Commvault Backup Engineer

Role & responsibilities

Role Overview

The Commvault Backup Engineer is responsible for providing advanced operational support, troubleshooting, and administration of enterprise backup environments leveraging Commvault solutions. This role involves resolving escalated issues, maintaining backup infrastructure, and ensuring data protection and recovery processes meet organizational requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operate, maintain, and optimize enterprise backup environments using Commvault.
• Troubleshoot and resolve L2-level incidents, including backup failures, restore issues, and infrastructure errors.
• Analyze daily backup jobs, identify root causes for failures, and implement corrective actions to maximize backup success rates.
• Perform configuration changes, patching, and upgrades for Commvault environments as per design and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (storage, virtualization, network) to resolve complex issues and support integrated backup solutions.
• Provide escalation support for L1 engineers and act as a technical point of contact for managed service providers and customers.
• Ensure backup and restore operations are aligned with data protection and disaster recovery strategies.
• Maintain and update documentation for backup procedures, configurations, and incident resolutions.
• Participate in capacity planning, utilization analysis, and optimization of backup storage resources.
• Support integration of various storage technologies (SAN, NAS, Object Storage) with Commvault backup systems.
• Prepare and deliver regular status and progress reports on backup environment health and activities.

Preferred candidate profile

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of IT experience, with at least 2 years in Commvault backup administration and support.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise-scale Commvault deployments, including backup, recovery, and archiving.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for backup software, tape libraries, disk-to-disk backup systems, and SAN connectivity.
• Familiarity with storage protocols (NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FC) and integration with backup solution.
• General knowledge of networking fundamentals and operating systems (Windows, Linux).
• Experience with capacity planning, utilization analysis, and backup optimization.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and customer service skills.
• Ability to work in a 24/7 or rotational shift environment as required.

Preferred Skills

• Certifications in Commvault or other enterprise backup solutions.
• Experience with automation/scripting (PowerShell, Python, Shell) is a plus.
• ITIL Foundation or experience in ITIL-based operational environments.
• Exposure to other backup solutions (Veeam, Cohesity, Veritas NetBackup) and storage technologies (NetApp, Dell EMC, Data Domain).