Senior Backup & Data Protection Engineer

Humana; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana seeks a Senior Storage Engineer (L3) specializing in backup, recovery, and data protection engineering. You will design and operate enterprise backup architectures across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, leading platform upgrades, governance, and automation efforts.

Collaboration with security, cloud, and operations teams is essential. The role requires deep expertise in storage and data protection technologies, and experience with IBM, Rubrik, and Commvault platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of enterprise backup, storage, or data protection experience.
• 5+ years of experience with one or more enterprise backup platforms: IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Defender Data Protect, Commvault, Rubrik, Dell PPDM.
• Experience designing and supporting large-scale enterprise backup environments.
• Experience supporting VMware, Windows, Linux, and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery architectures.
• Engineer scalable, resilient, and secure backup solutions across physical, virtual, cloud, SaaS, and containerized environments.
• Develop and maintain backup standards, recovery procedures, operational runbooks, and engineering documentation.
• Lead backup platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
• Establish and maintain recovery service levels, recovery objectives, and testing standards.
• Administer and engineer Enterprise Data Protection Platforms including IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Defender Data Protect, Rubrik, Commvault.
• Develop automation solutions using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, Ansible, or similar tools.

Skills

Enterprise backup

Storage technologies

VMware

Windows

Linux

Scripting & automation

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

IBM Storage Protect

IBM Storage Defender Data Protect

Commvault

Rubrik

Dell PPDM

Job description

Humana seeks a Senior Storage Engineer (L3) specializing in backup, recovery, and data protection engineering. You will design and operate enterprise backup architectures across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, leading platform upgrades, governance, and automation efforts.

Collaboration with security, cloud, and operations teams is essential. The role requires deep expertise in storage and data protection technologies, and experience with IBM, Rubrik, and Commvault platforms.