A major public sector monetary authority is replacing its legacy IBM TSM (Storage Protect) platform with a modern data protection solution. The Backup Consultant will lead a proof of concept to evaluate Veeam and Commvault, validate disaster recovery approaches, and produce the production roadmap for a fully automated backup environment.
The Mission
On Site 2/5 day/week
The organisation operates an enterprise backup landscape on IBM TSM and has chosen a structured evaluation to define its next production standard. The technical landscape includes tier-1 backup software, SAN/NAS storage arrays, virtualised server farms and strict retention and immutability requirements. The POC will assess performance, security and recoverability at scale and the outcome will set the production architecture.
You will own the end-to-end POC and the transition plan from test to production. Day-to-day work includes designing and deploying a production-grade test environment, executing performance and restore benchmarks, running disaster recovery simulations and validating features such as data immutability, air-gapping and cross-platform recovery. You will hand over a POC test matrix and a high-level production roadmap to the internal operations team.
Your Responsibilities
- Lead the proof of concept for Veeam and Commvault and deliver a clear recommendation that balances technical fit and operational constraints.
- Design and build a production-grade test environment that mirrors current IBM TSM production characteristics and storage topology.
- Execute performance and restore benchmarks, measure backup/restore windows and document throughput and resource usage.
- Conduct disaster recovery simulations and validate automated recovery orchestration, cross-platform restores and immutability protections.
- Produce deliverables: a detailed POC test matrix, technical evaluation report and a staged production roadmap with cutover considerations.
- Transfer knowledge and tools to the operations team, including runbooks, automation scripts and monitoring checks.
Your Profile
Essential Skills
- Proven, senior hands-on experience with enterprise backup and recovery solutions, including Veeam, Commvault and IBM TSM.
- Strong practical knowledge of disaster recovery planning and automated recovery orchestration.
- Solid understanding of storage technologies (SAN, NAS), backup target architectures and retention/immutability concepts.
- Experience with monitoring backup environments, interpreting metrics and tuning performance.
- Demonstrable IT project experience delivering POCs, technical evaluations and production transition plans.
- Clear consultant-style communication, autonomy in execution and experience collaborating with operations and security teams.