Data Protection Engineer, Cohesity
Private Label Staff
full-time
Posted on:
Location: District of Columbia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Collaborate with Client storage and backup support teams and onsite Resident Experts
- Create and manage project plans centered around backup and data integrity activities
- Track tasks and deliverables across multiple backup and continuity-related workstreams
- Provide routine status reporting and documentation to stakeholders
- Implement and enforce Client-defined data retention standards and policies
- Support data lifecycle management and best practices for backup file retention
- Align data storage and backup allocations with Client-defined service levels and SLAs
- Establish and maintain grandfather-father-son (GFS) backup strategies and rotation schedules
- Define alarm thresholds and ensure proper alarm routing based on severity
- Maintain policies related to data integrity, retention, and restoration
- 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 processes and perform code upgrades per Client policies
- Monitor data movement and replication across systems and geographic locations
- Ensure backup and recovery processes are properly integrated and tested
- Support Business Resumption Planning (BRP) and perform regular data integrity validations
- Monitor disk space utilization on backup storage volumes and respond to failed backups
- Assist in Client-driven disaster recovery testing or invocations and maintain accurate logs
- Monitor backup software logs and storage infrastructure health and respond to incidents
- Perform host-level tasks to onboard new systems into the backup environment
- Maintain current and accurate configuration documentation and knowledge of DR plans
Requirements
- Public Trust Clearance required
- 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)
- Experience in scripting/automation of backup operations (PowerShell, Python preferred)
- Experience with project management and coordination of backup/continuity workstreams
- Ability to collaborate with customer stakeholders and internal support teams
- 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