Data Protection Analyst

Experience: 8+ Years
Location: PAN India
Shift: 2nd Shift / 247

Looking for immediate Joiners Only, Full-time for one of our Client.

We are looking for a Data Protection & Cloud SME with strong expertise in enterprise backup, disaster recovery, storage protection, and cloud-tiering strategies. The candidate will assess backup resilience, retention, immutability, recovery readiness, and recommend improvements across on-premises and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and manage enterprise backup, archive, DR and data-protection solutions.
• Review retention policies, backup copies, immutability, WORM, air-gap and restore-test evidence.
• Define and validate RPO/RTO and conduct recovery/restore testing.
• Identify backup and cyber-resilience gaps and provide evidence-based recommendations.
• Design cloud-tiering and object-storage strategies across AWS, GCP and OCI.
• Work with hot/cold/archive tiers and optimize egress and data-retrieval costs.
• Support ransomware recovery and isolated/cyber-recovery initiatives.
• Manage backup lifecycle, licensing, renewals, tool overlap and capacity/BOM sizing.
• Contribute to automation, intelligent tiering and policy-driven data placement.
• Define data-protection standards, governance and operational best practices.