Storage Backup Engineer

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🕒 August 21

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Koniag Government Services

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1975

🏛️ Government

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

Government • Defense • Consulting

Koniag Government Services is an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) that provides technical, professional, and operational expertise to the U. S. public sector. KGS supports Defense & Intelligence, Federal Civilian, and Health customers with enterprise solutions, professional services, and operations management, and emphasizes mission-focused outcomes, contracting speed (ANC direct awards), and strategic/technology partnerships. The company positions itself as a mission partner delivering people, technology, and program management to government customers.

📋 Description

• Administer enterprise SAN and NAS storage platforms, including provisioning, capacity planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle management • Design and maintain enterprise backup architecture using Veeam, Commvault, or NetBackup across on-premises and AWS cloud targets • Support implementation of the customer's business disaster continuity and recovery (BDCR) solution, including replication, failover, and recovery testing for mission-critical financial systems • Monitor backup job success rates, troubleshoot failures, and maintain recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO) documented in the customer's continuity of operations (COOP) plan • Coordinate data migration from legacy on-premises storage to cloud-based storage such as Amazon S3, EBS, and FSx • Implement and maintain storage security controls, including encryption at rest, access controls, and audit logging in accordance with NIST SP 800-53 • Partner with database and server engineering teams to align storage and backup design with application recovery requirements • Maintain accurate documentation of storage architecture, backup schedules, and disaster recovery runbooks • Participate in scheduled DR/failover exercises and after-action reporting

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent professional experience • Minimum of 5 years of experience administering enterprise storage (SAN/NAS) and backup systems • Hands-on experience with enterprise backup platforms (Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, or similar) • Experience with cloud storage and backup targets (AWS S3/EBS/FSx or equivalent) • Working knowledge of data protection concepts including RTO/RPO, replication, and disaster recovery testing • Familiarity with storage security best practices, including encryption and access controls • Understanding of immutable/air-gapped backups and resilience standards • Strong troubleshooting and documentation skills • Ability to obtain Public Trust clearance • Experience working in a federal government IT environment • Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, FISMA, or NIST • Vendor certification in a major storage or backup platform • Experience supporting a formal BDCR or COOP program for a federal financial or mission-critical system • Experience with storage migration as part of a data center consolidation effort • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or AWS storage-focused specialty knowledge

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurance • 401K with company matching • Flexible spending accounts • Paid holidays • Three weeks paid time off • Extraordinary benefits package • Competitive compensation