Lead Data Protection Engineer (Active Top Secret Clearance)
About The Position
Clear Creek Federal, part of the Seneca Nation Group (SNG) portfolio, is seeking a Lead Data Protection Engineer (Senior) in Washington, DC, Beltsville, MD, or Lakewood, CO. This role is responsible for leading the design, implementation, administration, and operational support of enterprise data protection, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical federal systems. The position serves as the technical lead for a team of Data Protection Engineers, providing strategic direction for data protection services to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise data assets. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Commvault technologies, hold an active Commvault certification, and possess proven leadership experience managing a team in a highly secure federal environment. This role requires collaboration across various IT teams, including infrastructure, storage, virtualization, cybersecurity, network, and systems engineering, to ensure comprehensive data protection across a predominantly on-premises, highly virtualized enterprise environment supporting mission-critical workloads.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
- Minimum eight (8) years of progressive experience supporting enterprise data protection, backup, and recovery environments.
- Minimum three (3) years of experience serving in a technical lead or team leadership capacity.
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing a team of approximately six (6) personnel.
- Extensive experience designing, implementing, and administering enterprise-scale Commvault environments supporting large, highly virtualized on-premises infrastructures.
- Experience supporting enterprise backup and recovery operations within large, complex on-premises and VMware virtualized IT environments.
- Experience supporting enterprise virtualization platforms and protecting virtual machine workloads in large-scale data center environments.
- Experience with disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution.
- Active Commvault Certification.
- Active Top Secret (TS) Clearance required. Secret clearance is acceptable, but must be willing and able to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Additional relevant experience may be substituted for formal education requirements where permitted by contract.
- Additional industry certifications such as Security+, CISSP, VMware Certified Professional (VCP), Microsoft, or related infrastructure certifications are highly desirable.
- Avamar administration and migration experience
- Experience integrating Commvault with hybrid or cloud-based backup and recovery solutions
- Enterprise storage platforms
- Automation and scripting technologies (PowerShell, Python, or similar)
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of six (6) Data Protection Engineers responsible for enterprise backup, recovery, and data protection operations.
- Design, implement, configure, optimize, and maintain enterprise data protection solutions utilizing Commvault technologies.
- Lead the protection and recovery strategy for enterprise virtualized workloads, ensuring high availability and recoverability of mission-critical systems hosted within on-premises data centers.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance for all data protection initiatives, projects, and operational activities.
- Monitor enterprise backup environments and ensure successful completion of backups, replications, restorations, and disaster recovery activities across large-scale on-premises and VMware virtualized infrastructures.
- Manage and oversee daily data protection operations, including monitoring, reporting, incident management, and compliance activities.
- Support migration efforts from legacy backup technologies, including Avamar, to enterprise Commvault solutions.
- Develop and maintain data backup, retention, archival, and recovery strategies in accordance with federal regulations and organizational policies.
- Respond to service requests and incidents related to data protection systems, performing root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
- Participate in and support disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution activities.
- Collaborate with systems, storage, virtualization, network, and cybersecurity engineering teams to integrate enterprise-wide data protection solutions across predominantly on-premises infrastructure.
- Conduct regular audits, health assessments, and performance evaluations of enterprise backup, storage, and VMware-based data protection infrastructure.
- Develop metrics, dashboards, and executive-level reporting related to backup compliance, recovery readiness, and operational performance.
- Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, standard operating procedures, recovery procedures, system configurations, and knowledge articles.
- Ensure compliance with federal security requirements, data handling regulations, and organizational policies.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and provide after-hours support as required.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Benefits and perks
- Flexible work-life balance
- Professional development opportunities
- Performance and recognition programs
- Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
- Voluntary benefit programs (critical illness, hospital, and accident)
- Health savings and flexible spending accounts
- Retirement 401K plan
- Paid leave programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
