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Enterprise Backup & Recovery Engineer
ASM ResearchSpringfield, 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
Other Job Specific Skills
- Proficiency with enterprise backup software (e.g., Veritas NetBackup, Commvault) Cohesity, Rubrik and backup appliance.
- direct experience engineering storage solutions involving SAN, NAS, and cloud storage.
- direct experience providing IT operations support for various operating systems and their file systems; with a strong preference for Windows Server 2019/2022/2025 and Red Hat Linux 7/8/9.
- Knowledge of database agents and how to back up key applications like
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