Storage Administrator V

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology

Job Requisition: 479883

Address: USA-MA-Quincy-1385 Hancock Street

Store Code:
Infrastructure - Hosting (5118680)

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Primary Purpose

The Storage Administrator V is a highly experienced engineer with a proven track record of delivering technical leadership in the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise backup and storage hosting services. They operate in a fast‑paced environment, applying advanced expertise across Rubrik, IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) , Commvault, and large‑scale storage platforms to deliver resilient, well‑engineered data protection solutions. This includes translating business and technical requirements into robust architectures supporting multi‑datacenter, hybrid backup infrastructures.

The Storage Administrator V serves as a senior technical contributor, leader, and mentor to junior engineers, significantly influencing project outcomes and platform maturity.

Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations are Salisbury, NC;
Quincy, MA.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Duties And Responsibilities

* Provide subject matter expertise in the architecture, engineering, and optimization of enterprise backup and storage hosting solutions across multi‑datacenter environments.

* Recommend and design components that integrate seamlessly across backup and storage domains, ensuring alignment with the enterprise architectural roadmap.

* Lead deployment of backup and recovery solutions (Rubrik, TSM, Commvault) supporting large‑scale hybrid environments and multi‑petabyte storage footprints.

* Ensure backup, recovery, and storage infrastructure solutions are delivered on time, cost‑effectively, and aligned with total cost‑of‑ownership best practices.

* Develop and maintain detailed technical documentation, runbooks, and architectural diagrams to ensure operational clarity and compliance.

* Create and execute communication plans to keep business partners, application teams, and leadership informed of upcoming changes, risks, or impacts.

* Develop robust test plans, failover procedures, data‑validation scripts, and DR execution playbooks; ensure defects are tracked, resolved, and documented.

* Serve as a key liaison to communicate infrastructure changes, platform upgrades, DR events, and system maintenance to stakeholders and dependent teams.

* Ensure backup and storage operations account for business‑critical processing windows, freeze periods, major releases, and DR testing cycles.

* Conduct reviews of current backup/storage processes to identify capability gaps, modernization opportunities, and efficiencies.

* Recommend innovations and simplifications in backup architecture, storage lifecycle management, automation, and disaster recovery design.

* Build strong partnerships with application owners, infrastructure leaders, and engineering teams to ensure data protection solutions meet evolving business needs.

* Provide Tier‑3 and escalation support for backup failures, storage issues, performance bottlenecks, and complex recovery scenarios.

* Identify and lead initiatives aimed at reducing technical debt, improving platform reliability, and enhancing operational maturity.

* Develop solutions to highly complex backup, replication, and storage challenges affecting multiple environments and business units.

* Serve as a technical leader, mentoring junior engineers and influencing technical direction in backup, storage, and DR engineering practices.

* Drive and participate in cross‑functional design sessions, leading teams to strong technical conclusions while modeling accountability and continuous improvement.

* Ensure 24/7…