Senior Backup and Recovery Engineer II

Agile Defense, Inc.; Pocatello (ID); On-site; USD 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Holiday Pay

Disability Insurance (short-term &

Retirement Plan

Learning and Development

Job summary

Agile Defense, Inc. in Pocatello, ID seeks a Senior Backup and Recovery Engineer II to design, deploy, test, and maintain backup infrastructure across Linux and Windows environments, including SAN, NAS, and Tape storage. A Top Secret/SCI clearance with CI poly is required.

The role emphasizes security, documentation, 3rd level support, and collaboration with vendors and government teams, with a salary range of $99,000–$121,000 per year and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in backup/recovery engineering or equivalent.
• Experience with NetBackup and IBM Spectrum Protect Suite required; Cohesity preferred.
• Top Secret/SCI clearance with ability to obtain/maintain CI polygraph is required.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support backup infrastructure across Linux and Windows environments.
• Lead backup tech across SAN, NAS, Tape, iSCSI, and related storage.
• Ensure information security across the backup environment and monitor for performance bottlenecks.

Skills

NetBackup

IBM Spectrum Protect

Cohesity

6+ years experience

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred in Systems Engineering/CS

Job description

About Agile Defense

At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

Requisition #: 1961

Job Title: Senior Backup and Recovery Engineer II

Location: Pocatello, ID

Clearance Level: Top Secret / SCI Required with ability to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph

Job Description

The Senior Backup and Recovery Engineer II shall 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..

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• The Contractor shall design, implement, and provide ongoing support of the Backup Infrastructure.
• The Contractor shall serve as the advanced matter expert for all Backup environments.
• The Contractor shall 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.
• The Contractor shall provision/configure required backups for Linux and Window servers.
• The Contractor shall evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the backup infrastructure.
• The Contractor shall monitor and correct backup issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks and configure alerts for proactive response times.
• The Contractor shall 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.
• The Contractor shall proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability to include verification of the replication of data, fail over copies, redundant data sets.
• The Contractor shall monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
• The Contractor shall maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• The Contractor shall 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).
• The Contractor shall participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
• The Contractor shall provide 3rd level support.
• The Contractor shall liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• The Contractor shall 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.
• The Contractor shall integrate systems with Windows and Linux as it applies to core service dependencies.
• The Contractor shall document 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.
• The Contractor shall continually transition knowledge to the Government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
• The Contractor shall 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.

Education and Background

• 6+ years of experience

Required Skills

Clearance

• Current Top-Secret Clearance with ability to obtain and maintain a CI-Polygaph to meet contract requirements.

Skills and Qualifications

• This position shall be filled with individuals with a minimum of six years’ experience with NetBackup and IBM Spectrum Protect Suite experience required. Cohesity experience preferred.
• Experience in largescale mission-critical IT environments

Preferred Skills

• Bachelor's degree preferred in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Working Conditions

• Environmental Conditions– Office & Datacenter
• Strength Demands – Occasionally lift 50+lbs in teams
• Physical Requirements – Sit, Stand

$99,000 - $121,000 a year

In addition, Agile Defense invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Agile’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short‑term and long‑term Disability, Retirement and Learning and Development opportunities as well as other optional benefit elections.

Our Core Values

Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together.

What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It's how we show up every day. It's who we are.

• Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
• Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
• Honest - Be Trustworthy. Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
• Humble - Be Grounded. Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
• Hungry - Be Eager. Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
• Hustle - Be Driven. Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities