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Maximus

Cloud Architect

VA · On-site +1

$65.25 - $83/hr

... disaster recovery planning, testing, and continuity of operations across on-premises, cloud, and ... remote Minimum Requirements TCS022, T4, Band 7 #TSTECH EEO Statement Maximus is an equal ...

Maximus

Cloud Architect

VA · On-site +1

$65.25 - $83/hr

... disaster recovery planning, testing, and continuity of operations across on-premises, cloud, and ... remote Minimum Requirements TCS022, T4, Band 7 #TSTECH EEO Statement Maximus is an equal ...

Maximus

Cloud Analyst

VA · On-site +1

General information Job Posting Title Cloud Analyst Date Tuesday, June 2, 2026 City Remote Country ... disaster recovery (DR) planning and testing by tracking readiness, documenting outcomes, and ...

OVHcloud

Account Manager

Reston, VA · On-site +1

$100K - $125K/yr

Backup & Disaster Recovery Services * Private and Hybrid Cloud Solutions Base salary range: $60,000 ... Flexible Work Options - Based on your location you will qualify for hybrid or fully remote work.

Maximus

Database Engineer

VA · On-site +1

... backup/recovery validation and disaster recovery readiness. - Strong documentation and data ... remote Minimum Requirements TCS080, T2, Band 5 #TSTECH EEO Statement Maximus is an equal ...

VivSoft Technologies LLC

Data Engineer

Herndon, VA · On-site +1

$117K - $141K/yr

Remote, USA Clearance: Top-Secret Type: Full-time, W2About VivSoft We are a mission-driven ... Support database replication, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, and continuity of operations ...

CyberSheath

Helpdesk Technician II

Reston, VA · Remote

$83/hr

On-premise and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery * Hardware peripherals (printers, monitors ... Prior experience using Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) tools (i.e. - Automate, Labtech ...

Maximus

Technical Project Coordinator

VA · On-site +1

... Disaster Recovery documentation. - Provide hands-on technical support during periods of reduced ... remote Minimum Requirements TCS172, P4, Band 7 #TSTECH EEO Statement Maximus is an equal ...

CyberSheath

Helpdesk Technician I

Reston, VA · Remote

$20.75 - $28/hr

On-premise and Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery  * Hardware peripherals (printers, monitors ... Prior experience using Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) tools (i.e. - Automate, Labtech ...

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As of Jun 12, 2026, the average hourly pay for remote disaster recovery in Virginia is $41.17, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $30.72 and $47.64 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What Are Remote Disaster Recovery Jobs?

The IT field offers a variety of opportunities in remote disaster recovery, with titles like Data Engineer, Technical Architect, Senior Systems Engineer, and Technical Consultant. Disaster recovery is generally a subset of a larger role in systems or network administration, information security, or a related specialization. In these roles, you achieve an understanding of your company’s business needs and requirements and develop strategies and protocols to ensure the security and availability of technical resources. Your duties and responsibilities also include creating and testing disaster recovery plans and writing reports, policies and procedures, and other forms of documentation to support your initiatives.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Remote Disaster Recovery Specialist, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Remote Disaster Recovery Specialist, you need a solid understanding of IT infrastructure, backup and recovery protocols, and risk assessment, often backed by a degree in information technology or related certifications like CompTIA Security+ or Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP). Familiarity with disaster recovery software, cloud platforms, virtualization tools, and incident management systems is typically required. Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and effective communication are crucial soft skills for coordinating responses and collaborating with diverse teams. These skills and qualifications are essential to ensure rapid recovery and minimal downtime during disruptive incidents, safeguarding business continuity.

What is a Remote Disaster Recovery specialist?

A Remote Disaster Recovery specialist is a professional responsible for developing, implementing, and managing plans and procedures to restore IT systems, data, and operations after a disruptive event, such as a natural disaster, cyberattack, or hardware failure. They work remotely to monitor systems, conduct risk assessments, and ensure that backup and recovery solutions are effective and up to date. Their goal is to minimize downtime, protect critical data, and enable organizations to resume normal operations as quickly as possible after an incident.

What are the typical challenges faced when coordinating disaster recovery efforts remotely, and how can they be addressed?

Coordinating disaster recovery remotely often involves challenges such as maintaining clear communication across distributed teams, ensuring timely access to critical systems, and managing resources from a distance. To address these, many organizations rely on robust collaboration tools, detailed documentation, and pre-established response protocols. Regular virtual drills and clear escalation procedures also help ensure that everyone knows their role and can respond efficiently, even when working from different locations.
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Senior PostgreSQL Database Reliability Engineer

