Backup & Recovery Architect - Hybrid Cloud

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Lansing (MI); 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 and recovery across hybrid environments. You will guide policy design, scheduling, and capacity planning for critical systems, ensuring rapid recovery and compliance.

You will mentor junior staff, work with cross-functional teams, and help refine procedures for data protection, encryption, and access controls while driving improvements to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in IT fields.
• 4–7 years in data backup and recovery, storage engineering, or related IT roles.
• Proficient understanding of backup and recovery for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.
• Hands-on with enterprise backup tools such as Veritas NetBackup, Veeam, CommVault, or similar in medium to large environments.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities to resolve complex backup 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 is required.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain backup solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads, including policy design and scheduling.
• Analyze backup infrastructure performance and tune concurrency, bandwidth, and storage tiers to meet RT and RPO targets.
• Perform complex restore operations such as point-in-time restores and DR exercises.
• Implement and maintain backup encryption, key management, and RBAC protections.
• Document and test disaster recovery runbooks and coordinate drills with ops and apps teams.
• Integrate backup systems with monitoring and reporting dashboards for leadership visibility.
• Troubleshoot backup job failures and bottlenecks and drive root-cause remediation.
• Mentor junior staff on best practices for data protection and recovery operations.

Skills

Backup concepts

Troubleshooting

Data protection

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or related

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 and recovery across hybrid environments. You will guide policy design, scheduling, and capacity planning for critical systems, ensuring rapid recovery and compliance.

You will mentor junior staff, work with cross-functional teams, and help refine procedures for data protection, encryption, and access controls while driving improvements to