Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior System Engineer II (Backup) to work in our Pocatello, ID office.
The Contractor shall be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base data backup system, but for all features, components, and application dependencies. To include Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Tape, local disk, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc.
Position requirements and duties of the Systems Engineer II (Backups):
- Design, implement, and provide ongoing support of the Backup Infrastructure.
- Serve as the advanced matter expert for all Backup environments.
- Create and maintain backup infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools on Linux and Windows environments.
- Provision/configure required backups for Linux and Window servers.
- Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the backup infrastructure.
- Monitor and correct backup issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks and configure alerts for proactive response times.
- Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, SAN and tape infrastructure and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions.
- Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability to include verification of the replication of data, fail over copies, redundant data sets.
- Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
- Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
- Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as monitoring backup storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
- Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
- Provide 3rd level support.
- Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
- Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.
- Integrate systems with Windows and Linux as it applies to core service dependencies.
- Document system configurations to include passwords, access controls, version number, and revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory to include hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
- Continually transition knowledge to the Government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
- Provide real-time reporting of backup storage consumed and utilized resources to include performance metrics for tape and disk space consumption, storage availability, performance, and trends.
- Must have a current Top-Secret Clearance with the capability of obtaining SCI / CI-Poly to meet contract requirement.
- A minimum of six years’ experience with enterprise backup and recovery solutions such as Cohesity NetBackup.
Skills Required
- Current Top-Secret clearance with capability to obtain SCI / CI-Poly
- Design, implement, and support enterprise backup infrastructure
- Experience with SAN, NAS, Tape, Fibre Channel, iSCSI
- Backup administration on Linux and Windows environments
- Experience with OEM and third-party backup tools and integrations
- Ability to write and maintain custom scripts for automation and monitoring
- Maintain security, redundancy, replication verification, and recovery processes
- Minimum six years' experience with enterprise backup and recovery solutions (e.g., Cohesity, NetBackup)
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
