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Director of Storage and Backup Engineering
Job in
Milpitas, Santa Clara County, California, 95035, USA
Listed on 2026-10-05
Listing for:
CMK Resources, Inc.
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-05
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Disaster Recovery IT, Systems Engineer, IT Infrastructure, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
CMK Resources is hiring a Director of Storage and Backup Engineering for a large global data-storage and technology company undergoing significant infrastructure growth and modernization.
This is a senior technical leadership position responsible for the strategy, architecture, engineering, and operation of enterprise storage, backup, recovery, and data-protection environments.
The ideal candidate will combine leadership experience with deep technical knowledge of Dell enterprise storage and Rubrik.
Milpitas, California
Work Arrangement4 days a week onsite, 1 day remote
Responsibilities- Lead the strategy, architecture, engineering, and operation of enterprise storage, backup, and data-protection environments.
- Provide technical leadership for Dell SAN, NAS, block, and file-storage platforms.
- Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of Rubrik backup and recovery solutions.
- Develop strategies for capacity, performance, data retention, disaster recovery, ransomware resilience, and infrastructure modernization.
- Lead storage and backup engineering teams and establish architecture standards, operating procedures, and technical roadmaps.
- Drive migrations and modernization efforts involving legacy storage and backup platforms.
- Design solutions supporting high availability, immutable backups, disaster recovery, and rapid restoration.
- Establish metrics covering storage capacity, availability, backup success, recovery performance, and operational health.
- Lead root-cause analysis for complex storage and backup incidents.
- Manage strategic vendor relationships, technology investments, licensing, and capacity planning.
- Communicate technical strategy, risks, roadmaps, and investment recommendations to senior leadership.
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, storage, backup, or data-protection engineering.
- 5+ years in infrastructure leadership, management, architecture, or engineering leadership.
- Strong enterprise experience with Dell storage technologies.
- Hands-on and architectural experience with Rubrik.
- Deep knowledge of enterprise backup and recovery architecture.
- Experience designing disaster-recovery and business-continuity solutions.
- Strong knowledge of SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, replication, capacity planning, and storage performance.
- Experience leading technical teams and large-scale infrastructure initiatives.
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Dell Power Store, Power Max, Power Scale/Isilon, or Unity experience.
- Rubrik Security Cloud experience.
- VMware and enterprise virtualization experience.
- AWS, Azure, or GCP storage and backup experience.
Ransomware recovery and cyber-resiliency program experience. - Infrastructure automation or infrastructure-as-code experience.
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