Backup Recovery Engineer

Are you energized by solving complex recovery challenges and strengthening enterprise resilience? Our client is seeking a Backup Recovery Engineer to support an AI-driven vulnerability remediation program and help ensure backup and recovery systems remain secure, reliable, and ready when it matters. In this role, you’ll work in a large production environment, coordinating with Windows, Linux, virtualization, cloud, security, and application teams to assess, remediate, test, and document recovery readiness.

Job Title:Backup Recovery Engineer

Location:Remote (USA)

Pay Range:$45 - 52/hour all inclusive

What's the Job?

• Assess backup and recovery architecture, including protection policies, schedules, retention, repositories, media servers, agents, replication, and cloud tiers.
• Review vulnerability findings and vendor advisories impacting backup servers, appliances, agents, and management consoles; plan and execute approved remediation.
• Administer enterprise backup platforms such as Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam, or equivalent across physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.
• Perform and document file, VM, database, and bare-metal restore tests; validate recovery against required RPO and RTO targets.
• Implement ransomware-resilient controls, including immutability, isolation, encryption, MFA/RBAC, privileged-access restrictions, and secure retention.

What's Needed?

• 5+ years of enterprise backup, recovery, or data-protection engineering experience in a large production environment.
• Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise platform (Commvault, NetBackup, Rubrik, Cohesity, or Veeam) and familiarity with a second platform.
• Experience protecting VMware and/or Nutanix workloads, Windows and Linux servers, and common enterprise databases or applications.
• Deep understanding of full, incremental, synthetic, and snapshot-based protection, including retention, deduplication, replication, and recovery workflows.
• Knowledge of ransomware recovery and secure backup practices (immutable storage, air-gap or logical isolation, encryption, MFA/RBAC, least-privilege administration), plus working knowledge of RPO/RTO and disaster recovery concepts.

What's in it for me?

• Work on enterprise backup and recovery systems that directly support resilience and secure operations.
• Contribute to vulnerability remediation efforts by translating findings into validated, operationally sound changes.
• Strengthen recovery readiness through restore testing, runbooks, and audit-ready documentation.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, security, storage, and application teams in a coordinated enterprise environment.
• Be part of a program with an initial 12-month engagement and potential extension up to 24 months.

Upon completion of waiting period consultants are eligible for:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account
• Health Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Business Travel Insurance
• 401(k), Plus Match
• Weekly Pay

If this is a role that interests you and you'd like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you!

About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells.

ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands – Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells – creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2023 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 14th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.