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Backup Administrator (Hybrid)

Boston Children's Hospital
United States, Massachusetts, Boston
May 28, 2025
Job Posting Description At Boston Children's Hospital, the quality of our care - and our inclusive hospital working environment - lies in the diversity of our people. With patients from local communities and 160 countries around the world, we're committed to reflecting the spectrum of their cultures, while opening doors of opportunity for our team. Here, different talents pursue common goals. Voices are heard and ideas are shared. Join us, and discover how your unique contributions can change lives. Yours included. Position Summary: Responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining data backup and recovery solutions both on-premise and in the cloud. This role ensures data integrity, availability, and recoverability in alignment with business continuity and disaster recovery strategies. Key Responsibilities: Supports the backup environment by taking primary on-call responsibility and following up on correcting backup errors. Creates new backups as needed and ensures Operations schedules are accurate and up to date. Provides training to Operations staff in backup and policy. Identifies and designs solutions to meet backup and restore requirements. Maintains backup performance by troubleshooting issues, keeping abreast of technical innovations, and providing recommendations to take advantage of new technologies, as appropriate for the Data Center. Performs periodic restore and recovery tests. Manage backup infrastructure including media servers, storage devices, appliances, and cloud-based backup resources. Maintain documentation of backup configurations, procedures, and recovery runbooks. Minimum Qualifications Education High School Degree or equivalent is required, and a Bachelor's Degree in the field of Computer Science or a related field is preferred Experience 10 years of previous experience in Enterprise IT Backup and recovery operation is required. Strong knowledge of storage systems, virtualization (VMware) and cloud computing (AWS, Azure) is preferred Experience backing up Linux, Windows, SQL, Oracle and other critical business data is preferred Hands-on experience with enterprise backups software (e.g., Veritas Netbackup, Cohesity, Veeam, Commvault...etc) is preferred #LI-Hybrid Boston Children's Hospital requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and Flu, (unless you are eligible for a medical or religious exemption). Boston Children's Hospital is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability.