Lead Backup & Recovery Engineer

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Madison (WI); 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 who designs and optimizes enterprise backup, recovery workflows, and storage architectures across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments for a federal IT landscape.

You will troubleshoot complex restore scenarios, refine policies, mentor junior staff, and partner with operations to ensure data protection, compliance, and continuity in business applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in IT.
• 4-7 years in data backup and recovery or related IT roles.
• Proficient backup/recovery principles across physical, virtual, and cloud.
• Experience with enterprise backup tools (NetBackup, Veeam, CommVault).
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Experience documenting configurations and runbooks.
• Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain; U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain backup solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.
• Tune performance, concurrency, bandwidth, and storage tiers to meet RTO/RPO.
• Execute complex restore operations and disaster recovery exercises.
• Implement encryption, key management, and RBAC for data protection.
• Test and document disaster recovery runbooks with teams.
• Integrate backups with monitoring/reporting dashboards for leadership.
• Troubleshoot failures and root-cause issues across the backup estate.
• Mentor junior staff on data protection and operational practices.

Skills

Security clearance

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Monitoring experience

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 Mid Backup and Recovery Specialist who designs and optimizes enterprise backup, recovery workflows, and storage architectures across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments for a federal IT landscape.

You will troubleshoot complex restore scenarios, refine policies, mentor junior staff, and partner with operations to ensure data protection, compliance, and continuity in business applications.