Resiliency Engineer

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As the Resiliency Engineer you help design and evolve QTSs 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 QTSs resiliency platform portfolio across backup (Cohesity FortKnox Azure AWS) SaaS protection (GitProtect) 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 QTSs 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 InfraOps 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:

• Bachelors 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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