Senior Cloud Storage Engineer - Backup & Recovery Management

Elevance Health - Indianapolis, IN

Full-time - Senior

Indianapolis, IN

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About the position

The Senior Cloud Storage Engineer plays a critical role in the analysis and research of systems and networks, focusing on the design and implementation of cloud storage solutions, particularly in backup and recovery management. This position is essential for ensuring the integrity and availability of data across multiple cloud environments. The ideal candidate will be responsible for advanced engineering design functions, which include building infrastructure for compute, storage, network, backups, disaster recovery (DR), and monitoring. The role requires a proactive approach to creating presentations and seeking IT management approval for significant replacements or reconfigurations of major business systems that serve the enterprise. In this position, the Senior Cloud Storage Engineer will lead the implementation and management of Rubrik data backup and recovery solutions for enterprise clients. This includes conducting regular system backups, performing disaster recovery drills, and maintaining comprehensive documentation for Rubrik environments. The engineer will troubleshoot and resolve Rubrik-related issues, deploy and configure Rubrik Clusters and Polaris UI, and design and implement Rubrik Cloud Data Management solutions tailored for enterprise environments. The role also involves performing granular recoveries for individual files, applications, and images, utilizing Cloud Archive for long-term data retention and disaster recovery. The engineer will develop complex solutions based on business requirements and architectural specifications, contributing to the creation of reusable artifacts such as CloudFormation templates. They will direct the construction of architecture components, participate in enterprise architecture design, and ensure compliance with security, cost, performance, and durability best practices. The Senior Cloud Storage Engineer will also advocate for and implement cloud security policies in collaboration with InfoSec teams, perform configuration management duties, and scale production systems and technologies. Additionally, they will be responsible for monitoring the availability, latency, performance, and efficiency of the cloud environment, participating in postmortem activities for significant cloud-related incidents to identify root causes and improve future responses.

Responsibilities

• Provides advanced-level engineering design functions and builds multiple cloud environment infrastructure (Compute, Storage, Network, Backups, DR, and Monitoring).
• Creates presentations and seeks IT management approval for significant replacements or reconfigurations of major business systems.
• Leads the implementation and management of Rubrik data backup and recovery solutions for enterprise clients, ensuring data integrity and availability.
• Conducts regular system backups and disaster recovery drills, maintaining documentation for Rubrik environments.
• Troubleshoots and resolves Rubrik-related issues.
• Deploys and configures Rubrik Cluster and Polaris UI.
• Designs and implements Rubrik Cloud Data Management solutions for enterprise environments.
• Performs granular recoveries for individual files, applications, and images.
• Utilizes Cloud Archive for long-term data retention and disaster recovery.
• Develops complex solutions from business requirements and architectural specifications.
• Creates reusable artifacts like CloudFormation templates.
• Directs the construction of architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture).
• Participates in the design of the enterprise architecture, ensuring compliance with security, cost, performance, and durability best practices.
• Proposes opportunities to improve results based on targeted or continuous assessment.
• Participates in enterprise planning activities, including vendor assessment and technology platform selection.
• Acts as a subject matter expert for executive management and collaborates with cross-functional teams.
• Advocates and implements cloud security policies and best practices with InfoSec teams.
• Performs configuration management duties using AWSConfig.
• Scales production systems and technologies, including load balancing and monitoring.
• Responsible for the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, and monitoring of the cloud environment.
• Participates in postmortem activities for significant cloud-related incidents.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years in information systems, computer networking, telecommunications, systems development, and management.
• Significant experience with multiple technical and business disciplines.
• Broad-based experience to plan and design highly complex systems.

Nice-to-haves

• 8+ years of experience in system administration, application development, and infrastructure development in a cloud infrastructure.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS cloud infrastructure monitoring systems (CloudWatch, CloudWatch Synthetics, AWS X-Ray, Splunk, etc.).
• 8+ years executing the use of XML, Shell, Perl, YAML, Ruby, Batch, and Python.
• Lambda and CloudFormation coding experience.
• 6+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure automation technologies (like Terraform, CodeDeploy, Puppet, Ansible, Chef).
• Production experience in large environments using configuration management tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Familiarity with AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, or equivalent Azure/GCP Databases.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking fundamentals (e.g., VPC, TransitGateway, Routes, etc.).
• 2+ years of cloud database operations and deployment experience (RDS, MySQL/Postgres/Aurora).
• Cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) certification(s) preferred.
• Rubrik Certified Administrator (RCA) preferred.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• 401k retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling options
• Professional development opportunities
• Tuition reimbursement for further education
• Employee discount programs