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Empower AI

Sr Backup Engineer - Hosting

Empower AI, Morningside, Maryland, United States

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Sr Backup Engineer - Hosting Overview Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2024 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company's commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Engineers and Product Managers to implement functionality

Ability to meet deadlines and satisfy requirements from other Engineers and Product Management

Designing and delivering efficient and comprehensive best practices

Architect, deploy and help maintain cloud‑first, services‑first secure solutions in support of our next‑generation services, leveraging DevOps principles

Drive the security architecture and implementation for APIs and Microservices deployed on Kubernetes Services

Work with third parties and tools on Cloud security and compliance including regular security scanning, penetration testing

Architecting and maintaining multiple automated pipelines that build, test, security scan, and deploy various code bases

Communicate effectively and efficiently across all divisions including with the business, technical teams, and leaders

Analyzing and streamlining the existing DevOps practices

Simplifying the development process and operations

Qualifications A minimum of 10 years' experience in backup administration support for large‑scale environments specifically including:

10 years' experience installing and configuring backups

Working knowledge of advanced backup tools

10 years' experience writing scripts with a scripting language

Familiarity with DevOps and ITIL processes

Familiarity with on‑premise or Cloud‑to‑Cloud backup migrations

Working knowledge of database backup and restore on NetBackup, Backup Exec, and VEEAM

Preferred Education and Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in Related Field

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to do the following:

Communicate verbally and respond to verbal communications in person and over the phone

Communicate clearly and succinctly in writing, primarily utilizing a keyboard

Engage in intermittent physical activity, including bending, reaching, lifting, filing, and prolonged periods of sitting

Travel minimally, via car or plane, which requires ability to manage luggage, laptop, and briefing materials (up to 25 pounds)

All hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm's overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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