Backup and Recovery Engineer

About the role

The Backup and Recovery Engineer - Journeyman oversees enterprise backup and recovery operations to ensure data protection and business continuity in a federal or enterprise IT environment. The role implements and manages backup solutions, validates data recoverability, and supports disaster recovery and continuity of operations planning across critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Implement and administer enterprise backup solutions (e.g., Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup) to protect servers, applications, databases, and file systems across the client environment.
• Monitor backup jobs daily, investigate failures, and drive timely remediation to ensure successful completion across all in-scope systems and platforms.
• Perform regular restore testing and validation to confirm data integrity, recoverability, and adherence to recovery time and recovery point objectives.
• Develop, maintain, and support disaster recovery and continuity of operations plans, including participation in recovery exercises and documentation of procedures.
• Manage backup storage, data retention policies, and offsite media handling (including tape rotation and offsite vaulting when applicable) to align with enterprise and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with system administrators and database administrators to ensure full data protection coverage for all critical workloads and new deployments.
• Automate backup scheduling, reporting, and alerting to reduce operational overhead and improve visibility into backup health and capacity.
• Conduct capacity planning for backup infrastructure and storage growth, recommending optimization and scaling strategies as business needs evolve.

Qualifications

Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, or related field, and at least 4 years of hands-on experience implementing and managing backup and recovery solutions in an enterprise IT environment.

• Demonstrated experience administering one or more enterprise backup platforms (e.g., Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup) and performing routine restores and disaster recovery exercises.
• Strong knowledge of backup storage concepts, retention policies, offsite media handling, and capacity planning for backup infrastructure.
• Must meet DoD 8140 requirements and hold an active TS/SCI clearance.
• Must be a US Citizen and able to work effectively in a federal IT environment with standard security and compliance practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions (e.g., backups for workloads in major commercial cloud platforms).
• Familiarity with ransomware protection, immutable backup strategies, and secure backup architectures that reduce cyber risk.
• Vendor certifications in backup technologies or storage platforms (e.g., vendor-specific backup administrator, storage professional, or cloud backup certifications).
• Experience integrating backup and recovery processes with broader IT service management frameworks (e.g., change management, incident/problem management).

Pay

Salary $100,000 - 110,000