Disaster Recovery & COOP Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Disaster Recovery & COOP Engineer to join our team in the greater DMV area supporting the Army National Guard.

Responsibilities

• Architect develop and maintain enterprise disaster recovery (DR) and Continuity of Operations (COOP) capabilities for systems applications and cybersecurity platforms.
• Design COOP plans backup/recovery procedures contingency playbooks failover architectures and recovery point/time objectives aligned with RMF DoD Army and ARNG directives.
• Maintain COOP environments coordinate failover testing and contingency exercises and validate recovery procedures to ensure continuity of essential services during disruptions.
• Integrate redundancy continuity and recovery requirements into system and network designs to ensure resilience against cyber incidents infrastructure failures and mission disruptions.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity engineering SOC/CIRT enterprise architects and system owners to assess resilience identify continuity gaps and recommend architectural improvements.
• Lead development and execution of DR/COOP exercises capture lessons learned and update playbooks runbooks and transitiontooperations artifacts.
• Support outage monitoring incident coordination and operational recovery activities; provide technical leadership during degraded operations and failover events.
• Produce recovery strategies technical recovery designs system analysis documentation and decisiongrade briefings for program leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement of DR/COOP capabilities through automation validation testing and modernization initiatives.

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Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance.

• Candidate must meet ONE of the following:

  • Masters degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science Software Engineering Cybersecurity Data Science or a related field; OR
  • Relevant DoD/military training (examples: SANS SEC545; SANS LDR512; Joint Cyber Analysis Course (JCAC)); OR
  • Relevant professional certification or equivalent experience (examples: ISC2 CISSP; CompTIA CASP; AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional; CISM; GIAC GWEB).

• Required experience and skills:

  • DR/COOP systems engineering or resiliency architecture experience with at least 3 years leading enterprise DR/COOP design and exercises.
  • Proven ability to design and validate failover architectures backup/recovery strategies (including RMAN/DB backups storage replication and cloud DR) and endtoend recovery playbooks.
  • Handson experience conducting COOP/DR exercises failover testing recovery validation and scripting/automation for recovery procedures.
  • Strong knowledge of RMF/ATO impacts on continuity STIG/CSG considerations for recoverable systems and evidence requirements for accreditation and audits.
  • Experience coordinating crossfunctional recovery activities with SOC/CIRT NOC system owners and external providers during incidents.
  • Ability to produce decisiongrade recovery plans technical briefs POA&Ms and exercise afteraction reports.

• Desired:

  • Prior DoD/ARNG COOP/DR or enterprise resilience experience.
  • Experience with cloud failover patterns multiregion replication orchestration of recovery workflows and automated recovery validation.
  • Familiarity with business continuity planning service continuity metrics and integration of DR/COOP with incident response and operational exercises.

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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 worlds 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 cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.