TS/SCI Backup & Recovery Engineer | Disaster Recovery

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions seeks a Backup and Recovery Engineer to oversee enterprise backup and recovery operations in a federal or enterprise IT environment. The role focuses on implementing backup solutions, validating recoverability, and supporting disaster recovery planning.

The ideal candidate will manage storage, retention, offsite media, and coordinate with system and database teams to ensure coverage and compliance. Active TS/SCI clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years in backup/recovery in enterprise IT environment; 3–6 years recommended.

Responsibilities

• Implement and administer enterprise backup solutions to protect servers, apps, databases, and files.
• Monitor backup jobs, investigate failures, and remediate to ensure successful completion.

Skills

Data protection

Disaster recovery planning

Capacity planning

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT / related field

Tools

Veeam

Commvault

NetBackup

Job description

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions seeks a Backup and Recovery Engineer to oversee enterprise backup and recovery operations in a federal or enterprise IT environment. The role focuses on implementing backup solutions, validating recoverability, and supporting disaster recovery planning.

The ideal candidate will manage storage, retention, offsite media, and coordinate with system and database teams to ensure coverage and compliance. Active TS/SCI clearance is required.