Backup & Recovery Architect - Federal IT (Hybrid Cloud)

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company is seeking a Backup and Recovery Specialist, Mid to design, implement, and optimize backup strategies for enterprise systems in a federal IT environment. You will coordinate with operations and stakeholders to meet recovery objectives and ensure data protection across on-premises and cloud workloads.

The role requires hands-on experience with NetBackup, Veeam, or CommVault, a related IT background, and the ability to guide junior staff and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in IT.
• 4-7 years of data backup and recovery, storage engineering, systems administration, or related IT infrastructure roles.
• Proficient understanding of backup and recovery across physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise backup tools such as Veritas NetBackup, Veeam, CommVault, or similar in medium to large environments.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with proven ability to resolve complex backup, storage, and recovery issues independently.
• 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.
• Analyze backup infrastructure performance and tune concurrency, bandwidth usage, and storage tiers to meet recovery targets.
• Perform complex restore operations including point-in-time restores, granular restores, and DR exercises.
• Implement backup encryption, key management, and RBAC.
• Document and test disaster recovery runbooks and coordinate failover drills.
• Integrate backup systems with monitoring and reporting dashboards for leadership.
• Troubleshoot backup job failures and drive root-cause remediation.
• Mentor junior staff on data protection and runbook documentation.

Skills

Backup principles

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Monitoring

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent IT experience

Tools

Veritas NetBackup

Veeam

CommVault

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company is seeking a Backup and Recovery Specialist, Mid to design, implement, and optimize backup strategies for enterprise systems in a federal IT environment. You will coordinate with operations and stakeholders to meet recovery objectives and ensure data protection across on-premises and cloud workloads.

The role requires hands-on experience with NetBackup, Veeam, or CommVault, a related IT background, and the ability to guide junior staff and