Resiliency Engineer

Who we are:

As a global leader in digital infrastructure, QTS designs, builds andoperatesadvanced data centers that support strategic AI,cloudand digital transformation initiatives.

We are driven by a mission to connect the world forgoodand our people make it possible. Every single day, the creativity,dedication and genuine care for our communities are what push us forward and make this atrulyspecial place to be.

As the Resiliency Engineer, you help design and evolve QTS’s Infrastructure Resiliency capability – working across the architecture for backup, disaster recovery orchestration, and cyber-resilient infrastructure. You help set the design standards, integration patterns, and technology roadmap that the broader engineering team implements and operates against.

What You Will Do:

• Own the end-to-end architecture for QTS’s resiliency platform portfolio across backup (Cohesity, Fort Knox, Azure, AWS), SaaS protection (Git Protect), identity DR (Semperis), and DR orchestration.
• Define and maintain design standards, reference architectures, and integration patterns for all recovery and resilience platforms.
• Own the Infrastructure Resiliency roadmap; refresh it on at least an annual cadence and as the threat, vendor, and infrastructure landscape shifts.
• Lead platform technology selection and vendor evaluation – proofs of concept, capability assessments, and architectural recommendations.
• Design the target-state recovery architecture and evolve it continuously as QTS’s infrastructure footprint, cloud estate, and site portfolio grow.
• Own capacity and growth planning across the resiliency platform portfolio – forecasting storage, compute, and licensing needs and feeding those projections into refresh, expansion, and budget planning.
• Establish integration and architecture-review standards for every new system entering resiliency scope, ensuring recovery is designed in – not bolted on.
• Partner with the broader engineering team, Infra Ops, enterprise architecture, and the CISO organization on recovery topology, dependency mapping, and cyber-resilient design.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need to Be Successful:

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related field (Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems) or equivalent practical experience.
• US Citizenship required.
• 5+ years in enterprise infrastructure, data protection, or disaster recovery, including hands-on platform design experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing or contributing to recovery, backup, or DR platform architecture – technology selection, design standards, and integration across multiple platforms.
• Strong command of backup and recovery architecture, DR orchestration, and cloud (Azure/AWS) recovery design.
• Ability to translate recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) and business risk into sound, implementable platform architecture.
• Strong technical documentation, roadmap ownership, and the ability to influence engineering and infrastructure teams without direct authority.

Other Key

Skills:

• Ability to define reference architectures and design standards across compute (VMware, Hyper-V, cloud), storage/SAN/NAS, replication, and data protection platforms.
• Familiarity with immutable, air-gapped, and clean-room recovery architecture patterns.
• Understanding of identity/DNS/network control planes (AD, Azure AD) and their impact on recovery topology.
• Vendor evaluation and technology-roadmap ownership in a fast-moving data center environment.
• Capacity and growth forecasting for storage, compute, and licensing.
• Regulatory and audit-driven architecture familiarity (CMMC, NIS2, DORA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP).
• Certifications such as TOGAF, CISSP, or platform architecture certifications (Cohesity, Azure/AWS) preferred.

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