Senior Backup & Recovery Architect - Hybrid Cloud & DR

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

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Backup and Recovery Specialist, Mid to optimize enterprise backup and recovery services supporting large data sets and critical applications in a federal IT environment.

You will design backup policies, storage architectures, and recovery workflows aligned with business continuity and disaster recovery objectives, and provide guidance to junior staff and stakeholders on data protection standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4–7 years of data backup and recovery, storage engineering, or related IT 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.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with ability to resolve complex backup issues.
• Experience using monitoring tools and documenting backup configurations and procedures.
• Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain; U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain backup solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads, including policy design and capacity planning.
• Analyze backup infrastructure performance and tune concurrency, bandwidth, and storage tiers.
• Perform complex restore operations, including point-in-time recovery and disaster recovery exercises.
• Implement and maintain backup encryption, key management, and RBAC.
• Document and test disaster recovery runbooks and coordinate drills with operations teams.
• Integrate backup systems with monitoring and reporting dashboards for leadership.

Skills

Data backup

Troubleshooting

Monitoring

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, Mid to optimize enterprise backup and recovery services supporting large data sets and critical applications in a federal IT environment.

You will design backup policies, storage architectures, and recovery workflows aligned with business continuity and disaster recovery objectives, and provide guidance to junior staff and stakeholders on data protection standards.