Staff Engineer - Infrastructure

The Hartford; Rangareddy; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hartford in Hyderabad (Hybrid) is seeking a Senior Engineer, Infrastructure to join the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) team. You will own storage, backup, and resiliency operations across on-prem and cloud environments, guiding junior engineers and ensuring high availability and recoverability.

The ideal candidate has 6-9 years of experience in enterprise storage, backup, disaster recovery, and cyber recovery, with strong scripting and automation skills and hands-on experience with

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Enterprise storage

Backup operations

Disaster recovery

Cyber recovery

Storage replication

Scripting: PowerShell, Python

Automation tools: Ansible, Terraform

Networking fundamentals

Logging/Monitoring: Splunk, Prometheus

Virtualization/Cloud: VMware, AWS, GCP

Tools

NetApp

SAN

NAS

Object storage

Backup platforms

Replication technologies

VMware

Nutanix

AWS

GCP

Splunk

Prometheus

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

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