Lead Backup & Recovery Engineer; Remote

Position: Lead Backup & Recovery Engineer (Remote)
Job Posting:

Since 1953, Ferguson has been a source of quality supplies for a variety of industries. Together We Build Better infrastructure, better homes and better businesses. We exist to make our customers’ complex projects simple, successful, and sustainable. We proactively solve problems, adapt and grow to continuously serve our customers, communities and each other. Ferguson, a Fortune 500 company, is proud to provide best-in-class products, service and capabilities across the following industries:
Commercial/Mechanical, Facilities Supply, Fire and Fabrication, HVAC, Industrial, Residential Trade, Residential Building and Remodel, Waterworks and Residential Digital Commerce. Ferguson has approximately 36,000 associates across 1,700 locations. Ferguson is a community of proud associates who operate with the shared purpose of building something meaningful. You will build a career that you are proud of, at a company you can believe in.

Lead Backup & Recovery Engineer As a Lead Backup & Recovery Engineer, you will coordinate activities related to the enterprise data protection architecture for on-premises and cloud environments. You will set the technical direction for how the organization protects and recovers its data. You'll define backup policies, recovery objectives, and data lifecycle strategy in agreement with the business, establish the governance framework and standards the estate is held to, and own recoverability assurance.

You'll own platform strategy and vendor selection end to end, and lead backup platform migrations including sequencing, risk position, and cutover authority.

This is a technical leadership role rather than a day-to-day break-fix role; routine monitoring and first-line remediation sit with the operations team, while you own the architecture, standards, automation strategy, and final technical escalation above it. You'll present findings, risk positions, and program status to senior leadership, IT steering committees, and audit and risk functions, and defend architecture decisions under scrutiny.

You'll set the capability development plan for engineers and operators and review the designs the team produces, while remaining hands-on enough to prototype new capability and lead the highest-risk implementation work personally.

Location:

This role is approved to be fully remote and can be based anywhere in the United States.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Own the enterprise data protection strategy and architecture across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

Define and maintain backup, retention, recovery, and data lifecycle standards, including RPO/RTO objectives aligned to business requirements.

Design and implement resilient, ransomware-resistant backup and recovery solutions using immutable, air-gapped, and isolated recovery capabilities.

Establish standard protection patterns for virtual, physical, database, containerized, SaaS, and cloud-native workloads.

Lead evaluation, selection, implementation, migration, and lifecycle management of enterprise backup and recovery platforms.

Develop disaster recovery architectures, replication strategies, failover/failback processes, and recovery testing programs that support business continuity objectives.

Serve as the technical authority during disaster recovery exercises, audits, major incidents, and recovery events.

Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Storage, Database, and Application teams to ensure data protection requirements are incorporated into solution designs.

Define governance, compliance, and security controls supporting regulatory requirements such as SOX, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and internal security standards.

Own resource planning, performance management, growth forecasting, licensing strategy, and cost optimization for backup and recovery environments.

Establish reporting, dashboards, indicators, and service level metrics to communicate protection coverage, recovery readiness, risk exposure, and operational performance.

Drive automation initiatives to improve scalability, consistency, and operational efficiency across the backup estate.

Lead vendor relationships, product roadmap discussions, proof-of-concept evaluations, and technology recommendations.

Provide technical leadership, mentoring, design reviews, and escalation support for backup and recovery engineering teams.

Maintain hands-on technical involvement in architecture validation, complex problem solving, platform upgrades, and critical implementations.

Qualifications and…