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versus about
$178k
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. The engineer will perform restore testing, disaster recovery drills, and troubleshoot failures across tape, VTL, and disk-based systems. Key responsibilities include managing AWS Backup, EBS snapshots, RDS automated backups, S3 versioning, and Glacier archival. The position requires proficiency with enterprise tools like Veeam, Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, and Rubrik or Cohesity. Candidates must utilize PowerShell, Python, or Bash for automation, handle ServiceNow ITSM tasks, and ensure ransomware resilience through immutable backups. The work focuses on hybrid backup to cloud and maintaining secure, compliant data environments.