Senior Storage Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery architectures for essential business applications and infrastructure.

• Engineer scalable, resilient, and secure backup solutions across physical, virtual, cloud, SaaS, and containerized environments.

• Develop standards for backup, recovery procedures, operational runbooks, and engineering documentation.

• Lead initiatives for backup platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization.

• Establish service levels for recovery, recovery objectives, and testing standards.

• Administer and engineer IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Defender Data Protect, Rubrik Security Cloud, Commvault, and cloud-native backup platforms.

• Conduct platform architecture, capacity planning, performance tuning, security hardening, lifecycle management, troubleshooting, and escalation support.

• Design and implement strategies for cyber recovery and ransomware resilience.

• Assess immutable storage, air-gapped recovery vaults, and cyber recovery technologies.

• Participate in cyber recovery exercises and validation testing.

• Provide technical leadership for initiatives related to backup, storage, and recovery architecture.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and propose platform enhancements.

• Engage in enterprise architecture reviews and infrastructure design discussions.

• Define standards, patterns, and best practices for enterprise data protection services.

• Develop automation for provisioning, reporting, monitoring, and operational workflows using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, Ansible, or similar tools.

• Create dashboards and reporting functionalities to enhance operational visibility and compliance.

• Lead onboarding processes for business units, applications, and infrastructure platforms that are integrating into enterprise backup services.

• Identify protection gaps, risk exposures, and compliance issues.

• Support governance and exception management processes.

• Collaborate with IBM, Rubrik, Dell, Microsoft, and other technology vendors.

• Manage vendor escalations and support engagements.

• Partner with infrastructure, security, cloud, application, and operations teams.

• Travel occasionally to Humana offices for training or meetings.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Over 7 years of experience in enterprise backup, storage, or data protection.

• At least 5 years of experience with one or more enterprise backup platforms.

• Proficiency with IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Defender Data Protect, Commvault, Rubrik, or Dell PPDM.

• Experience in designing and supporting large-scale enterprise backup environments.

• Strong understanding of enterprise storage technologies and infrastructure.

• Experience supporting VMware, Windows, Linux, and cloud platforms.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation.

• Demonstrated experience in project management.

• Ability to provide high-speed DSL or cable modem internet for a home office.

• Minimum internet speed of 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload.

• Satellite and wireless internet services are not permitted.

• A dedicated workspace free from ongoing interruptions to safeguard member PHI / HIPAA information.

• Preferred: experience in healthcare or highly regulated environments.

• Preferred: experience supporting Microsoft Azure and GCP workloads.

• Preferred: knowledge of cyber recovery and ransomware resilience strategies.

• Preferred: knowledge of Kubernetes and container protection technologies.

• Preferred: experience with Splunk, monitoring platforms, and operational analytics.

• Preferred: familiarity with ServiceNow and ITIL practices.

• Preferred: experience leading technical projects and mentoring junior engineers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus incentive plan.

• Medical benefits.

• Dental benefits.

• Vision benefits.

• 401(k) retirement savings plan.

• Paid time off.

• Company holidays.

• Personal holidays.

• Paid parental leave.

• Paid caregiver leave.

• Short-term disability.

• Long-term disability.

• Life insurance.

• High-speed DSL or cable modem for a home office.

• Internet expense reimbursement for associates or contractors residing and working from home in California.

• Dedicated home workspace to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.