Resiliency Engineer

qtsdatacenters; Suwanee (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

QTS Data Centers is seeking a Resiliency Engineer to design and evolve our infrastructure resiliency capability across backup, DR orchestration, and cyber-resilient architecture.

You will define standards, lead technology selections, and own the roadmap to ensure recovery is built in from the start. This role requires hands-on architectural expertise across multiple platforms and clouds.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years in enterprise infrastructure, data protection, or disaster recovery.
• Experience designing or contributing to backup, DR platform architecture.
• Strong command of backup/recovery architectures and cloud recovery design.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture for resiliency platform portfolio across backup, DR orchestration, and cyber-resilient infrastructure.
• Define and maintain design standards, reference architectures, and integration patterns.
• Own the Infrastructure Resiliency roadmap and refresh it annually.
• Lead platform technology selection, proofs of concept, and vendor assessments.
• Design target-state recovery architecture and evolve with growth in footprint and cloud estate.
• Own capacity planning for storage, compute, and licensing needs.
• Establish integration and architecture-review standards for new systems entering resiliency scope.
• Collaborate with InfraOps, enterprise architecture, and CISO on recovery topology and cyber-resilient design.

Skills

DR architecture

Cloud design

Vendor evaluations

Roadmap ownership

Technical documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT-related field

Tools

Cohesity

FortKnox

GitProtect

Semperis

VMware

Hyper-V

Azure

AWS

Job description

Who we are:

As a global leader in digital infrastructure, QTS designs, builds and operates advanced data centers that support strategic AI, cloud and digital transformation initiatives. We are driven by a mission to connect the world for good and our people make it possible. Every single day, the creativity, dedication and genuine care for our communities are what push us forward and make this a truly special place to be.

As the Resiliency Engineer, you help design and evolve QTS's Infrastructure Resiliency capability - working across the architecture for backup, disaster recovery orchestration, and cyber-resilient infrastructure. You help set the design standards, integration patterns, and technology roadmap that the broader engineering team implements and operates against.

What You Will Do:

• Own the end-to-end architecture for QTS's resiliency platform portfolio across backup (Cohesity, FortKnox, Azure, AWS), SaaS protection (GitProtect), identity DR (Semperis), and DR orchestration.
• Define and maintain design standards, reference architectures, and integration patterns for all recovery and resilience platforms.
• Own the Infrastructure Resiliency roadmap; refresh it on at least an annual cadence and as the threat, vendor, and infrastructure landscape shifts.
• Lead platform technology selection and vendor evaluation - proofs of concept, capability assessments, and architectural recommendations.
• Design the target-state recovery architecture and evolve it continuously as QTS's infrastructure footprint, cloud estate, and site portfolio grow.
• Own capacity and growth planning across the resiliency platform portfolio - forecasting storage, compute, and licensing needs and feeding those projections into refresh, expansion, and budget planning.
• Establish integration and architecture-review standards for every new system entering resiliency scope, ensuring recovery is designed in - not bolted on.
• Partner with the broader engineering team, InfraOps, enterprise architecture, and the CISO organization on recovery topology, dependency mapping, and cyber-resilient design.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need to Be Successful:

• Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field (Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems) or equivalent practical experience.
• US Citizenship required.
• 5+ years in enterprise infrastructure, data protection, or disaster recovery, including hands-on platform design experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing or contributing to recovery, backup, or DR platform architecture - technology selection, design standards, and integration across multiple platforms.
• Strong command of backup and recovery architecture, DR orchestration, and cloud (Azure/AWS) recovery design.
• Ability to translate recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) and business risk into sound, implementable platform architecture.
• Strong technical documentation, roadmap ownership, and the ability to influence engineering and infrastructure teams without direct authority.

Other Key Skills:

• Ability to define reference architectures and design standards across compute (VMware, Hyper-V, cloud), storage/SAN/NAS, replication, and data protection platforms.
• Familiarity with immutable, air-gapped, and clean-room recovery architecture patterns.
• Understanding of identity/DNS/network control planes (AD, Azure AD) and their impact on recovery topology.
• Vendor evaluation and technology-roadmap ownership in a fast-moving data center environment.
• Capacity and growth forecasting for storage, compute, and licensing.
• Regulatory and audit-driven architecture familiarity (CMMC, NIS2, DORA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP).
• Certifications such as TOGAF, CISSP, or platform architecture certifications (Cohesity, Azure/AWS) preferred.

We conform to all the laws, statutes, and regulations concerning equal employment opportunities and affirmative action. We strongly encourage women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply to all of our job openings. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, age, disability status, Genetic Information & Testing, Family & Medical Leave, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We prohibit retaliation against individuals who bring forth any complaint, orally or in writing, to the employer or the government, or against any individuals who assist or participate in the investigation of any complaint or discrimination claim.

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