Principal Systems Engineer (Backup)

Edgewater Federal Solutions; Pocatello (ID); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer (Backup) to lead design, deployment, testing, and ongoing support of the backup infrastructure across Linux and Windows environments. You will manage SAN, NAS, Tape, and local storage configurations, ensure security controls, and drive reliability and recovery plans.

The role requires a Top Secret clearance with SCI-CI Poly eligibility and onsite work in Huntsville, AL or Pocatello, ID.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred with at least 6 years of hands-on experience in enterprise backup and recovery solutions such as Cohesity and NetBackup.
• Active Top-Secret Clearance with SCI-CI Poly eligibility is required.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support backup infrastructure.
• Serve as the advanced subject matter expert for backup environments.
• Provide backup for Linux and Windows servers with SAN, NAS, Tape, and local storage configurations.
• Evaluate security across the backup infrastructure and maintain high availability and recovery processes.
• Develop scripts to automate backup tasks and monitoring across IaaS environments.
• Coordinate with vendors and IT staff to resolve issues and maintain documentation.

Skills

Backup & recovery solutions

Cohesity

NetBackup

Clearance: Top Secret

Linux

Windows

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Linux

Windows

Job description

Principal Systems Engineer (Backup)

Job Locations: US-AL-Huntsville | US-ID-Pocatello

Job Details

ID: 2026-4768

Category: Information Technology

Type: Full Time

Overview

Edgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking a Principal Systems Engineer (Backup) to join our team in Pocatello, ID or in Huntsville, AL. You will be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base data backup system, but for all features, components, and application dependencies. To include Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Tape, local disk, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc.A current Top Secret clearance is required for this role. We are hiring to work onsite for either location in Huntsville, AL or in Pocatello, ID.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and provide ongoing support of the Backup Infrastructure.
• Serve as the advanced matter expert for all Backup environments.
• Create and maintain backup infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools on Linux and Windows environments.
• Provision/configure required backups for Linux and Windows servers.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the backup infrastructure.
• Monitor and correct backup issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks and configure alerts for proactive response times.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, SAN and Tape infrastructure and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions.
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability to include verification of the replication of data, fail over copies, redundant data sets.
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as monitoring backup storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• Provide 3rd level support
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.
• Integrate systems with Windows and Linux as it applies to core service dependencies.
• Dcument system configurations to include passwords, access controls, version number, and revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory to include hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
• Continually transition knowledge to the Government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
• Provide real-time reporting of backup storage consumed and utilized resources to include performance metrics for tape and disk space consumption, storage availability, performance, and trends.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree is preferred and a minimum of 6 years' experience with enterprise backup and recovery solutions such as Cohesity NetBackup required.
• Active Top-Secret Clearance with SCI-CI Poly eligibility

About Us

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services, and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025.

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.

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