Veritas NetBackup Administrator

novulsolutions; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Holidays

401(k) match

Health benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Parking reimbursement

Job summary

novulsolutions is seeking a Veritas NetBackup Administrator to support the CESO effort. The role is 100% onsite at Mark Center in Alexandria, VA, with occasional travel. You will administer NetBackup across Windows, Linux, and virtualized environments, manage master/media/clients, and optimize backup and recovery operations.

Responsibilities include policies, schedules, retention, and capacity tuning. Required 4+ years in enterprise backup, familiarity with DISA STIGs and security hardening, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 4+ years in Windows and/or Linux administration.
• Experience supporting enterprise backup and recovery environments.
• Familiar with DISA STIGs and government security practices.

Responsibilities

• Administer Veritas NetBackup infrastructure including Master/Media/Clients.
• Configure, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize backup and restore operations.
• Create and manage backup policies, schedules, retention, and storage lifecycle policies.
• Perform maintenance, upgrades, patching, capacity monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Support backup for Oracle/ SQL Server/ Exchange/ SAP and other apps.
• Support virtualized backups (VMware/Hyper-V).
• Apply security hardening and DISA STIGs to backup infrastructure.
• Coordinate with storage, database, application, and cybersecurity teams.

Skills

Veritas NetBackup

Windows admin

Linux admin

DISA STIGs

VMware/Hyper-V

Backup troubleshooting

Policy management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Position Overview

We are seeking a Veritas NetBackup Administrator to support the Compartmented Enterprise Services Office (CESO) effort. The role is responsible for administering, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing enterprise backup and recovery infrastructure using Veritas NetBackup across Windows, Linux, and virtualized environments. This position is 100% onsite at Mark Center in Alexandria, VA, with occasional/situational travel.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Veritas NetBackup infrastructure, including Master Servers, Media Servers, and Clients.
• Configure, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize backup and restore operations, including failed-job resolution and recovery support.
• Create and manage backup policies, schedules, retention requirements, Storage Lifecycle Policies, and recovery configurations.
• Perform NetBackup maintenance, upgrades, patching, configuration changes, capacity monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Support backup and recovery for Oracle, SQL Server, Exchange, SAP, and other enterprise applications and databases.
• Support virtualized backup environments including VMware, Hyper-V, and similar platforms.
• Apply DISA STIGs, security hardening, compliance requirements, and commercial security best practices to backup infrastructure.
• Support disaster recovery, continuity of operations, restoration testing, reporting, documentation, and coordination with storage, infrastructure, database, application, and cybersecurity teams.

Requirements Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 4+ years of related experience supporting Windows and/or Linux environments; equivalent experience, education, or training may be considered.
• Willing and able to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph if required.
• Experience supporting enterprise backup and recovery environments, including monitoring, reporting, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Strong Linux and/or Windows Server administration experience.
• Experience with DISA STIGs, security hardening, and government/industry security best practices.
• Experience supporting VMware, Hyper-V, or other virtualization platforms.
• Knowledge of backup policies, retention, recovery procedures, data protection, and troubleshooting across servers, storage, applications, virtualization, and network-connected backup infrastructure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior DISA/mission-partner experience with active TS/SCI + CI Poly, plus strong hands‑on Veritas NetBackup 8.x/9.x/10.x administration across Master/Media Servers, policies, schedules, retention, and Storage Lifecycle Policies.
• Experience with Linux, VMware/Hyper-V, enterprise storage, Oracle/SQL Server/Exchange/SAP backups, complex backup/restore troubleshooting, and disaster recovery/business continuity/COOP operations.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off PTO):TEN (10) Paid days off & FIVE (5) Floating days off.
• Holidays: 11 Paid Holidays.
• Flex time can be utilized instead of holiday time usage.
• Payroll: Paid Bi-Monthly.
• 401(k): Partnered with the SECOND LARGEST Retirement plan provider in the U.S. Guaranteed 3% match.
• Eligibility – 21 years of age or older, after 3 months of employment Individual or company-wide performance and recognition awards (Quarterly)
• Health Benefits: UNITED HEALTHCARE PPO, extensive national coverage. INCLUDES: Medical/Dental/Vision/HSA. Eligible on the first of the month, immediately after the start date. Submit the enrollment form within 30 days of your start date otherwise, you will have to wait until October for the new year enrollment.
• Quality of Life Benefits: Training & Career Development Reimbursement of Tuition and training needed to support career development. $150 monthly reimbursement contribution paid monthly towards parking expenses. Receipts must be submitted by the close of business on the 25th of each month. Reimbursements will be paid on the first payroll AFTER reimbursements are submitted each month.
• Special Benefits: Performance bonus – Project-based Yearly bonus – Company based