Hiring: Backup & Recovery Engineer - Secret Company: Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions Location: San Antonio, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 22:54:33 Target Skills & Keywords : Change Management, Secret Clearance About the job Experience: •3-6 years of backup/recovery or storage engineering experience. •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. •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. Required Skills: •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. •Partner cross-functionally 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. Qualifications: •Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, or related field. •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. •Operational 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). Compensation: •$90,000 - $108,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!