Operate backup, restoration and disaster-recovery capabilities across the approved infrastructure and platform scope. The role maintains recoverability evidence and coordinates recovery exercises while business continuity ownership and recovery priorities remain with the Entity.
• Administer backup policies, schedules, repositories, retention and monitoring for approved systems.
• Investigate failed jobs, perform approved remediation and report unresolved risks and capacity constraints.
• Plan and execute restoration tests and maintain evidence of recoverability.
• Support disaster-recovery planning, technical runbooks, failover/failback procedures and simulation exercises.
• Track recovery objectives and dependencies as confirmed by Entity service and business owners.
• Maintain backup inventories, job reports, exception registers and recovery documentation.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, cloud, database, application, security and business continuity teams.
• Participate in agreed on-call or planned out-of-hours recovery activities.
Requirements
• Minimum 5 years of enterprise backup and disaster-recovery experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Veeam, Commvault or an equivalent enterprise backup platform.
• Practical understanding of RPO, RTO, retention, immutable/offline backup and recovery validation.
• VMCE, Commvault certification, BCI/DRI qualification or equivalent preferred.
• Ability to produce auditable reports and step-by-step recovery procedures.
• Previous experience supporting UAE government or regulated environments.
• Working knowledge of TDRA infrastructure and disaster-recovery coordination processes.
• Experience covering physical, virtual, cloud and database backup workloads.
• Backup exceptions are detected, owned and resolved or risk-accepted through the agreed process.
• Restoration tests provide documented evidence of recoverability.
• Recovery runbooks remain current and usable during exercises or incidents.
• Dependencies affecting recovery objectives are recorded and escalated.
Blackstone eIT is a leading System Integrator (SI) and Independent Software Vendor (ISV), globally dedicated to engineering transformative enterprise solutions and intelligent design. Our core focus is on delivering innovative, customized technology that enables clients to evolve into digital-first, data-informed, and AI-enabled organizations.
Ultimately, we are driven by a singular vision: a world where technology seamlessly integrates across all business processes and government services, thereby empowering both businesses and communities to thrive in an increasingly digitized world.
Our mission is to empower customers to harness the full potential of intelligent technologies, fundamentally transforming their operations across various industries. This success is driven by our commitment to helping clients build and implement reliable, cost-effective, and scalable solutions designed to optimize business operations, enhance customer experience, and accelerate sustained business growth.
