Remote Storage & Backup Engineer for Cloud & BDCR

Koniag Services, Inc.; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision insurance

401K with company matching

Flexible spending accounts

Paid holidays

Three weeks paid time off

Job summary

Koniag IT Systems, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks a Storage/Backup Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise storage and data protection for a federal civilian customer. Remote role based in the Washington, DC area with the ability to obtain a Public Trust.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in SAN/NAS storage and backup, hands-on experience with Veeam, Commvault, or NetBackup, and cloud storage targets (AWS).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience administering enterprise storage (SAN/NAS) and backup systems.
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise backup platforms (Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, or similar).
• Experience with cloud storage and backup targets (AWS S3/EBS/FSx or equivalent).
• Ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Administer enterprise SAN and NAS storage platforms, including provisioning, capacity planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle management.
• Design and maintain enterprise backup architecture using tools such as Veeam, Commvault, or NetBackup across on-premises and AWS cloud targets.
• Support implementation of the customer's BDCR solution, including replication, failover, and recovery testing for mission-critical financial systems.
• Monitor backup job success rates, troubleshoot failures, and maintain RTO/RPO in COOP plan.
• Coordinate data migration from legacy on-premises storage to cloud-based storage (e.g., Amazon S3, EBS, FSx).
• Implement and maintain storage security controls, including encryption at rest, access controls, and audit logging in accordance with NIST SP 800-53.
• Partner with database and server engineering teams to align storage and backup design with application recovery requirements.
• Maintain accurate documentation of storage architecture, backup schedules, and disaster recovery runbooks.
• Participate in scheduled DR/failover exercises and after-action reporting.

Skills

Data protection concepts

RTO/RPO

Disaster recovery testing

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Public Trust clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Veeam

Commvault

NetBackup

AWS (S3/EBS/FSx)

Job description

Koniag IT Systems, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks a Storage/Backup Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise storage and data protection for a federal civilian customer. Remote role based in the Washington, DC area with the ability to obtain a Public Trust.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in SAN/NAS storage and backup, hands-on experience with Veeam, Commvault, or NetBackup, and cloud storage targets (AWS).