Veritas NetBackup Administrator

Novul Solutions; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off (PTO)

11 paid holidays

401(k) with 3% match

Health insurance

Tuition & career development reimburse

Parking reimbursement

Job summary

Novul Solutions seeks a Veritas NetBackup Administrator to manage enterprise backup and recovery across Windows, Linux, and virtualization platforms. The role is 100% onsite at Mark Center in Alexandria, VA, with occasional travel and a requirement for active Top Secret/SCI clearance.

You’ll configure policies, monitor operations, and coordinate with multiple teams to ensure data protection and recovery readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 4+ years of related experience in Windows and/or Linux environments.
• Willing and able to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph if required.
• Experience supporting enterprise backup and recovery environments and performance tuning.
• Strong Linux and 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, and troubleshooting across servers, storage, applications, virtualization, and network backup infrastructure.

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.

Skills

Backup administration

Linux administration

Windows administration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Veritas NetBackup

VMware

Hyper-V

Job description

Alexandria, United States | Posted on 09/01/2026

• Clearance Requirement Active Top Secret/SCI

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.

Core 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)


• UNITED HEALTHCARE PPO, extensive national coverage.


• 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.