Rubrik Engineer

Role: Senior Rubrik Backup & Recovery Engineer (Rubrik / VMware / Windows / Linux / Disaster Recovery)
Location: Springfield, VA (100% On-site)
Duration: 6 Months (08/22/2026 – 02/22/2027)
Pay Rate: $53.00/hr On W2 ($60.00/hr C2C)

Role Summary
Seeking a 7+ years experienced Senior Rubrik Backup & Recovery Engineer for a 100% on-site role in Springfield, VA. The ideal candidate will possess deep hands-on expertise implementing, administering, monitoring, and maintaining Rubrik enterprise backup, recovery, and data protection solutions across on-premises and cloud environments. Key duties include configuring backup policies and retention schedules, executing workload migrations to Rubrik, performing disaster recovery (DR) testing, conducting vulnerability remediation, and authoring comprehensive operational runbooks and Transition to Operations (TTO) documentation.

Key Responsibilities
* Rubrik Administration & Platform Health: Administer and maintain the enterprise Rubrik backup environment—monitoring job performance, system health, storage capacity, and platform stability.
* Backup Configuration & DR Testing: Configure backup SLA policies, retention schedules, and recovery targets; execute backup restorations and routine disaster recovery (DR) testing.
* Workload Onboarding & Migration: Onboard new servers, databases, applications, and cloud workloads into Rubrik, driving the migration of legacy workloads from legacy backup tools to Rubrik.
* Upgrades & Vulnerability Remediation: Perform software upgrades, system maintenance, patch deployments, and security vulnerability remediation on Rubrik clusters.
* Documentation & Transition (TTO): Author solution design documents, SOPs, and operational runbooks; conduct knowledge transfer sessions to execute seamless Transition to Operations (TTO).

Required Skills
* Core Experience: 7+ Years of dedicated Backup & Recovery Administration experience in enterprise environments.
* Primary Technology: Hands-on experience with Rubrik Backup & Recovery solutions (cluster administration, policy management, data protection).
* Infrastructure Environment: Windows Server, Enterprise Linux, VMware vSphere/vCenter, and enterprise storage.
* DR & Methodologies: Backup, recovery, disaster recovery (DR) planning, business continuity, and operational troubleshooting.
* Documentation & Process: Authoring technical design documents, SOPs, runbooks, and leading Transition to Operations (TTO) handovers.

Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with Rubrik Cloud Vault and Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud environments.
* ITIL Foundation Certification.
* Rubrik Certified System Administrator (RCSA) or equivalent enterprise backup technology certification.