Cohesity NetBackup Administrator

Job Description

Summary

The Cohesity NetBackup Administrator is responsible for administering, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise backup and recovery environments. This role ensures data protection, disaster recovery readiness, and compliance for large scale systems supporting mission critical operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support Cohesity and Veritas NetBackup environments across enterprise systems.
• Install, configure, upgrade, and patch NetBackup master, media, and client servers.
• Design and maintain backup policies, storage lifecycle policies, replication, deduplication, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Monitor daily backup operations, resolve failures, manage capacity, and support tape and vaulting processes.
• Conduct disaster recovery testing, validation, and documentation updates.
• Troubleshoot complex backup and restore issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Support audit and compliance activities and generate operational and analytics reports.
• Collaborate with storage, server, virtualization, application, and security teams.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
• Participate in on call support rotations as required.

Required Qualifications

• Eight or more years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Four or more years of hands on experience administering Veritas NetBackup.
• Strong knowledge of NetBackup architecture including master and media servers, MSDP, SLP, and replication.
• Experience administering Linux and Windows server environments.
• Hands on experience managing backup appliances and virtualized environments.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery planning, auditing, and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an active Secret clearance.
• Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification.

Tech Stack

Cohesity, Veritas NetBackup, Linux, Windows Server, VMware, Hyper V, SAN Storage, Tape Libraries, PowerShell, Python & Bash

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive compensation aligned with market standards.
Health benefits, PTO, remote flexibility varies by client.

Work Schedule

Monday–Friday, flexible hours, occasional on-call (if applicable).

About the Client

Our client is a technology focused organization delivering mission critical IT solutions for government and defense customers.

Why Join the Team?

• This role offers the opportunity to support high impact government programs.
• Work hands on with enterprise scale backup and recovery technologies.
• Contribute to secure, reliable infrastructure supporting mission critical operations.

How to Apply

Submit your resume to people@ignitetalentpartners.com. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.