Senior Systems Administrator (Disaster Recovery Operations)

We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Administrator - Backup & Disaster Recovery to design, operate, and continuously enhance the organization's 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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's 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 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 world's 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 can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.