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Backup and Recovery Engineer - Journeyman

ASM Research

Washington, DC • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 4 days ago


ASM Research rating

8.6

Company rating: 8.6 out of 10

Based on 14 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

32nd of 223 rated it services


Job description

The Backup and Recovery Engineer - Journeyman oversees enterprise backup and recovery operations to ensure data protection and business continuity in a federal or enterprise IT environment. The role implements and manages backup solutions, validates data recoverability, and supports disaster recovery and continuity of operations planning across critical systems. The engineer monitors backup performance, resolves failures, optimizes storage and retention strategies, and collaborates with infrastructure and database teams to maintain comprehensive coverage.
Key Responsibilities
  • Implement and administer enterprise backup solutions (e.g., Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup) to protect servers, applications, databases, and file systems across the client environment.
  • Monitor backup jobs daily, investigate failures, and drive timely remediation to ensure successful completion across all in-scope systems and platforms.
  • Perform regular restore testing and validation to confirm data integrity, recoverability, and adherence to recovery time and recovery point objectives.
  • Develop, maintain, and support disaster recovery and continuity of operations plans, including participation in recovery exercises and documentation of procedures.
  • Manage backup storage, data retention policies, and offsite media handling (including tape rotation and offsite vaulting when applicable) to align with enterprise and regulatory requirements.
  • Collaborate with system administrators and database administrators to ensure full data protection coverage for all critical workloads and new deployments.
  • Automate backup scheduling, reporting, and alerting to reduce operational overhead and improve visibility into backup health and capacity.
  • Conduct capacity planning for backup infrastructure and storage growth, recommending optimization and scaling strategies as business needs evolve.

Required Qualifications
  • Requires a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
  • At least 4 years of hands-on experience implementing and managing backup and recovery solutions in an enterprise IT environment, typically 3-6 years of backup/recovery or storage engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated experience administering one or more enterprise backup platforms (e.g., Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup) and performing routine restores and disaster recovery exercises.
  • Strong knowledge of backup storage concepts, retention policies, offsite media handling, and capacity planning for backup infrastructure.
  • Must meet DoD 8140 requirements and hold an active Secret clearance.
  • Must be a US Citizen and able to work effectively in a federal IT environment with standard security and compliance practices.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience designing and operating cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions (e.g., backups for workloads in major commercial cloud platforms).
  • Familiarity with ransomware protection, immutable backup strategies, and secure backup architectures that reduce cyber risk.
  • Vendor certifications in backup technologies or storage platforms (e.g., vendor-specific backup administrator, storage professional, or cloud backup certifications).
  • Experience integrating backup and recovery processes with broader IT service management frameworks (e.g., change management, incident/problem management).

Compensation Ranges
Compensation ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple factors; including but not limited to, location, skill set, level of education, certifications, client requirements, contract-specific affordability, government clearance and investigation level, and years of experience. The compensation displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is unique to each role. Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall compensation and benefits package for employees.
EEO Requirements
It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies.
All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.
Physical Requirements
The physical requirements described in "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" above are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. (For example, "light office duties' or "lifting up to 50 pounds" or "some travel" required.) Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualifying disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the primary functions.
Disclaimer
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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