Specialist, Backup & Resiliency

Calgary - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 16 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Nutrien is a leading provider of crop inputs and services and our business results make a positive impact on the world. Our purpose Feeding the Future is the reason we come to work each day. Were guided by our culture of care and our core values: safety inclusion integrity and results. When we say we care we mean it. Were creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels safe has a sense of belonging trusts one another and acts with integrity.

Through the collective expertise of our nearly 26000 employees we operate a world-class network of production distribution and ag retail facilities. We efficiently serve growers needs and strive to provide a more profitable sustainable and secure future for all stakeholders. Help us raise the expectation of what an agriculture company can be and grow your career with Nutrien.

The Backup and Resiliency Technical Specialist is responsible for the stability scalability and continuous improvement of the enterprise backup and recovery platform. This role acts as thetechnical escalation point for backup services provides architectural and capacity guidance for new backup deployments and partners closely with Disaster Recovery (DR) Infrastructure Cloud and Application teams to ensure the organizations data protection and recovery posture aligns with business and risk requirements.

In addition to deep technical expertise this role contributes to the maturity of backup and disaster recovery practices through automation reporting documentation and standards development.

What Youll Do:

Backup Platform Ownership & Technical Leadership
- - Support operational teams to ensure enterprise backups are enabled running successfully and free of systemic errors across all supported workloads.
  - Act as the highest-level technical escalation for backup and recovery issues including complex failures and restore scenarios.
  - Provide design sizing capacity and architectural guidance for new backup use cases and platform enhancements.
  - Partner with infrastructure cloud and application teams to onboard new systems into backup services in alignment with standards and best practices.
  - Identify risks gaps and improvement opportunities in the backup environment and drive remediation.
Automation Monitoring & Reporting
- - Design and implement automation to improve backup operations validation and reporting.
  - Develop and enhance health compliance and capacity reporting to support operational teams and leadership visibility.
  - Support continuous optimization of backup performance cost efficiency and recoverability.
Disaster Recovery & Resiliency Enablement
- - Act as a technical partner to the Disaster Recovery program supporting backup-related DR requirements and recovery strategies.
  - Contribute to the development and maintenance of application DR plans runbooks and recovery artifacts as related to backup systems.
  - Support DR exercises technical validations and quality reviews to ensure backup and recovery expectations can be met during real incidents.
  - Ensure backup and recovery practices align with organizational risk tolerance policy and regulatory requirements.
Documentation Standards & Continuous Improvement
- - Maintain accurate current technical documentation for backup platforms architectures and operational procedures.
  - Contribute to the evolution of backup and DR standards patterns and guidance.
  - Proactively evaluate new technologies features and approaches to improve data protection and resiliency.

What Youll Bring:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in IT operations or infrastructure roles.
Strong server administration experience across Windows and Linux platforms.
Hands-on experience with virtualized and cloud environments including VMware AWS and Azure.
Working knowledge of database backup and recovery concepts including platforms such as SQL Server Oracle and SAP HANA.
Experience with scripting and automation using languages such as Python Bash or similar.
Proven ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and lead resolution efforts.
Experience supporting enterprise-scale backup platforms and data protection solutions such as cloud-native solutions in AWS and Azure Veeam and Cohesity DataProtect.
AIX and IBM POWER experience would be an asset.
Understanding of disaster recovery concepts recovery objectives (RPO/RTO) and application resiliency patterns.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think creatively and challenge existing approaches.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills able to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement automation and operational excellence.
Experience supporting and interacting with teams that are geographically distributed.
Strong understanding of data protection workflows immutability replication and cloud archive/tiering.
Experience performing restores (file-level VM-level application-aware).
Ability to optimize cluster performance storage utilization and resiliency.
Knowledge of Veeam backup job configuration repositories retention and copy jobs.
Familiarity with Veeam features such as SureBackup Instant Recovery WAN acceleration and immutable repositories.
Understanding of Veeam Availability Suite components.
Strong understanding of data protection workflows immutability replication and cloud archive/tiering.
A working understanding of database backups (SQL SAP Oracle).
Experience with multi-site backup strategies and DR design.
Knowledge of Cohesity DataProtect is an asset including features like DataLock Fort Knox and Helios.
Ability to manage and optimize large-scale backup environments across hybrid cloud (Azure/AWS).

