Storage & Data Protection Engineer 1
About the role
Support day-to-day administration of vSAN storage policies, storage provisioning activities, and assigned storage service requests.
Monitor storage capacity, utilization, and health across VCF environments; escalate threshold or performance concerns.
Afford assistance with routine operation of VCF-native data protection capabilities, including snapshots, replication, and recovery tasks.
Perform basic backup job monitoring, restore validation support, and operational checks across storage and data protection platforms.
Execute standard recovery procedures and participate in disaster recovery preparation activities under guidance.
Assist with storage performance analysis and remediation for standard workload issues.
Maintain documentation for storage procedures, backup schedules, restore workflows, and operational runbooks.
Follow approved change, security, and compliance processes for all storage and recovery activities.
Participate in incident support and after-action documentation for storage or backup-related events.
Develop working knowledge of adjacent VCF components that interact with storage services.
Responsibilities
- Support day-to-day administration of vSAN storage policies, storage provisioning activities, and assigned storage service requests.
- Monitor storage capacity, utilization, and health across VCF environments; escalate threshold or performance concerns.
- Afford assistance with routine operation of VCF-native data protection capabilities, including snapshots, replication, and recovery tasks.
- Perform basic backup job monitoring, restore validation support, and operational checks across storage and data protection platforms.
- Execute standard recovery procedures and participate in disaster recovery preparation activities under guidance.
- Assist with storage performance analysis and remediation for standard workload issues.
- Maintain documentation for storage procedures, backup schedules, restore workflows, and operational runbooks.
- Follow approved change, security, and compliance processes for all storage and recovery activities.
- Participate in incident support and after-action documentation for storage or backup-related events.
- Develop working knowledge of adjacent VCF components that interact with storage services.
Requirements
- Minimum 1 year of experience in infrastructure, systems, storage, backup, or virtualization administration/support.
- Foundational knowledge of enterprise storage concepts such as RAID, SAN, NAS, storage tiers, capacity, and resiliency.
- Foundational experience with VMware vSphere and basic familiarity with VMware vSAN.
- Basic understanding of backup, restore, replication, and disaster recovery concepts.
- Experience working with operational documentation, ticketing, and standard change procedures.
- Ability to learn and support technical systems in a structured enterprise environment.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
- Exposure to VMware Cloud Foundation environments.
- Exposure to backup tools such as Commvault or Veeam.
- Familiarity with snapshot-based protection and replication concepts.
- Basic knowledge of public cloud storage concepts.
- Entry-level VMware or storage-related certification.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement.
Pay
The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location.
Schedule
This on-site role supports 24/7 operations through real-time collaboration, standard shifts occur within a 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM window, Monday through Friday. Additionally, this position requires scheduled on-call flexibility and the ability to remain reasonably reachable during off-hours for critical business continuity.
Schedule & Presence
Schedule & Presence: Full-time Employee Status: Regular
Other Locations
- United States-Nebraska-Omaha
- United States-Minnesota-St. Paul
- United States-Texas-Austin
- United States-Missouri-Kansas City
- United States-South Carolina-Columbia
- United States-Colorado-Denver
- United States-Virginia-Vienna
- United States-Minnesota-Saint Louis Park
- United States-California-Folsom
- United States-Oregon-Portland
- United States-New Jersey-Pennington
- United States-New Jersey-Woodcliff Lake
- United States-Florida-Orlando
- United States-Pennsylvania-Harrisburg
- United States-Oregon-Salem
- United States-Texas-Fort Worth
- United States-Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh
- United States-Texas-San Antonio
- United States-Texas-Dallas
- United States-New Mexico-Albuquerque
- United States-Washington-Olympia
- United States-Colorado-Englewood
Primary Location
United States-Nebraska-Omaha
Industry
IT
Job Posting
May 28, 2026
Company Beliefs
We are committed to the principles of employment equity. We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.hdrinc.com/equal-employment-opportunity-employer). We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.