Backup Engineer

Backup Engineer (IBM Spectrum Protect)

Location: Geneva area, Switzerland (on-site)
Engagement: Full-time, long-term assignment (service contract)
Start: By January 2026 (earlier welcome)
Seniority: 8+ years in enterprise backup & recovery
Language: French or English (team environment)

The role

You will operate and evolve a large-scale enterprise backup platform based on IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM). Your mission: ensure availability, performance and security of backup services and associated tooling, and keep platforms compliant with internal standards. You’ll oversee daily operations, incident/request handling, upgrade planning, documentation, and risk management for backup services used across a complex environment.

What you’ll do

• Keep the Spectrum Protect estate in operational condition; supervise daily jobs and resolve incidents/requests.

• Design/optimise backup policies and schedules; proactively monitor capacity & trends to prevent issues.

• Administer integrations for database backups (Exchange, MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL) and TSM-VE for virtual environments.

• Manage Dell EMC Data Domain, tape libraries/robotics and tape technologies (LTO).

• Maintain secure configurations, apply updates/upgrades, and manage vulnerabilities.

• Write and update operational & technical procedures; support solution integrators.

Must-have skills

• IBM Spectrum Protect expert level (certified) and 8+ years’ experience.

• Strong knowledge of database backup/restore (Exchange, MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL).

• TSM-VE, Data Domain, tape libraries/robotics & tape technologies.

• Solid AIX OS skills and security awareness for backup platforms.

Important nice-to-haves

• Good knowledge of Linux and Windows client OS; exposure to Commvault.

• Storage notions: SAN block, NAS (PowerScale/Isilon), object (Scality).

• Monitoring with Splunk and/or Nagios.

   

Soft skills

Team player who shares knowledge; excellent written communication, synthesis and presentation skills; strong decision-making and risk management mindset; pragmatic, accountable.

Contract snapshot

Full-time (100%) service contract; long duration (up to 5 years per framework); award subject to budget approval.

How to apply: Send your CV highlighting Spectrum Protect certifications, scale of environments managed, database integrations you’ve handled, and Data Domain/tape/AIX experience.