Data Protection Engineer

GridIron IT is seeking a Data Protection Engineer local to Washington D.C.

Clearable US Citizen required.

Position Summary:

• Mid-level engineer.
• Part of the Enterprise Data Protection & Recovery (EDPR) Team in support of daily operations and maintenance with a focus on processing enterprise backup and restoration requests in support of:
  • Member offices
  • Enterprise messaging
  • Financial systems
  • Vendor servers
  • CAO servers
  • Databases
  • Application servers
• Diversified schedule at all data center locations, via telework, and participate in 24/7 on-call technical support
• Duration of 1920 hours/year as a base plus 2 optional years.

Qualifications/Required Skills:

• Evaluation, implementation, and management of production Commvault data protection software, as well as Commvault Hyperscale, AWS, PURE FlashArray & FlashBlade, and NetApp data protection targets.
• Implementation and management of enterprise data protection and recovery systems.
• Communicating technical topics to elected officials, senior executives, managers, and IT professionals in a manner appropriate to their knowledge level.
• Ability to comprehend and integrate complex computer technology and software into an effective enterprise data protection and recovery strategy.
• Maintaining effective working relationships with colleagues, users, contractors, and vendors.
• Relevant operating systems security (Windows, ESX, Solaris, Linux, etc.).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve issues with network/operating systems.
• Experience with a combination of PURE Snapshots, Oracle Cloud, AWS S3 & EC2, GCP, Commvault Metallic, and/ore Microsoft cloud (Azure, O365, Teams, SharePoint).
• Understanding of VMware ESX, vSphere, and vCenter desired.
• Understanding of cloud technologies (backup and target) desired.
• Understanding of IT security and encryption technologies desired.
• Understanding of Network Attached Storage (NAS) technologies desired.
• Understanding of block and object storage desired.
• Understanding of BCDR procedures desired.
• Understanding of DFS desired.
• Understanding of Converged infrastructure technologies desired.
• Understanding of Data center layout and designs desired.
• Knowledge of Hybrid, private, and public clouds desired.
• Understanding of Active/Active configurations desired.
• Understanding of Kubernetes and containers desired.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.