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This role pays less than
73%
of similar roles. Most pay
$143,012–$211,200
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$148k
versus about
$177k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Cognizant
Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.
Cognizant currently has
330 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$100,000–$135,000
across 211 roles with salary data.
The Backup & Recovery Engineer joins the Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice to drive core modernization across infrastructure layers. This role involves designing backup policies including retention, RPO, and RTO schedules while managing full, incremental, and differential backups. Daily responsibilities include performing restore testing, conducting disaster recovery drills, and troubleshooting backup failures across tape, VTL, and disk-based systems. The position requires expertise in enterprise tools like Veeam, Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, and Rubrik or Cohesity. Candidates must manage AWS Backup, EBS snapshots, RDS backups, S3 versioning, and IAM roles. Technical skills include scripting with PowerShell, Python, or Bash, and using ServiceNow for ITSM. The work focuses on ransomware-resilience through immutable backups, compliance audits, and hybrid cloud backup integration to S3 or Storage Gateway.