Backup & Recovery Architect — Cloud & DR Expert

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, is seeking a Backup and Recovery Specialist to design, implement, and optimize enterprise backup and restore for hybrid environments. The role emphasizes policy, retention strategies, encryption, and incident response, with emphasis on regulatory compliance and leadership guidance.

The candidate will mentor junior staff, coordinate DR drills, and integrate backup with monitoring dashboards for leadership reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 4–7 years in data backup, recovery, storage engineering, or related IT infra roles.
• Proficient understanding of backup/recovery across physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.
• Hands-on with Veritas NetBackup, Veeam, or CommVault in medium to large environments.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills for complex backup and recovery issues.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain backup solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads, including policy design and capacity planning.
• Analyze backup performance, tune concurrency, bandwidth, and storage tiers for target recovery objectives.
• Perform complex restore operations like point-in-time and granular restores, DR exercises.
• Implement backup encryption, key management, and RBAC for data protection.
• Document and test disaster recovery runbooks, coordinating periodic failover drills.
• Integrate backup systems with monitoring/reporting solutions for dashboards and compliance metrics.
• Troubleshoot backup job failures and remediation across the environment.
• Mentor junior staff on data protection and documentation.

Skills

Backup & recovery

Storage engineering

Systems administration

Troubleshooting

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS or related field

Tools

Veritas NetBackup

Veeam

CommVault

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, is seeking a Backup and Recovery Specialist to design, implement, and optimize enterprise backup and restore for hybrid environments. The role emphasizes policy, retention strategies, encryption, and incident response, with emphasis on regulatory compliance and leadership guidance.

The candidate will mentor junior staff, coordinate DR drills, and integrate backup with monitoring dashboards for leadership reporting.