Senior Manager - Datacenter Operations - Storage, Backup and Recovery Platforms

At Genworth, we empower families to navigate the aging journey with confidence. We are compassionate, experienced allies for those navigating care with guidance, products, and services that meet families where they are. Further, we are the spouses, children, siblings, friends, and neighbors of those that need care-and we bring those experiences with us to work in serving our millions of policyholders each day.

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POSITION TITLE

Senior Manager
- Datacenter Operations
- Storage, Backup and Recovery Platforms

This role is not available for Sponsorship.

POSITION LOCATION

Lynchburg, Richmond, Remote

This position is available to Virginia residents as Richmond or Lynchburg, VA hybrid in-office applicants or remote applicants residing in states/locations under Eastern or Central Standard Time:
Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia or Wisconsin.

Hybrid in-office would be required if you reside within 50 miles of our Richmond or Lynchburg, VA office. Required in-office days are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

YOUR ROLE

D rive the end-to-end management of enterprise storage platforms, data protection solutions, and recovery capabilities across multi-site datacenter environments while Genworth continues to advance a rapidly developing modernization strategy. This leader ensures data durability, availability, and recoverability while advancing next generation protection strategies with a strong understanding of data lifecycle management, financial stewardship, and team leadership. The role balances strategic planning with hands on oversight of storage, backup, and recovery operations, aligning data services with business and regulatory needs.

What you will be doing

Datacenter Operations:

• Oversee multi-site storage and data protection environments to ensure optimal performance, capacity, and availability of enterprise storage platforms and backup services.
• Manage the portfolio of storage technologies and backup solutions to meet scalability, resiliency, and retention objectives aligned with enterprise strategy such as Net App, EMC Isilion, Commvault.

Service Delivery and Reliability:

• Develop and enforce operational procedures and best practices for storage systems, backup platforms, and recovery processes through a combination of system administrators and support staff.
• Monitor system health, data integrity, and backup success rates. Implement capacity and retention planning to ensure long term data availability and compliance.
• Ensure disaster recovery capabilities, backup processes, and business continuity plans are defined, maintained, and regularly tested across all supported environments.
• Develop reporting for consumption on a regular basis.
• Enforce strong data protection controls and compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements across storage and backup environments.
• Proactively manage risk through encryption, immutability, access controls, and vulnerability remediation.
• Align data protection practices with enterprise governance, audit standards, and regulatory frameworks (SOC,ISO,NIST).
• Lead vendor selection, contracts, and relationships for storage infrastructure, backup platforms, and associated managed services.
• Partner with site and infrastructure leadership during vendor negotiations and ensure partners meet defined service levels, performance expectations, and cost targets.
• Provide oversight of third-party services and contractors supporting storage and data protection capabilities.
• Manage budgets for storage and data protection services, including capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and financial reporting.
• Drive financial transparency through…