Backup Team Lead & System Administrator

As the Backup Team Lead, you will be responsible for managing a team of backup administrators and overseeing global backup and recovery operations. Your role involves ensuring a highly available, reliable, serviceable, secure, and efficient environment for our internal customers. You will be the service owner and accountable for backup operations, continual improvement, cost and vendor management. Your key duties and responsibilities include overseeing and managing all backup and recovery operations, proactively identifying and mitigating risks, serving as the company's subject matter expert for global backups and recovery environments, and maintaining a project-oriented approach. You will guide technical staff, drive projects and initiatives, provide expert support for complex problems, ensure operating standards are adhered to, identify opportunities for improvements, deliver technology evaluations and proposals, and perform capacity planning analysis and reporting. You should have at least 5+ years of experience in a high technical level position and 2+ years of experience leading a global team of backup administrators. It is essential to have knowledge of backup, recovery, and data availability processes, including experience in on-prem and Cloud environments. Strong communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and experience in creating processes and documentation are required. Additionally, familiarity with commercial backup offerings of major vendors, data protection for databases such as SQL Server and Oracle, multi-cloud environment backups, ITIL Service Design, and defining backup/recovery processes are desirable skills. Being adaptable to other IT infrastructure tasks within the defined business requirements and having a flexible approach to working hours in a global organization are also important aspects of this role.,