Staff Engineer - Infrastructure

The Hartford India; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 4,200,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hartford India in Hyderabad is seeking a seasoned Storage and Resiliency engineer to lead enterprise storage, backup, and disaster recovery operations within a hybrid cloud setup.

The role emphasizes 6-9 years of experience, deep expertise in storage, backup, replication, and cyber recovery, and collaboration across IT teams to ensure resiliency and 24x7 operational readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale enterprise storage and backup operations.
• Knowledge of NetApp, SAN/NAS, object storage, backup, replication, and DR tech.
• Understanding of backup policies, retention, cyber recovery, and recoverability objectives.
• Scripting/automation in PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or vendor tools.
• Storage and backup capacity management, performance troubleshooting, vulnerability remediation.
• Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, SMB, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, firewalls.
• Logging/monitoring with Splunk, Prometheus, or equivalents.
• Experience with virtualization/cloud: VMware, Nutanix, AWS, GCP.

Responsibilities

• Storage & Backup Administration: Install, configure, maintain storage/backup platforms across private/public clouds.
• Lifecycle management: provisioning, capacity, upgrades, currency, decommissioning.
• Monitor storage and backup health, performance, availability, recoverability, capacity via observability tools.
• Troubleshoot storage, backup, replication, recovery incidents; root-cause analysis.
• Implement security hardening, retention standards, access controls, compliance.
• Manage provisioning, snapshot policies, backup schedules, replication policies, recovery tests, reporting.

Skills

Enterprise storage operations

Backup operations

Disaster recovery & cyber recovery

Scripting & automation

Networking basics

Tools

NetApp

SAN

NAS

Object storage

Backup platforms

Replication technologies

Disaster recovery technologies

PowerShell

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Splunk

Prometheus

VMware

Nutanix

AWS

GCP

Job description

IND Senior Engineer, Infrastructure - GCC034

We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.

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