# Senior Lead Associate - Backup, Resilience and DR

**Company**: Davies
**Location**: Viman Nagar, Maharashtra
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Senior Lead Associate - Backup, Resilience and DR is the service owner and senior technical authority for enterprise backup, recovery, disaster recovery and technology resilience across the Davies Group estate.

Reporting to the Manager - Security, Resilience and DR, the role leads the strategy, governance, engineering direction and operational assurance required to protect critical services and data across on-premises, cloud and SaaS environments.

The role works across multiple teams, including Hosting, Cloud, Network, Security Operations, IAM, Digital Workplace, Service Management, Architecture, Applications, Data, Risk, Compliance, Business Continuity, Procurement and third-party providers.

Key responsibilities include:

- Strategy, ownership and governance: Own the group-wide backup, recovery, disaster recovery and technology resilience service roadmap, operating model, standards and control framework.

- Backup and recovery leadership: Provide technical and service leadership for enterprise backup platforms across on-premises, Azure and other approved cloud or SaaS environments.

- Disaster recovery and resilience: Own the technology DR lifecycle, including service dependency mapping, recovery strategies, DR plans, runbooks, exercise schedules, test scenarios, evidence and post-exercise improvement plans.

- Security, risk and compliance: Work with Security Operations and IAM to protect backup administration, credentials and recovery environments using least privilege, segregation of duties and strong authentication.

- Service performance and continual improvement: Define and report meaningful KPIs and KRIs, including backup success, restore success, protection coverage, recovery objective attainment, test completion, open risks and remediation ageing.

- Stakeholder and leadership communication: Provide concise, evidence-based updates to senior leadership on resilience posture, test outcomes, material risks, incidents, investment needs and delivery progress.

Requirements:

- 9-15 years of relevant experience in enterprise infrastructure, backup, recovery, disaster recovery or technology resilience.

- Proven track record of leading backup, resilience and DR capabilities in a large, complex or global organisation.

- Demonstrable experience defining and governing enterprise backup and recovery strategies across hybrid environments.

- Strong knowledge of enterprise backup architecture, recovery patterns, retention, encryption, immutability, air-gapped or isolated recovery, replication and capacity management.

- Strong working knowledge of Commvault Cloud / Backup & Recovery for Azure, Veeam and Metallic, or comparable enterprise platforms.

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## Skills

### Required
- enterprise backup architecture
- recovery patterns
- retention
- encryption
- immutability
- air-gapped or isolated recovery
- replication
- capacity management
- Commvault Cloud / Backup & Recovery for Azure
- Veeam
- Metallic
- Microsoft Azure
- Windows Server
- Linux
- VMware
- RPO
- RTO
- service criticality
- dependency mapping
- recovery sequencing
- DR testing
- cyber-recovery principles

### Nice to have
- Azure Site Recovery
- cloud-native backup services
- recovery automation
- PowerShell
- Python
- APIs
- infrastructure-as-code
- workflow automation
- ITIL practices
- ISO 22301
- ISO/IEC 27001
- NIST guidance
- AIOps
- anomaly detection
- predictive analytics

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