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Backup Recovery Engineer

Arlington, VA💼 Full-time💰 $78,600–$78,600🗓 2026-08-18 → 2026-09-25

Core

Manage backup and recovery processes, ensure data integrity, and troubleshoot backup issues for US federal government clients.

Role type

Backup Recovery Engineer

Builds

Backup infrastructure and disaster recovery plans for defense, national security, and public safety organizations

Domain

IT Operations / Disaster Recovery / Federal Government

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

backup/recovery implementation, disaster recovery planning, tape rotation management, capacity planning, data retention policy management, backup schedule optimization, system monitoring, restore testing

Preferred skills

IT service management framework integration, continuous process improvement

Technologies

backup systems, tape storage, off-site storage media

Responsibilities

Manage daily backup job completions and resolve failures, conduct regular backup verifications and test restores, assist in developing and testing disaster recovery and COOP plans, manage tape rotations and off-site storage, assist in capacity planning for backup infrastructure, collaborate with system and database administrators, document recovery procedures, participate in disaster recovery exercises

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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