Lead Storage & Data Protection Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical roadmap for storage services, backup/recovery capabilities, and disaster recovery processes across the VCF platform.
• Establish enterprise standards for vSAN storage policies, service tiers, workload placement, capacity governance, and performance baselines.
• Lead strategy for VCF-native data protection adoption, recovery service design, and transition from legacy backup platforms.
• Define backup and recovery operating models across VCF, traditional storage platforms, and public cloud services.
• Own disaster recovery process design, testing cadence, recovery success criteria, and continuous improvement plans.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex storage, backup, recovery, and cross-platform resiliency issues.
• Lead architecture-aligned decisions involving adjacent VCF platform tools and dependencies that affect recoverability, including management, networking, observability, and cloud extension capabilities.
• Partner with infrastructure leadership, architects, cloud teams, security teams, and service management to align storage and recovery strategy with business resiliency goals.
• Review and approve high-risk technical changes impacting storage availability, backup integrity, or recovery readiness.
• Mentor senior engineers, shape technical development across the job family, and build durable engineering capability.

This on-site role supports 24/7 operations through real-time collaboration. Standard shifts occur within a 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM window, Monday through Friday. The position requires scheduled on-call flexibility and the ability to remain reasonably reachable during off-hours for critical business continuity.

• Advanced VMware certifications relevant to vSAN, VCF, or data protection.
• Deep experience with VMware Live Recovery and enterprise DR design.
• Strong experience with Commvault, Veeam, or other enterprise backup transformation programs.
• Broad knowledge of VCF platform tools and services beyond storage, including SDDC Manager, NSX, VCF Operations, logging/observability services, HCX, DSM, Kubernetes‑adjacent platform services, and hybrid cloud integration points.
• Experience with cloud‑based backup, archive, and cross‑environment recovery strategies.
• Strong automation and scripting experience supporting storage lifecycle, backup governance, and recovery validation.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in enterprise storage, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, virtualization, or infrastructure engineering.
• Expert‑level experience with VMware vSAN, storage architecture, capacity planning, and performance engineering.
• Expert‑level experience with backup and recovery strategies, DR planning, restore validation, and resilience program execution.
• Proven experience leading storage or data protection standards in large‑scale enterprise environments.
• Strong experience driving technical direction across multiple infrastructure domains.
• Demonstrated ability to lead major incidents, recovery events, and strategic transformation initiatives.