Backup Recovery Engineer

POSITION OVERVIEW   

The Backup & Recovery Engineer plays a critical role in safeguarding the performance and integrity of enterprise environments. This position is responsible for architecting, administering, monitoring, and continuously optimizing enterprise-grade backup, replication, and disaster recovery (DR) solutions across hybrid cloud and on-prem deployments.

This hands-on role requires experience with enterprise platforms such as Commvault, Veeam, Veritas NetBackup, and Quest Rapid Recovery—a leading solution known for its application-aware snapshots, near-instant recovery, and seamless cloud integration. This role is remote. 

Please Note for U.S. Applicants: While we’re excited to grow our team, we can only consider candidates who reside in U.S. states where GeorgeJon is already registered to do business. Currently, we are able to hire in the following states: AZ, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MI, MO, NC, ND, NJ, NM, OH, OK, SC, TN, VA, WI. We appreciate your interest and encourage you to check back as we expand into additional states.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Backup Infrastructure Design & Deployment

• Architect and implement enterprise backup solutions using tools like Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, and Quest Rapid Recovery
• Leverage Quest Rapid Recovery's Rapid Snap for Applications to create incremental-forever snapshots of mission-critical workloads (Windows/Linux), capturing full application states every five minutes
• Configure backup targets across D2D, D2T, SAN/NAS, and cloud tiers

Operational Monitoring & Incident Response

• Establish and refine monitoring/alerting protocols for backup jobs, replication tasks, and DR status
• Use tools like Quest’s Verified Recovery to perform automated integrity checks and ensure restorable snapshots
• Troubleshoot failures, bottlenecks, and restore issues in real-time

Disaster Recovery Architecture

• Collaborate on DR strategy and develop automated runbooks
• Utilize Rapid Recovery’s Live Recovery and Virtual Standby features to ensure near-zero downtime and quick failover of workloads to VMs in the event of outages
• Conduct regular DR simulations across VMware, Hyper-V, and physical platforms

Data Integrity & Compliance

• Enforce retention schedules, legal holds, and encryption strategies in compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and other frameworks
• Leverage Universal Recovery in Quest to restore everything from single files to entire systems—even to dissimilar hardware

Storage Optimization

• Analyze usage trends and adjust de-duplication/compression policies in platforms like Rapid Recovery to maximize storage efficiency (up to 95% savings)
• Plan capacity across on-prem and cloud (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)

Automation & Scripting

• Use PowerShell, Bash, or Python to automate tasks, integrate with tools like ServiceNow, Zabbix, or Splunk, and streamline backup operations

Documentation & Knowledge Management

• Maintain thorough documentation of backup designs, DR plans, configuration files, and recovery procedures
• Contribute to SOP libraries and internal knowledge bases

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3–5+ years in enterprise environments with backup/recovery systems across Windows/Linux workloads
• Hands-on with at least one enterprise B&R suite (Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, Rubrik, Quest Rapid Recovery)
• Experience with vSphere/Hyper-V, plus integration with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Working knowledge of NAS/SAN (NFS, SMB, iSCSI), cloud object storage (S3), and networking performance considerations
• Proficiency in PowerShell or similar; bonus for experience scripting DR tests or backup APIs

PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS

• Commvault Certified Professional or Engineer
• Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE)
• Quest Rapid Recovery training/certification (preferred but not required)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Backup and Site Recovery
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

SOFT SKILLS & WORK STYLE 

• Meticulous, methodical, and obsessed with operational excellence
• Big-picture thinker who engineers systems for redundancy and recovery
• Cool-headed under pressure, especially in SLA-bound environments
• Strong communicator and a natural documentarian—you leave systems better than you found them