Lead Data Protection Engineer, Senior; Top Secret Clearance

Lead Data Protection Engineer, Senior

Clear Creek Federal is part of the Seneca Nation Group (SNG) portfolio of companies. SNG is Seneca Holdings' federal government contracting business that meets mission-critical needs of federal civilian, defense, and intelligence community customers. Our portfolio comprises multiple subsidiaries that participate in the Small Business Administration 8(a) program.

Clear Creek Federal is seeking a Lead Data Protection Engineer [Senior] in Washington, DC
-or
- Beltsville MD
-or
- Lakewood, CO.

The Lead Data Protection Engineer (Senior) is responsible for leading the design, implementation, administration, and operational support of enterprise data protection, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions supporting mission-critical federal systems. This position serves as the technical lead for a team of Data Protection Engineers and provides strategic direction for data protection services, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise data assets.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• 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.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for formal education requirements where permitted by contract.
• 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.

Certifications:

• Active Commvault Certification.
• Additional industry certifications such as Security+, CISSP, VMware Certified Professional (VCP), Microsoft, or related infrastructure certifications are highly desirable.

Technical skills:

• Commvault Backup and Recovery
• Commvault Command Center
• Backup Architecture Design
• Data Retention and Lifecycle Management
• Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing
• Backup Monitoring and Reporting
• Data Protection Compliance
• Incident Response and Troubleshooting
• Enterprise Storage Technologies
• VMware vSphere Administration and Data Protection Integration
• Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery
• Enterprise…