Systems Engineer II (Backup)

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Systems Engineer II (Backups) to join our team in Pocatello, ID or Huntsville, AL. A current Top Secret clearance is required for this role. Onsite work is required at either location.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and provide ongoing support of the Backup Infrastructure.
• Serve as the advanced matter expert for all Backup environments.
• Create and maintain backup infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools on Linux and Windows environments.
• Provision/configure required backups for Linux and Windows servers.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the backup infrastructure.
• Monitor and correct backup issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks; configure alerts for proactive response times.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, SAN and Tape infrastructure, and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions.
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability, including verification of data replication, failover copies, and redundant data sets.
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement fixes.
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower human intervention time on tasks, such as monitoring backup storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
• Provide 3rd level support.
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date, including inventory and patch levels of all systems (hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, cores, processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts) on a monthly interval.
• Integrate systems with Windows and Linux as it applies to core service dependencies.
• Document system configurations, including passwords, access controls, version numbers, revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory (hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, processors, cores, memory, and license keys).
• Transition knowledge to Government staff through training and assistance on technology usage following industry best practices.
• Provide real-time reporting of backup storage consumed and utilized resources, including performance metrics for tape and disk space consumption, storage availability, performance, and trends.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years’ experience with enterprise backup and recovery solutions such as Cohesity NetBackup.
• Active Top-Secret Clearance with SCI-CI Poly eligibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is preferred.

About Us

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm founded in 2002 and located in Frederick, MD. The company supports customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services, and timely delivery. Edgewater is ISO 9001, 20000-1, and 27001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies from 2018 through 2025.