Strategic Backup & Recovery Architect

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company

Saint Paul (MN)

On-site

USD 65,000 - 71,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company is seeking a Backup and Recovery Specialist, Mid, to architect and optimize backup services across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments for federal IT workloads.

You will design backup policies, storage architectures, and runbooks, troubleshoot complex restore scenarios, and guide junior staff on data protection standards and reporting, ensuring compliance and resilience.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
  • 4–7 years of experience in data backup and recovery, storage engineering, systems administration, or related IT infrastructure roles.
  • Proficient understanding of backup and recovery principles and technologies, including support for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise backup tools such as Veritas NetBackup, Veeam, CommVault, or similar platforms in medium to large environments.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with proven ability to resolve complex backup, storage, and recovery issues independently.
  • Experience using monitoring tools and documenting backup configurations, runbooks, and recovery procedures.
  • Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain and maintain the required investigation level.
  • U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and maintain backup solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads, including policy design, job scheduling, and capacity planning.
  • Analyze backup infrastructure performance and tune concurrency, bandwidth usage, and storage tiers to meet stringent recovery time and recovery point targets.
  • Perform complex restore operations such as database point-in-time recovery, granular file and application restores, and disaster recovery exercises.
  • Implement and maintain backup encryption, key management, and role-based access controls to protect sensitive data in transit and at rest.
  • Document and test disaster recovery runbooks, coordinating periodic failover and restoration drills with operations and application teams.
  • Integrate backup systems with monitoring and reporting solutions to provide dashboards, alerts, and compliance metrics for leadership.
  • Troubleshoot backup job failures and performance bottlenecks, driving root-cause analysis and remediation across the backup environment.
  • Mentor junior backup and infrastructure staff, sharing best practices for data protection, recovery operations, and documentation.

Skills

Backup & Recovery
Storage engineering
Troubleshooting
Monitoring
Leadership 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 architect and optimize backup services across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments for federal IT workloads.

You will design backup policies, storage architectures, and runbooks, troubleshoot complex restore scenarios, and guide junior staff on data protection standards and reporting, ensuring compliance and resilience.

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