Backup & Data Protection Engineer with Security Clearance

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 We have an exciting opportunity at the Department of State! The Backup & Data Protection Engineer provides data backup and recovery services for all customer facilities from the NCR (EOC).

Responsibilities

• You will be required to maintain and enhance redundancy within the primary data center at ESOC/West (2N) and at the separate DR data center (Modular Data Center) to enable recovery of critical applications, databases, and services.
• This role requires you to enable seamless, automated failover between primary and secondary 2N locations where possible.
• Implement and maintain data backup and replication strategies to ensure data integrity and availability, including regular backup testing and validation.
• Implement continuous monitoring of DR infrastructure, data replication status, and failover readiness, with automated alerting for anomalies or failures.
• Maintain clear criteria and procedures for DR activation, including escalation paths, decision authority, and coordination with incident response processes.
• Maintain SOPs for manual recovery as needed. Qualifications EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE The following are the education and experience required for this position:
• 5+ years
• Bachelor's in IT or related field
• Secret Security Clearance  PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:
• Comp TIA Sec+, ITIL 4 Foundation Certification(s) 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:    *

• Sitting for long periods
• Standing for long periods
• Ambulate throughout an office
• Ambulate between several buildings
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required
• Repeatedly lift and carry weight up to 40 pounds
• Travel by land or air transportation 10 % .