Senior Backup & Recovery Engineer (Hybrid Cloud DR)

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

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, is seeking a Backup and Recovery Specialist, Mid, to administer and optimize enterprise backup services across on-premises and cloud environments in a federal IT setting. The role designs backup policies, storage architectures, and recovery workflows to align with business continuity objectives.

The position requires hands-on troubleshooting of complex restore scenarios, mentoring junior staff, and collaboration with operations and application

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4–7 years in data backup, recovery, storage engineering, or related IT roles.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise backup tools (NetBackup, Veeam, CommVault) in medium to large environments.
• Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain; U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain backup solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.
• Tune concurrency, bandwidth, and storage tiers to meet recovery targets.
• Perform complex restore operations, including point-in-time recovery and DR drills.
• Implement encryption, key management, and RBAC for data protection.
• Document and test disaster recovery runbooks and coordinate drills.
• Integrate backup systems with monitoring for dashboards and compliance metrics.
• Troubleshoot failures and drive root-cause analysis across the backup environment.
• Mentor junior staff and share best practices for data protection.

Skills

Backup & recovery principles

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Analytical thinking

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, is seeking a Backup and Recovery Specialist, Mid, to administer and optimize enterprise backup services across on-premises and cloud environments in a federal IT setting. The role designs backup policies, storage architectures, and recovery workflows to align with business continuity objectives.

The position requires hands-on troubleshooting of complex restore scenarios, mentoring junior staff, and collaboration with operations and application