMR) concepts is a plus.
- Good knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Familiarity with ITIL-based IT service management processes is an advantage.
- Very good knowledge of Python programming language.
- Very good knowledge of implementing REST and GraphQL APIs; experience with the Rubrik GraphQL API and ServiceNow API is a strong advantage.
- Very good knowledge of software lifecycle.
- Strong knowledge of Ansible for automation and configuration management.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proactive mindset and willingness to drive improvements.
In return, we offer:
- Good work-life balance, including 25 days annual paid leave (increasing with 1 day per year up to 31 in total), flexible working hours, work-from-home and work from abroad opportunities;
- Luxury package of additional health and dental insurance;
- Food vouchers in the amount of EUR 80 monthly;
- 6 additional annual days off for exceptional circumstances
- Employee assistance program for psychological, financial and legal consultations;
- Multisport card;
- Annual contribution of EUR 153.39 net per child for a summer camp/school/kindergarten for children up to age of 15;
- Possibilities for building career-advancing skills by covering training/certification courses and conferences based on individual learning and development needs, access to an online learning platform;
- Opportunities for long-term professional development in a stable, 150-year-old company while contributing to the vision of a new, just starting Digital Technology Center;
- Friendly and supportive multicultural environment, open to new opinions and ideas.
Commerzbank is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, national origin, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, disability, age, or any other characteristics.
The company
Commerzbank is a leading international commercial bank with branches and offices in almost 50 countries. The world is changing, becoming digital, and so are we. We are leaving the traditional bank behind us, and we are choosing to move forward as a digital enterprise.
As part of this strategy, Commerzbank continues the expansion of its Digital Technology Center in Sofia, Bulgaria. We need motivated people who will join us on this journey, and we are looking for a Backup & Restore Engineer - Automation in our Data Center Base Infrastructure team.
As a Backup & Restore Engineer - Automation, you will design, implement, and continuously enhance automation and monitoring for our enterprise-wide backup and recovery environment, ensuring secure, reliable, and efficient protection of business-critical data.
You will work in an infrastructure team with a strong API-first mindset and a clear focus on end-to-end automation. Our target is to automate backup and recovery processes as much as possible, leveraging scripting, configuration management, and modern APIs. A key strategic initiative is the rollout of Rubrik in the cloud, integrating cloud-native capabilities into our backup and recovery landscape and supporting Commerzbank’s broader digital and cloud transformation.
Contact
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