Backup Engineer

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%)

• 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.