Senior Commvault Backup Administrator at Kyndryl in Chennai

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Who We Are At Kyndryl, we run and reimagine the mission-critical technology systems that drive advantage for the world’s leading businesses. We are at the heart of progress; with proven expertise and a continuous flow of AI-powered insight, enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and a lasting competitive edge. For our people—Kyndryls—that means doing purposeful work that powers human progress. Join us and experience a flexible, supportive environment where your well-being is prioritized and your potential can thrive. The Role Your Role: As a Senior Commvault Backup Administrator, you will be responsible for the day-to-day administration, monitoring, support, and optimization of enterprise backup and recovery environments. You will ensure the reliability, availability, and compliance of backup services while supporting restore requests, incident resolution, capacity management, and continuous improvement initiatives across enterprise infrastructure environments. What Will You Do: Administer and support enterprise Commvault backup environments, including backup policies, schedules, storage policies, retention settings, and client management. Monitor backup operations, identify failures and performance issues, and ensure timely resolution in accordance with service level agreements. Execute, validate, and communicate backup recovery and restore activities, including file, folder, virtual machine, and application restores where applicable. Support onboarding and offboarding of backup clients, including agent deployment, prerequisite validation, backup configuration, and verification activities. Participate in incident, problem, and change management processes, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and implementation of corrective actions. Perform routine platform health checks, capacity monitoring, housekeeping activities, and maintenance of operational documentation. Ensure compliance with backup retention policies, audit requirements, governance standards, and business continuity requirements. Collaborate with infrastructure, application, storage, security, and operations teams to maintain service reliability and improve backup operational efficiency. Your Future at Kyndryl Every position at Kyndryl offers a way forward to grow your career. We have opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in all four major platforms. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here. Who You Are You’re good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important – you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused – someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you’re open and borderless – naturally inclusive in how you work with others. Required Technical and Professional Experience: 5+ years of experience in enterprise backup and recovery operations, with strong hands-on experience administering Commvault Backup & Recovery environments. Proven experience managing Commvault policies, schedules, storage policies, client configurations, backup operations, and recovery processes. Strong understanding of backup and disaster recovery concepts, including RPO, RTO, retention policies, incremental backups, synthetic full backups, and deduplication. Working knowledge of Windows and Linux server environments and their backup and recovery requirements. Experience performing backup monitoring, troubleshooting, incident management, restore validation, and operational support activities. Familiarity with enterprise infrastructure environments, including storage platforms, virtualization technologies, and application backup requirements. Experience working within ITIL-based service management frameworks, including Incident, Problem, and Change