[Hiring] Storage Backup Engineer @Koniag Government Services, LLC

Role Description

Koniag IT Systems (KITS) is seeking a Storage / Backup Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience to design, implement, and support enterprise storage and data protection solutions for a federal civilian customer. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with SAN/NAS storage platforms, enterprise backup software, and cloud-based backup and disaster recovery targets, and will play a key role in the customer's business disaster continuity and recovery (BDCR) initiative.

The Storage / Backup Engineer will be responsible for:

• Administering enterprise SAN and NAS storage platforms, including provisioning, capacity planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle management.
• Designing and maintaining enterprise backup architecture using tools such as Veeam, Commvault, or NetBackup across on-premises and AWS cloud targets.
• Supporting implementation of the customer's business disaster continuity and recovery (BDCR) solution, including replication, failover, and recovery testing for mission-critical financial systems.
• Monitoring backup job success rates, troubleshooting failures, and maintaining recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO) documented in the customer's continuity of operations (COOP) plan.
• Coordinating data migration from legacy on-premises storage to cloud-based storage (e.g., Amazon S3, EBS, FSx) as part of ongoing data center exit efforts.
• Implementing and maintaining storage security controls, including encryption at rest, access controls, and audit logging in accordance with NIST SP 800-53.
• Partnering with database and server engineering teams to align storage and backup design with application recovery requirements.
• Maintaining accurate documentation of storage architecture, backup schedules, and disaster recovery runbooks.
• Participating in scheduled DR/failover exercises and after-action reporting.

Qualifications

• 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).

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

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