Jobdescription
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%)
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.
Engineer Backup • Geneva