Senior PostgreSQL Database Reliability Engineer

Nodal Exchange

Tysons, VA • On-site, Remote

$170K - $210K/yr

Full-time

Posted 13 days ago

Job description

Senior PostgreSQL Database Reliability Engineer
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Tysons Corner
Compensation: $170,000 - $210,000 / year
Description
Senior Postgres Database Reliability EngineerTysons Corner, VA (DC Metro Area) - will consider remote hiring from select states
Nodal Exchange is a derivatives exchange providing price, credit and liquidity risk management to participants in the North American commodity markets. Nodal Exchange is a leader in innovation, having introduced the largest sets of environmental and electric power futures and options contracts in the world. All transactions on Nodal Exchange (power, environmental and natural gas) are cleared through its wholly owned clearing house, Nodal Clear, using its award-winning portfolio margining methodology. Nodal Clear also clears a broad set of crypto futures contracts for Coinbase Derivatives Exchange. As leaders in innovation, Nodal Exchange and Nodal Clear have built in-house most of the trading and clearing platforms that fuel our business. Nodal Exchange is part of the EEX Group which is in turn part of the Deutsche Börse Group.
We are now looking for talented, innovative individuals to join our team based in the Tysons Corner, VA (DC Metro area).
The Opportunity
Every trade on one of North America's largest power futures exchanges runs through PostgreSQL. Every settlement, every margin calculation, every risk assessment. This isn't a database that supports the business-it is the business.
We're hiring a Database Reliability Engineer who can own our data layer end to end. Not someone who monitors dashboards and runs backups-someone who understands WAL internals, thinks in replication topologies, and has opinions about how data infrastructure should evolve. Someone who sees what we have today and already has ideas about where it needs to go.
You'll work inside a small, high-impact IT organization at a CFTC-regulated commodities exchange and clearing house. The systems you build and operate directly underpin billions of dollars in traded contracts. There is no abstraction layer between you and the work that matters.
Key Responsibilities
What You'll Own
  • Production PostgreSQL infrastructure across the full lifecycle: architecture, deployment, replication, monitoring, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and capacity planning
  • Streaming replication and high-availability configurations that meet the uptime expectations of a regulated financial exchange
  • Query and system-level performance analysis-diagnosing slow queries, optimizing execution plans, tuning shared_buffers, work_mem, and autovacuum, not just reading pg_stat output but knowing what to do about it
  • Backup and disaster recovery strategy using tools like Barman, including point-in-time recovery testing and validation
  • Data architecture evolution: modernizing data warehouse and reporting infrastructure, building ETL pipelines, and designing data flows that scale with the business
  • Data services across the organization: test data management, data obfuscation, data modeling, and supporting data needs for development, QA, and business teams
  • Operational support including on-call rotation for after-hours production database emergencies

What We Expect
We're not looking for someone who needs to be told what to do. We need someone who assesses the landscape, identifies what's broken or missing, proposes solutions, and drives them to completion. The right person hits the ground fast and builds trust through results.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
  • 5+ years hands-on PostgreSQL administration in production environments-not just dev/test, not just managed RDS
  • Deep understanding of PostgreSQL internals: WAL mechanics, MVCC, vacuum processing, the query planner and optimizer, connection handling, and lock management
  • Proven experience with physical and logical replication: setup, monitoring, failover, and troubleshooting split-brain scenarios
  • Strong SQL performance tuning skills: reading EXPLAIN ANALYZE output, identifying indexing strategies, understanding join algorithms, and resolving locking contention
  • Solid Linux systems administration (we run Ubuntu)-comfortable with systemd, filesystem performance, memory management, and networking fundamentals
  • Experience with backup/recovery tools (Barman, pgBackRest, or equivalent) and tested disaster recovery procedures
  • Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines and data transformation processes
  • Ability to work autonomously in a small team where you're expected to own problems from identification through resolution
  • Strong communication skills-you can explain a replication topology to a developer or a data availability timeline to a business stakeholder
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field

Highly Valued
  • Experience operating databases in regulated or financial services environments where uptime and audit trails are non-negotiable
  • Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, RDS, S3, networking)-we run a hybrid on-prem/cloud infrastructure
  • Infrastructure-as-code skills: Ansible and/or Terraform for automated, repeatable database deployments
  • Python scripting for automation, tooling, and data pipeline development
  • Experience with data obfuscation and masking techniques for non-production environments
  • Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, pgWatch, or similar)
  • Experience with cloud migration-moving database workloads from on-premises to AWS
  • Contributions to PostgreSQL community, conference talks, or published writing on database engineering topics

Why This Role
  • Your work directly supports a critical piece of U.S. energy market infrastructure-this isn't a CRUD app backing a SaaS product
  • Small team, large scope: you'll have real ownership and architectural influence, not just ticket duty
  • In-house platforms mean you work directly with the engineers who build the systems your databases serve
  • Part of the Deutsche Börse Group-global exchange operator with institutional stability
  • A leadership team that understands database engineering at a technical level and will invest in doing things right

Compensation
Salary Range: $170,000 - $210,000 per year base salary, when annualized
Pay Transparency Notice: The salary range is based on the D.C. metro area. The successful candidate's starting salary will vary depending on permissible, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to qualifications, skills, and experience. Nodal also offers a wide range of benefits and perks for full-time employees, which may include target bonuses.
Benefits
Nodal Employee Benefits and Perks: https://nodalexchange.pinpointhq.com
Nodal Exchange, LLC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, parental status, marital status, citizenship, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, veteran status, physical or mental health, hairstyle, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law with respect to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or in any other terms and conditions of employment. Nodal Exchange is an E-verify participant.

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