# Senior Backup Engineer, Fintech

> Optasia · Athens, Greece (Hybrid) · — · Posted 2025-11-14

**Workplace:** hybrid

**Department:** Technology & Innovation

## Description

Optasia is a fully enabled B2B2X financial technology platform covering scoring, financial decisioning, disbursement and collection. We are committed to enabling financial inclusion for all. **We are changing the world our way.**

Since company’s inception, over a decade ago, we have grown to become a global leader in the Fintech fields, constantly expanding and adding new solutions, offerings, and untapped monetization opportunities for all our partners and clients.

As member of the **Systems Engineering** team in **Optasia**, your primary objective is to deliver reliable and high-quality backup and recovery operations by executing, optimizing, and maintaining the organization’s backup, retention, and disaster recovery processes across all platforms.

**What you will do**

-   Manage, monitor, and optimize backup and restore operations across all platforms.
-   Support Veeam, Barman, and NiFi backup environments, ensuring data integrity and recovery readiness.
-   Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution using VMware vRealize Automation and related VMware tools.
-   Handle incidents, perform root cause analysis, and ensure timely resolution of backup or recovery issues.
-   Maintain and update backup configurations, retention policies, and recovery procedures.
-   Document operational runbooks, test results, and technical configurations.
-   Work with the Team Leader to improve performance, scalability, and resilience of backup and DR systems.
-   Ensure alignment with compliance, audit, and data protection requirements.
-   Contribute to capacity planning, automation, and service improvement initiatives.

**What you will bring**

-   3-5 years of experience in IT infrastructure, focusing on backup and disaster recovery operations.
-   Strong technical expertise in Veeam, Barman, and NiFi.
-   Hands-on experience with VMware DR environments (VRA, SRM, or similar).
-   Solid understanding of RPO/RTO concepts, backup design, and data retention.
-   Experience in incident handling, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
-   Familiarity with regulatory and compliance standards (ISO 27001, GDPR, or similar).
-   Excellent attention to detail, documentation, and teamwork skills.

**Why you should apply  
**What we offer:  
💸 Competitive remuneration package  
🏝 Extra day off on your birthday  
💰 Performance-based bonus scheme  
📲 **💻** All the tech gear you need to work smart  
Optasia’s Perks:  
🎌 Be a part of a multicultural working environment  
🎯 Meet a very unique and promising business and industry  
🌌 **🌠** Gain insights for tomorrow market’s foreground

**Optasia’s Values 🌟**

**#1 Drive to Thrive:** Fully dedicated to evolving. We welcome all challenges and learning opportunities.  
**#2 Customer-First Mindset:** We go above and beyond to meet our partners’ and clients’ expectations.  
**#3 Bridge the Gap:** Knowledge is shared, information is exchanged and every opinion counts.  
**#4 Go-Getter Spirit:** We are results oriented. We identify any shortcomings that hold us back and step up to do what’s needed.  
**#5 Together we will do it:** We are committed to supporting one another and to understanding and respecting different perspectives, as we aim to reach our common goals.

## Apply

[Apply at Optasia](https://apply.workable.com/optasia/j/B78646DFD2/apply)

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