Staff Engineer - Infrastructure
The Hartford · India · 1d ago
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Job Title: Storage and Resiliency
Location: Hyderabad India (Hybrid)
Department: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Reports To: Infrastructure as a Service Team
Yrs. Of Experience: 6-9 yrs
Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated engineer to serve in our Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) organization supporting Storage and Resiliency. This role is ideal for a seasoned professional with deep expertise in enterprise storage, backup, replication, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and recoverability operations across a large scale environment. The ideal candidate will guide junior engineers and drive operational excellence across storage, backup, and resiliency services.
Key Responsibilities
Storage & Backup Administration
- Install, configure, and maintain enterprise storage, backup, replication, and recovery platforms across private and public cloud environments
- Manage lifecycle activities including provisioning, capacity management, upgrades, technology currency, and decommissioning
- Monitor storage and backup platform health, performance, availability, recoverability, and capacity through observability capabilities
- Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis for storage, backup, replication, and recovery incidents
- Implement platform security hardening, retention standards, access controls, and compliance requirements
- Manage storage provisioning, snapshot policies, backup schedules, replication policies, recovery tests, and service reporting
Resiliency & Cyber Recovery
- Lead disaster recovery, recoverability validation, backup restoration, replication testing, and operational readiness activities
- Partner with Cybersecurity and application teams to support cyber recovery capabilities and recoverability objectives
- Drive improvement plans for backup success, restore performance, data protection coverage, and resiliency gaps
24x7 Operations & Incident Management
- Support 24x7 storage and resiliency operations including capacity, backup operations, restore support, and vulnerability remediation
- Oversee incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and service restoration for storage, backup, and recovery services
Mentorship & Collaboration
- Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including compute, network, security, application, disaster recovery, and service management teams
Operational Excellence
- Ensure high availability, scalability, security, recoverability, and compliance of storage and resiliency environments
- Develop metrics for capacity, performance, backup success, restore performance, replication health, and recoverability compliance
Qualifications
- Strong enterprise storage and backup operations experience in large scale environments
- Experience with NetApp, SAN, NAS, object storage, backup platforms, replication, and disaster recovery technologies
- Knowledge of backup policies, retention standards, recovery testing, cyber recovery, and recoverability objectives
- Scripting and automation experience with PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or vendor automation tools
- Storage and backup capacity management, performance troubleshooting, vulnerability remediation, and technology currency experience
- Networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, SMB, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and firewall concepts
- Logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, vendor management tools, Prometheus, or equivalent
- Experience with virtualization and/or cloud platforms including VMware, Nutanix, AWS, or GCP