Backup and Recovery Specialist, Mid

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company • Oklahoma City, OK • 5h ago

The Backup and Recovery Specialist, Mid administers and optimizes enterprise backup and recovery services that safeguard large-scale data sets and business-critical applications in a federal IT environment. This role designs and refines backup policies, storage architectures, and recovery workflows to align with business continuity and disaster recovery objectives. The specialist performs advanced troubleshooting for failed jobs and complex restore scenarios across hybrid on-premises and cloud infrastructures while providing technical guidance to junior staff and stakeholders on data protection standards and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Architect and maintain backup solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads, including policy design, job scheduling, and capacity planning.

Analyze backup infrastructure performance and tune concurrency, bandwidth usage, and storage tiers to meet stringent recovery time and recovery point targets.

Perform complex restore operations such as database point-in-time recovery, granular file and application restores, and disaster recovery exercises.

Implement and maintain backup encryption, key management, and role-based access controls to protect sensitive data in transit and at rest.

Document and test disaster recovery runbooks, coordinating periodic failover and restoration drills with operations and application teams.

Integrate backup systems with monitoring and reporting solutions to provide dashboards, alerts, and compliance metrics for leadership.

Troubleshoot backup job failures and performance bottlenecks, driving root-cause analysis and remediation across the backup environment.

Mentor junior backup and infrastructure staff, sharing best practices for data protection, recovery operations, and documentation.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.

4-7 years of experience in data backup and recovery, storage engineering, systems administration, or related IT infrastructure roles.

Proficient understanding of backup and recovery principles and technologies, including support for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.

Hands-on experience with enterprise backup tools such as Veritas NetBackup, Veeam, CommVault, or similar platforms in medium to large environments.

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with proven ability to resolve complex backup, storage, and recovery issues independently.

Experience using monitoring tools and documenting backup configurations, runbooks, and recovery procedures.

Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain and maintain the required investigation level.

U.S. citizenship required.

Preferred Qualifications

Relevant certifications such as Veritas Certified Specialist, Veeam Certified Engineer, or CISSP.

Experience integrating backup and recovery platforms with enterprise monitoring, reporting, and compliance dashboards.

Familiarity with highly regulated federal IT environments, including security and compliance controls for protected data.

Background leading or coordinating disaster recovery exercises, tabletop scenarios, and recovery testing initiatives.

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.

$65,400 - $70,567.57

EEO Requirements

It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, gender identity, veteran status, 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, veteran status, disability, gender identity, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.

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