Junior Backup

Agile Lab is a company founded in 2014 with the mission to create value for its customers in data-intensive environments through customisable solutions that establish performance-driven processes, sustainable architectures and automated platforms based on data governance best practices. Having delivered over 100 successful Elite Data Engineering initiatives, we have used this experience to create Witboost: a modular, technology-agnostic platform that enables modern organisations to discover, value and produce their data in both traditional environments and fully compliant Data Mesh architectures. With a highly skilled team of over 300 data engineers based in Europe, Agile Lab helps organisations with their data-driven transformation.

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The opportunity:

As a Junior Backup Specialist, the role involves supporting the Backup team in the daily operation of Veritas NetBackup, helping to ensure the continuity of backup and restore services. Responsibilities include working with procedures and runbooks while progressively gaining autonomy in troubleshooting, policy management, and application restore activities, as well as acquiring expertise in backup solutions for Microsoft Azure and AWS.

Salary and job classification

• Base salary:€26K - €40K

• CCNL:Commercio

• Ladder: Backup Specialist I

Responsibilities

• Daily monitoring of jobs in Veritas NetBackup and alert management;

• Initial guided troubleshooting of common errors;

• Execution of standard restores (files/VM/simple DB) with supervision;

• Basic system operations on backup targets:

- On Linux: services, logs, permissions, filesystem, cron, firewall;

- On Windows: services, Event Viewer, volumes/VSS, Task Scheduler, firewall;
- Network checks (DNS, ports, routing) and disk space.

• Support for policy/SLP based on templates; opening of changes/tickets;

• Collaboration with DBA/Sysadmin for application-consistent backups;

• Updating documentation and operational reports (success rate, capacity).

Requirements (Prerequisites)

Basic system administration skills (mandatory)

• Linux: basic commands, services (systemd), log management, permissions, mount, SSH;

• Windows Server: services, VSS, Event Viewer, shares/NTFS permissions;

• Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, ports/firewall, concepts of latency/throughput;

• Storage: SAN/NAS/DAS, snapshot vs. clone, concept of deduplication/compression;

• Scripting: basic Bash and/or PowerShell (log parsing, simple automations);

• Basic ITSM/ITIL (Incident/Change/Problem) and good documentation practices.

Database fundamentals

• ACID concepts, transactions, checkpoint, journaling/redo/WAL, PITR;

• Types of DB backups: full, differential/incremental, transaction log; hot/online vs. cold/offline; crash-consistent vs. application-consistent coherence;

• Introductory knowledge of the most common databases (at least one):

• SQL Server: recovery model (Full/Simple), log backup, restore chain;

• Oracle: ARCHIVELOG, basic RMAN concepts;

• PostgreSQL: WAL, base backup + WAL for PITR;

• MySQL/InnoDB: redo/binlog, snapshot vs. dump;

• Ability to read a typical DB error during backup/restore and correctly involve the DBA.

NetBackup – Required Basics

• Policy & Schedules, SLP, retention and backup windows;

• Understanding of common status codes and performing ordered checks (network credentials policy storage).

Nice to Have

• VMware (VADP, snapshot), DB plug-ins (RMAN/SQL), basic cloud knowledge (AWS/Azure/GCP);

• NetBackup architecture: Master/Media/Client, Catalog, Storage Unit, MSDP;

• Veritas certification (including willingness to obtain it).

We offer:

Care about Work & Flexibility

• Full remote or hybrid working in our offices: Milan, Turin, Padua, Bologna, Catania and Rende;
  Real work-life balance;

• Flexible working hours so no time tracking, no badge: we trust people to manage their time and focus on outcomes;

• Agile Nomads Experience: opportunity to work for 2 weeks abroad.

Care about Growth & Development

• Training budget: €1.000 per year and 12 hours per month fully dedicated to your learning and growth;

• Structured caree