Enterprise Backup & Recovery Architect

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

Job summary

ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Backup and Recovery Specialist to design and optimize enterprise backup and recovery services within a federal IT environment. The role focuses on policy creation, storage architecture, and DR workflows aligned with business continuity.

The specialist will troubleshoot advanced restore scenarios across hybrid on-prem and cloud environments, guiding junior staff and stakeholders on data protection standards and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 4-7 years in data backup and recovery, storage engineering, systems administration, or related IT infrastructure 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, or similar platforms 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, including policy design, job scheduling, and capacity planning.
• Analyze backup infrastructure performance and tune concurrency, bandwidth usage, and storage tiers to meet recovery targets.
• Perform complex restore operations such as database point-in-time recovery and disaster recovery exercises.
• Implement and maintain backup encryption, key management, and RBAC to protect data in transit and at rest.
• Document and test disaster recovery runbooks; coordinate drills with operations and application teams.
• Integrate backup systems with monitoring and reporting solutions for dashboards and compliance metrics.
• Troubleshoot backup job failures and performance bottlenecks; drive root-cause analysis and remediation.
• Mentor junior staff on data protection standards and recovery operations.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Documentation

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or related field

Tools

Veritas NetBackup

Veeam

CommVault

Job description

ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Backup and Recovery Specialist to design and optimize enterprise backup and recovery services within a federal IT environment. The role focuses on policy creation, storage architecture, and DR workflows aligned with business continuity.

The specialist will troubleshoot advanced restore scenarios across hybrid on-prem and cloud environments, guiding junior staff and stakeholders on data protection standards and reporting.