Systems Engineer III

About the Role

The Senior III, Systems Engineer position exists to provide direct input to project plans, schedules, and methodology in the operation and maintenance of multiple system environments, with a strong emphasis on enterprise data storage, backup and recovery solutions, and hybrid cloud infrastructure in support of the data management team. The candidate responds to system management alerts to handle system/operations exceptions within the assigned enterprise systems of product offerings.

This position is also responsible for triage change management support and contributes to strategic planning and operational excellence for data protection and storage optimization.

• Provide strategic input to project plans, schedules, and operational methodologies for the maintenance, optimization, and evolution of enterprise storage, backup/recovery, and hybrid cloud environments supporting the data management team.
• Monitor system management alerts and respond promptly to handle storage, backup, infrastructure, and data protection exceptions, ensuring high availability, data integrity, and minimal business impact.
• Diagnose complex system, storage performance, and data protection problems using logs, traces, performance metrics (I/O, latency, throughput), and advanced diagnostic tools.
• Manage and administer enterprise storage arrays (Dell Unity, Power Store, Power Scale, and equivalent platforms), including provisioning, volume/LUN management, replication, snapshots, tiering, and proactive capacity planning.
• Manage and administer enterprise backup and recovery solutions (Dell Avamar, Commvault, and cloud-native services), including policy design, job scheduling, monitoring, success rate reporting, and regular restore testing/validation.
• Manage and administer Brocade fiber channel switches, including experience with data migrations and SANNav software. Switch CLI experience is a plus.
• Design, implement, and manage cloud storage and backup solutions on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), optimizing for performance, security, compliance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize automation scripts, workflows, and infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) solutions using Bash, Python, Terraform, and complementary tools to provision storage, automate backups, orchestrate data protection, and reduce manual effort.
• Implement and manage immutable storage technologies, WORM (Write Once Read Many) configurations, and object‑lock policies to protect critical data against ransomware, accidental deletion, and to meet regulatory retention requirements.
• Perform fiber channel infrastructure administration including cabling standards and best practices, zoning, LUN masking, multipathing, and SAN fabric troubleshooting to maintain high‑performance, resilient storage connectivity.
• Lead or significantly contribute to the architectural design, solutioning, and long‑term roadmap development for storage, data protection, backup, and hybrid cloud infrastructure aligned with business objectives and emerging technologies.
• Provide strategic vision and actionable recommendations for the data management department.