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Enterprise Backup & Recovery Engineer

ASM Research
Springfield, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 11 Dec 2025

About the role

Applies expertise to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans. Performs highly specialized technical tasks associated with cutting-edge technologies. Known as a Subject Matter Expert in the technical field or area.

  • Develop and implement backup and recovery solutions to meet business needs and service level agreements.
  • Configure, install, and maintain hardware and software for data backup and storage.
  • Perform data restores and disaster recovery tests.
  • Monitor backup jobs, analyze logs, and troubleshoot and resolve failures.
  • Manage storage infrastructure.
  • Ensure data integrity and security.
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation of configurations and processes, and generate reports for audits and compliance.
  • Primarily responsible for the design, configuration, and implementation of the data storage environment with particular emphasis on backup and recovery solutions.
  • Provide both guidance and hands on build support.
  • Perform regular data restores and conduct disaster recovery drills to verify backup integrity and preparedness.
  • Manage and optimize storage systems, analyze capacity needs, and ensure secure storage of backup data. 
  • Work with other IT teams, such as system administrators and database administrators, to identify and resolve data protection issues.
  • Configuring on-prem clients for cloud backups.
  • Forecasting storage needs based on backup metrics and usage patterns.
  • Optimizing backup and recovery system performance.
  • Creating and maintaining system configuration documentation and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a related field; Master’s Degree preferred
  • 10 years of experience and a BS and MS degree.  Bachelor of Science (BS) can be substituted with an additional 4 years of related experience.  Masters (MS) can be substituted with an additional 2 years of related experience.
  • 5+ years providing technical guidance for directing and monitoring information systems operations. designs, builds, and implements network systems

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