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The estimated salary that Indeed Glassdoor and LinkedIn lists does not represent Nutriens compensation structure. Nutrien is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.

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Required Experience:

Nutrien is a leading provider of crop inputs and services and our business results make a positive impact on the world. Our purpose Feeding the Future is the reason we come to work each day. Were guided by our culture of care and our core values: safety inclusion integrity and results. When we say w...

In addition to deep technical expertise this role contributes to the maturity of backup and disaster recovery practices through automation reporting documentation and standards development.

What Youll Do:

Backup Platform Ownership & Technical Leadership
- - Support operational teams to ensure enterprise backups are enabled running successfully and free of systemic errors across all supported workloads.
  - Act as the highest-level technical escalation for backup and recovery issues including complex failures and restore scenarios.
  - Provide design sizing capacity and architectural guidance for new backup use cases and platform enhancements.
  - Partner with infrastructure cloud and application teams to onboard new systems into backup services in alignment with standards and best practices.
  - Identify risks gaps and improvement opportunities in the backup environment and drive remediation.
Automation Monitoring & Reporting
- - Design and implement automation to improve backup operations validation and reporting.
  - Develop and enhance health compliance and capacity reporting to support operational teams and leadership visibility.
  - Support continuous optimization of backup performance cost efficiency and recoverability.
Disaster Recovery & Resiliency Enablement
- - Act as a technical partner to the Disaster Recovery program supporting backup-related DR requirements and recovery strategies.
  - Contribute to the development and maintenance of application DR plans runbooks and recovery artifacts as related to backup systems.
  - Support DR exercises technical validations and quality reviews to ensure backup and recovery expectations can be met during real incidents.
  - Ensure backup and recovery practices align with organizational risk tolerance policy and regulatory requirements.
Documentation Standards & Continuous Improvement
- - Maintain accurate current technical documentation for backup platforms architectures and operational procedures.
  - Contribute to the evolution of backup and DR standards patterns and guidance.
  - Proactively evaluate new technologies features and approaches to improve data protection and resiliency.

What Youll Bring:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in IT operations or infrastructure roles.
Strong server administration experience across Windows and Linux platforms.
Hands-on experience with virtualized and cloud environments including VMware AWS and Azure.
Working knowledge of database backup and recovery concepts including platforms such as SQL Server Oracle and SAP HANA.
Experience with scripting and automation using languages such as Python Bash or similar.
Proven ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and lead resolution efforts.
Experience supporting enterprise-scale backup platforms and data protection solutions such as cloud-native solutions in AWS and Azure Veeam and Cohesity DataProtect.
AIX and IBM POWER experience would be an asset.
Understanding of disaster recovery concepts recovery objectives (RPO/RTO) and application resiliency patterns.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think creatively and challenge existing approaches.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills able to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement automation and operational excellence.
Experience supporting and interacting with teams that are geographically distributed.
Strong understanding of data protection workflows immutability replication and cloud archive/tiering.
Experience performing restores (file-level VM-level application-aware).
Ability to optimize cluster performance storage utilization and resiliency.
Knowledge of Veeam backup job configuration repositories retention and copy jobs.
Familiarity with Veeam features such as SureBackup Instant Recovery WAN acceleration and immutable repositories.
Understanding of Veeam Availability Suite components.
Strong understanding of data protection workflows immutability replication and cloud archive/tiering.
A working understanding of database backups (SQL SAP Oracle).
Experience with multi-site backup strategies and DR design.
Knowledge of Cohesity DataProtect is an asset including features like DataLock Fort Knox and Helios.
Ability to manage and optimize large-scale backup environments across hybrid cloud (Azure/AWS).