Senior Infrastructure Engineer — Backup & Data Protection Lead

Trustees of University of Pennsylvania; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Pennsylvania is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to engineer, operate, and advance enterprise infrastructure services with a focus on backup, data protection, storage, and virtual server hosting. The role requires deep technical depth, independent problem solving, and collaboration across infrastructure, networking, cloud, cybersecurity, and application teams.

The senior engineer will design, implement, administer, and optimize backup and recovery platforms, contribute to

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise backup and data protection.
• Experience with Cohesity; familiarity with Veeam, Rubrik or similar tools.
• Strong collaboration across infrastructure, networking, cloud, cybersecurity and applications.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, operate, maintain, and advance enterprise backup, data protection, storage, and virtual server infrastructure services.
• Serve as a senior engineer for the University's enterprise backup and data protection service, providing depth for the service lead.
• Design, implement, administer, troubleshoot, optimize, and lifecycle-manage backup and recovery platforms with emphasis on Cohesity and comparable technologies.
• Develop and maintain backup policies, retention strategies, recovery procedures, and data protection standards.
• Support and improve disaster recovery, cyber-recovery, data resiliency, and recoverability capabilities, including testing.
• Monitor and optimize backup infrastructure for performance, capacity, reliability, availability, and recoverability.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex backup and infrastructure issues across storage, virtualization, networking, OS, and applications.
• Provide engineering support for virtual server hosting environments, including VMware and Nutanix.

Skills

Backup/Data protection

Automation

Troubleshooting

Mentorship

Tools

Cohesity

Veeam

Rubrik

NetApp

VMware

Nutanix

Job description

University of Pennsylvania is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to engineer, operate, and advance enterprise infrastructure services with a focus on backup, data protection, storage, and virtual server hosting. The role requires deep technical depth, independent problem solving, and collaboration across infrastructure, networking, cloud, cybersecurity, and application teams.

The senior engineer will design, implement, administer, and optimize backup and recovery platforms, contribute to