Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer

Columbia Sportswear; Portland (OR); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Columbia Sportswear Company in Portland, OR is seeking a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer to serve as a hands-on technical expert responsible for enterprise storage platforms, global file services, backup and recovery capabilities. This role partners with infrastructure teams to ensure data platforms remain secure, resilient, scalable, and recoverable.

The role emphasizes storage reliability, modernization initiatives, and operational excellence across a global enterprise, with a hybrid

Qualifications

• 5+ years of enterprise storage experience.
• Hands-on administration of backup/recovery platforms.
• Experience with major storage platforms and datacenter environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise storage platforms and related technologies.
• Lead backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery efforts globally.
• Collaborate with VMware/Windows/Linux/hybrid cloud teams to deliver reliable services.
• Develop runbooks, monitoring standards, and recovery procedures.
• Participate in incident response and continuous improvement.

Skills

Enterprise storage

Data protection

Troubleshooting

Documentation

PowerShell

Automation tools

VMware

Windows Server

Linux

Collaboration

Tools

Commvault

Pure Storage

Qumulo

Dell PowerStore

NetApp

Dell EMC

Job description

This position is designated as a hybrid role based out of our headquarters near Portland, Oregon. The current expectation is for employees to work onsite four days per week, subject to change based on business needs. This in-office requirement may be adjusted at the discretion of the company.

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.

At Columbia, we're as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we're proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: "It's perfect. Now make it better." As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.

And we believe in you.

ABOUT THE POSITION

We are seeking a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer to serve as a hands‑on technical expert responsible for enterprise storage platforms, global file services, backup and recovery, replication, and disaster recovery capabilities. This individual will partner closely with infrastructure engineering teams supporting compute, virtualization, networking, and cloud environments while ensuring Columbia's most critical data platforms remain secure, resilient, scalable, and recoverable.

This role is ideal for a storage‑focused infrastructure engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, improving platform reliability, supporting modernization initiatives, and helping drive operational excellence across a global enterprise.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Administer and support enterprise storage platforms including Pure Storage, Qumulo, Dell PowerStore, and related storage technologies.
• Design, configure, and manage storage provisioning, performance optimization, capacity planning, replication, and lifecycle management activities.
• Serve as a technical lead for backup, recovery, retention, and disaster recovery capabilities across global infrastructure environments.
• Administer and optimize Commvault data protection solutions, ensuring recoverability objectives and compliance requirements are consistently met.
• Support global file sharing, file services, replication, and data resiliency solutions for associates and business applications worldwide.
• Partner with infrastructure engineering teams supporting VMware, Windows Server, Linux, and hybrid cloud platforms to deliver reliable compute and storage services.
• Lead storage migrations, platform upgrades, modernization initiatives, and technology refresh projects.
• Develop operational runbooks, technical documentation, monitoring standards, and recovery procedures that improve platform reliability and operational maturity.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, service restoration activities, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Collaborate with global engineering teams to standardize storage architectures, operational practices, governance controls, and support models.

YOU ARE

• A hands‑on infrastructure engineer with deep expertise in enterprise storage and data protection technologies.
• Someone who enjoys troubleshooting complex storage, backup, and replication challenges in production environments.
• A technical leader who can influence decisions through expertise, documentation, and collaboration.
• A proactive engineer who focuses on reliability, resiliency, recoverability, and operational excellence.
• A trusted partner who works effectively with infrastructure, security, networking, cloud, and application teams.

YOU HAVE

• 5+ years of enterprise experience supporting storage infrastructure, backup platforms, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Hands‑on administration experience with Commvault and enterprise backup/recovery technologies.
• Extensive experience with one or more enterprise storage platforms including Pure Storage, Qumulo, Dell PowerStore, NetApp, Dell EMC, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting VMware, Windows Server, Linux, and enterprise datacenter environments.
• Experience with storage replication, business continuity, disaster recovery testing, backup architecture, and global file services.
• Familiarity with PowerShell, automation tools, infrastructure monitoring, and operational support best practices.
• Experience working in large‑scale enterprise environments supporting highly available production systems.
• Strong documentation, troubleshooting, communication, and problem‑solving skills.

Columbia Sportswear Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we're proud to offer regular full‑time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well‑being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well‑being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family's financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available. If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to [e-mail] with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.