Senior Systems Administrator (Disaster Recovery Operations)
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Job Location:
Washington, AR - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 112000 - 179000
Posted on:
8 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Administrator Backup & Disaster Recovery to design operate and continuously enhance the organizations data protection backup and disaster recovery capabilities. This role ensures that critical systems and data can be restored quickly securely and reliably in the event of system failures cyber incidents or largescale disasters. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in enterprise backup platforms storage technologies and resiliency engineering.
Key Responsibilities
Backup & Recovery Engineering
- Lead enterprise backup and disaster recovery operations ensuring data protection recoverability and business continuity across servers applications databases and networked systems.
- Administer and optimize backup replication and recovery platforms (e.g. Commvault) across onpremises cloud and hybrid environments.
- Oversee backup schedules verify data integrity and manage backup storage capacity and retention.
- Ensure backup success restore validation and recovery readiness for missioncritical systems.
Disaster Recovery Planning & Execution
- Manage disaster recovery planning testing and execution including failover failback and recovery exercises.
- Conduct regular DR drills tabletop exercises and simulations; analyze results and drive improvements.
- Lead DRrelated technology projects from requirements gathering through implementation.
Storage & Resiliency Management
- Oversee storagebased protection solutions including SAN/NAS platforms snapshots replication and retention strategies.
- Implement security and resiliency controls such as encryption immutability airgapped backups and ransomware protection.
- Monitor performance capacity and compliance; continuously improve RPO/RTO and overall resiliency posture.
Operations Documentation & Governance
- Maintain detailed documentation for systems configurations DR plans and operational procedures.
- Ensure adherence to organizational policies regulatory requirements and audit standards.
- Collaborate with infrastructure security and application teams to ensure alignment of DR strategies with business needs.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in information technology or related field and 8 years of experience. 4 years of additional experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
- 5 years of experience in enterprise backup and disaster recovery operations.
- Strong knowledge of backup replication and recovery concepts architecture and best practices.
- Experience with enterprise backup platforms (e.g. Commvault Veeam NetBackup).
- Understanding of storage technologies (SAN NAS snapshots replication).
- DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification (e.g. Security).
- Active TS/SCI clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certifications in modern backup platforms (e.g. Veeam Commvault).
- Storage or infrastructure certifications (e.g. NetApp VMware).
- Experience with virtualization storage and cloud platforms (VMware HyperV AWS Azure).
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range
EEO
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Active Directory
- Computer information Technology
- PowerShell
- OS
- Windows
- Database
- SCCM
- Linux
- SAN
- Troubleshoot
- Backup
- Setup
- Technical Support
- UNIX
About Company
Peraton provides innovative solutions for the most sensitive and critical programs in government today, developed and executed by scientists, engineers, and other experts.
