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Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Disaster Recovery & COOP Engineer to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain enterprise disaster recovery (DR) and Continuity of Operations (COOP) capabilities for systems, applications, and cybersecurity platforms.
• Design COOP plans, backup/recovery procedures, contingency playbooks, failover architectures, and recovery point/time objectives aligned with RMF, DoD, Army, and ARNG directives.
• Maintain COOP environments, coordinate failover testing and contingency exercises, and validate recovery procedures to ensure continuity of essential services during disruptions.
• Integrate redundancy, continuity, and recovery requirements into system and network designs to ensure resilience against cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, and mission disruptions.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity engineering, SOC/CIRT, enterprise architects, and system owners to assess resilience, identify continuity gaps, and recommend architectural improvements.
• Lead development and execution of DR/COOP exercises, capture lessons learned, and update playbooks, runbooks, and transitiontooperations artifacts.
• Support outage monitoring, incident coordination, and operational recovery activities; provide technical leadership during degraded operations and failover events.
• Produce recovery strategies, technical recovery designs, system analysis documentation, and decisiongrade briefings for program leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement of DR/COOP capabilities through automation, validation testing, and modernization initiatives.

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Qualifications

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance.

• Candidate must meet ONE of the following:

  • Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or a related field; OR
  • Relevant DoD/military training (examples: SANS SEC545; SANS LDR512; Joint Cyber Analysis Course (JCAC)); OR
  • Relevant professional certification or equivalent experience (examples: ISC2 CISSP; CompTIA CASP+; AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional; CISM; GIAC GWEB).

• Required experience and skills:

  • DR/COOP, systems engineering, or resiliency architecture experience with at least 3 years leading enterprise DR/COOP design and exercises.
  • Proven ability to design and validate failover architectures, backup/recovery strategies (including RMAN/DB backups, storage replication, and cloud DR), and endtoend recovery playbooks.
  • Handson experience conducting COOP/DR exercises, failover testing, recovery validation, and scripting/automation for recovery procedures.
  • Strong knowledge of RMF/ATO impacts on continuity, STIG/CSG considerations for recoverable systems, and evidence requirements for accreditation and audits.
  • Experience coordinating crossfunctional recovery activities with SOC/CIRT, NOC, system owners, and external providers during incidents.
  • Ability to produce decisiongrade recovery plans, technical briefs, POA&Ms, and exercise afteraction reports.

• Desired:

  • Prior DoD/ARNG COOP/DR or enterprise resilience experience.
  • Experience with cloud failover patterns, multiregion replication, orchestration of recovery workflows, and automated recovery validation.
  • Familiarity with business continuity planning, service continuity metrics, and integration of DR/COOP with incident response and operational exercises.

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Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.EEOEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.Employment Type: FULL_TIME