Lead Storage & Data Protection Engineer

HDR
Kansas City, CA
Job Description
At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day.

Requirements

  • Define and own the technical roadmap for storage services, backup/recovery capabilities, and disaster recovery processes across the VCF platform.
  • Establish enterprise standards for vSAN storage policies, service tiers, workload placement, capacity governance, and performance baselines.
  • Lead strategy for VCF-native data protection adoption, recovery service design, and transition from legacy backup platforms.
  • Define backup and recovery operating models across VCF, traditional storage platforms, and public cloud services.
  • Own disaster recovery process design, testing cadence, recovery success criteria, and continuous improvement plans.
  • Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex storage, backup, recovery, and cross-platform resiliency issues.
  • Lead architecture-aligned decisions involving adjacent VCF platform tools and dependencies that affect recoverability, including management, networking, observability, and cloud extension capabilities.
  • Partner with infrastructure leadership, architects, cloud teams, security teams, and service management to align storage and recovery strategy with business resiliency goals.
  • Review and approve high-risk technical changes impacting storage availability, backup integrity, or recovery readiness.
  • Mentor senior engineers, shape technical development across the job family, and build durable engineering capability.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Short and long-term disability
  • Life insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Paid time away
  • Parental leave
  • Paid holidays
  • Retirement savings plan with employer match
  • Employee referral bonus
  • Tuition reimbursement
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