Data Protection Engineer – Veeam Certified, VMCE
Private Label Staff
full-time
Posted on:
Location: Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Collaborate with the Client’s storage and backup support teams and onsite Resident Experts to create and manage project plans centered around backup and data integrity activities
- Track tasks and deliverables across multiple backup and continuity-related workstreams and provide routine status reporting and documentation to stakeholders
- Implement and enforce Client-defined data retention standards and policies, including data lifecycle management and backup file retention best practices
- Align data storage and backup allocations with Client-defined service levels and SLAs and establish/maintain grandfather-father-son (GFS) backup strategies and rotation schedules
- Define alarm thresholds, ensure proper alarm routing, monitor and tune backup software performance, and ensure compliance with Client policies
- Conduct and document software and regression tests on backup and data protection platforms; support version control and perform code upgrades per Client policies
- Monitor data movement and replication across systems and geographic locations; support Business Resumption Planning (BRP) and perform regular data integrity validations
- Monitor disk space utilization on backup storage volumes; respond to failed backups, recovery operations, or replication errors; assist in disaster recovery testing or invocations
- Monitor backup software logs and storage infrastructure health; respond to system performance alerts and resolve integrity-related incidents; perform host-level onboarding tasks
- Maintain accurate logs, configuration documentation, and knowledge of the Client’s business continuity and disaster recovery plans; support DR invocation or test events as applicable
Requirements
- Public Trust Clearance
- 5+ years of experience managing enterprise data backup and recovery solutions
- Proven experience with data integrity management, GFS strategies, and continuity planning
- Familiarity with federal IT environments, SLAs, and compliance standards
- Strong understanding of backup and storage software (e.g., Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, etc.)
- Experience in scripting/automation of backup operations (PowerShell, Python preferred)
- Certifications (Preferred): Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) or equivalent
- Vendor certifications (Preferred): Cohesity Certified, Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE), Commvault Certified
- CompTIA Security+ or DoD 8570-compliant equivalent (Preferred)
- ITIL v4 Foundation (Preferred)