Data Protection Engineer

Hybrid in Washington, DC, US • Posted 2 days ago • Updated 17 hours ago
Contract W2
Contract Independent
5 Years
No Travel Required
Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Fitment

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Skills

  • CommVault
  • Backup
  • Recovery

Summary

Position Overview - We are seeking a Senior Data Protection & Disaster Recovery Engineer to manage and support enterprise backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Commvault, enterprise backup environments, VMware/Hyper-V, SAN/NAS storage, and AWS/Azure. The engineer will be responsible for ensuring reliable data protection, troubleshooting backup failures, conducting recovery operations and DR exercises, and maintaining enterprise recovery capabilities.

Position Responsibilities

·        Administer, configure, monitor, and support enterprise Commvault backup and recovery environments.

·        Troubleshoot backup failures, job errors, system logs, connectivity issues, and recovery problems.

·        Configure and maintain Commvault backup policies, schedules, storage policies, retention, deduplication, and recovery operations.

·        Configure and support Commvault IntelliSnap and storage-array snapshot integrations.

·        Perform file, application, database, virtual machine, and system-level recovery operations.

·        Design and support enterprise disaster recovery, replication, failover, and failback solutions.

·        Participate in BCDR exercises, recovery testing, failover/failback activities, and after-action reviews.

·        Monitor backup success rates, capacity, performance, retention, recovery points, and operational health.

·        Support VMware and Hyper-V backup and recovery environments.

·        Work with NetApp, Pure Storage, SAN/NAS, and other enterprise storage platforms supporting data protection.

·        Support backup and recovery solutions across AWS and Azure environments.

·        Analyze backup and system logs to identify root causes and implement permanent corrective actions.

·        Develop and maintain backup, recovery, DR, and operational procedures.

·        Maintain recovery documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, SOPs, and DR plans.

·        Conduct recovery testing and validate RPO/RTO requirements.

·        Identify risks and vulnerabilities affecting backup and recovery environments and recommend corrective actions.

·        Automate backup administration and reporting using PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or scripting technologies.

·        Coordinate with storage, VMware, network, security, application, and cloud teams during complex incidents and recovery events.

·        Provide technical status updates, reports, and recommendations to management and stakeholders.

·        Participate in on-call support for critical backup and disaster recovery incidents.

Position Requirements

·        Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.

·        7+ years of enterprise data protection, backup, and disaster recovery experience.

·        Strong hands-on Commvault administration and troubleshooting experience is required.

·        Strong experience with CommCell, MediaAgent, backup policies, storage policies, deduplication, retention, and recovery operations.

·        Experience with Commvault IntelliSnap and storage-array snapshots is highly preferred.

·        Strong experience troubleshooting backup jobs, analyzing logs, and resolving backup failures.

·        Experience designing and supporting enterprise disaster recovery environments.

·        Experience with VMware and/or Hyper-V backup and recovery.

·        Experience with SAN/NAS storage platforms, particularly NetApp and Pure Storage, is preferred.

·        Experience with AWS and Azure backup, storage, and recovery services.

·        Strong understanding of RPO, RTO, replication, failover, failback, and recovery testing.

·        Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

·        Experience with automation using PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Shell scripting is preferred.

·        Strong documentation and communication skills.

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  • Dice Id: 10120268
  • Position Id: ADAU2624
  • Posted 2 days ago
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