Backup & Recovery Architect — Enterprise Data Protection

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

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, is seeking a Mid Backup and Recovery Specialist to design, implement, and optimize enterprise backup solutions across on-premises and cloud environments. You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure data protection and recoverability for critical applications in federal IT settings.

The role emphasizes policy design, performance tuning, and incident troubleshooting, with mentorship to junior staff and collaboration with security and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in IT.
• 4-7 years of experience in data backup and recovery, storage engineering, or related IT roles.
• Proficient understanding of backup and recovery principles for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise backup tools such as Veritas NetBackup, Veeam, CommVault.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with ability to resolve complex backup, storage, and recovery issues.
• Experience using monitoring tools and documenting backup configurations, runbooks, and recovery procedures.
• Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain and maintain the required investigation level.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain backup solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads, including policy design, job scheduling, and capacity planning.
• Analyze backup infrastructure performance and tune concurrency, bandwidth usage, and storage tiers to meet stringent recovery time and recovery point targets.
• Perform complex restore operations such as database point-in-time recovery, granular file and application restores, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Implement and maintain backup encryption, key management, and role-based access controls to protect sensitive data in transit and at rest.
• Document and test disaster recovery runbooks, coordinating periodic failover and restoration drills with operations and application teams.
• Integrate backup systems with monitoring and reporting solutions to provide dashboards, alerts, and compliance metrics for leadership.
• Troubleshoot backup job failures and performance bottlenecks, driving root-cause analysis and remediation across the backup environment.
• Mentor junior backup and infrastructure staff, sharing best practices for data protection, recovery operations, and documentation.

Skills

Backup & recovery concepts

Veritas NetBackup

Veeam

CommVault

Monitoring tools

Documentation

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / Computer Science or related field

Tools

Veritas NetBackup

Veeam

CommVault

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, is seeking a Mid Backup and Recovery Specialist to design, implement, and optimize enterprise backup solutions across on-premises and cloud environments. You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure data protection and recoverability for critical applications in federal IT settings.

The role emphasizes policy design, performance tuning, and incident troubleshooting, with mentorship to junior staff and collaboration with security and