Principal Data Protection & Remote Cloud Backup Engineer

Optum

Eden Prairie (MN)

On-site

USD 113,000 - 193,000

Full time

6 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package
401k contribution
Equity stock purchase

Job summary

Optum is seeking a senior data protection engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise backup, recovery, and cyber resilience across on-premises and cloud environments. You will lead large projects, provide architectural guidance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to secure data workloads.

You will work with AWS, Azure, and GCP, shaping DR strategies, capacity planning, and modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

  • 9+ years of enterprise backup, recovery, and data protection engineering.
  • Experience with large-scale enterprise environments and multi-cloud deployments.
  • Experience with cloud-native services and backup requirements for public clouds.
  • Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure, DB, VM, Kubernetes, and application protection.
  • Proven experience protecting workloads in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Capacity planning, storage optimization, growth forecasting, and infrastructure scaling.
  • Understanding of RPO/RTO and recovery objectives (RPO/RTO).
  • Ability to manage projects with minimal supervision.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to communicate complex concepts to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and support enterprise backup, recovery, retention, and cyber resilience solutions.
  • Lead medium to large-scale data protection projects from planning through implementation with minimal oversight.
  • Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across enterprise and cloud-based data protection services.
  • Develop backup and disaster recovery strategies for on-premises, virtualized, cloud-native, and hybrid workloads.
  • Design and support cloud data protection solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and make recommendations that improve recoverability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency.
  • Conduct capacity planning and growth forecasting activities, including backup storage requirements, retention planning, workload growth analysis, and performance optimization.
  • Understand workload behavior, placement considerations, and recovery requirements across physical, virtual, containerized, and cloud environments.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, application, database, and security teams to ensure that data protection requirements are incorporated into solution designs.
  • Troubleshoot complex backup, recovery, replication, and performance-related issues.
  • Develop and maintain engineering standards, operational procedures, architecture documents, and technical roadmaps.
  • Present technical solutions, recommendations, project status, and risk assessments to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
  • Support audit, compliance, governance, and cyber resiliency initiatives.

Skills

Backup engineering
Multi-cloud
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Disaster recovery
Communication
Capacity planning

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Optum is seeking a senior data protection engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise backup, recovery, and cyber resilience across on-premises and cloud environments. You will lead large projects, provide architectural guidance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to secure data workloads.

You will work with AWS, Azure, and GCP, shaping DR strategies, capacity planning, and modernization initiatives.

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