Presales Storage Backup Architect – Unstructured Data, Hybrid Cloud

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with clients and backup administrators to evaluate backup environments, pinpoint recovery gaps, and create scalable storage architectures.

• Determine backup storage targets by analyzing factors such as capacity, change rate, retention, growth, backup frequency, concurrency, replication, recovery objectives, data reduction, and headroom assumptions.

• Convert Commvault, Veeam, Cohesity, and similar configurations into storage, throughput, networking, resilience, and operational requirements.

• Assess deduplication and compression behavior, explaining the elements that influence data reduction and sizing.

• Facilitate customer workshops, assessments, proofs of concept, and performance validations.

• Provide expert insights on Dell EMC Data Domain and other enterprise backup solutions.

• Design and document enterprise backup and rapid recovery solutions centered around X10K.

• Conduct structured discovery using backup reports, capacity tools, job histories, retention schedules, and interviews with customers.

• Develop transparent sizing models that include assumptions, data reduction ranges, growth projections, capacity needs, risks, and sensitivities.

• Create designs for full, incremental, synthetic full, forever-incremental, GFS, auxiliary copy, replication, archive, and long-term retention strategies.

• Diagnose performance or capacity challenges across backup software, media/proxy layers, networks, storage targets, source workloads, and data reduction paths.

• Deliver recommendations and trade-offs to technical, procurement, security, and executive audiences.

• Support RFIs, RFPs, competitive takeouts, business cases, and solution justifications.

• Develop reusable sizing guidance, discovery checklists, reference architectures, competitive materials, and field enablement resources.

• Stay up to date with backup and recovery trends, ransomware-resilient architectures, immutable storage, cyber recovery, cloud integration, and backup software advancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of hands-on experience in designing, sizing, and positioning enterprise storage solutions.

• Significant customer-facing presales, consulting, or solution architecture experience.

• Proficient in sizing storage targets for backup and recovery.

• Ability to work with incomplete customer data, identify missing inputs, document assumptions, and assess sizing risks.

• In-depth practical knowledge of backup administration, backup windows, recovery workflows, RPO and RTO, retention, full and incremental strategies, copy policies, replication, immutability, and operational recovery testing.

• Strong understanding of deduplication and compression techniques.

• Experience with at least two of Commvault, Veeam, and Cohesity.

• Hands-on experience with Dell EMC Data Domain, including DD Boost concepts, capacity and performance sizing, data reduction expectations, and competitive positioning.

• Familiarity with enterprise object and file storage, including S3, NFS, and SMB.

• Proven experience in planning, executing, and documenting customer POCs and performance validations.

• Exceptional discovery, analytical, troubleshooting, communication, presentation, and executive-facing abilities.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Knowledge of Commvault, Veeam, Cohesity DataProtect or comparable scale-out backup platforms, along with Dell EMC Data Domain and DD Boost.

• Familiarity with HPE StoreOnce/Catalyst, ExaGrid, Pure Storage, NetApp, or other enterprise backup solutions is a significant advantage.

• Experience in protected environments such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Windows and Linux file systems, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle RMAN, SAP, NAS, and cloud-native workloads.

• Willingness to travel as required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

• Health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for personal and professional development.

• Career advancement opportunities.

• Flexible work arrangements to balance work and personal life.

• Options for remote or telecommuting work arrangements.