Backup & Recovery Engineer - Secret

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 (such as Security certification) 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).