Jobs · Engineering · Oregon

Storage & Data Protection Engineer 2

HDR · Portland, OR · 3 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$93k–$133k/yrFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Independently administer vSAN storage policies, storage tiers, and workload-aligned provisioning patterns.
  • Monitor and manage storage capacity across VCF sites; identify trends and recommend remediation or expansion actions.
  • Operate VCF-native data protection capabilities, including snapshots, replication, and Live Recovery workflows for supported use cases.
  • Administer and support backup and recovery operations across virtual infrastructure, storage platforms, and selected cloud services.
  • Perform restore testing, recovery validation, and routine disaster recovery procedure support.
  • Troubleshoot storage performance issues across workload classes and recommend tuning changes.
  • Support migration planning from legacy backup tools to VCF-native or standardized recovery capabilities.
  • Contribute to documentation of backup standards, restore procedures, recovery runbooks, and storage best practices.
  • Cookordination with platform, network, and cloud teams on changes that affect storage resiliency and recoverability.
  • Develop practical knowledge of adjacent VCF tools and dependencies that influence storage and recovery outcomes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
  • Minimum 3 years of experience in enterprise storage, backup, virtualization, or infrastructure engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with VMware vSAN administration and storage policy management.
  • Experience supporting backup, restore, replication, and disaster recovery processes.
  • Experience with storage capacity planning, performance analysis, and operational troubleshooting.
  • Working knowledge of VMware vSphere and storage interactions within virtualized infrastructure.
  • Ability to independently manage routine operational work and contribute to problem resolution.

Qualifications

  • Preferred Qualifications: Experience with VMware Live Recovery, Experience with Commvault, Veeam, or backup platform migration efforts, Familiarity with NVMe, modern storage architecture, and workload performance design, Familiarity with public cloud storage protection strategies, VMware vSAN Specialist or similar certification, Exposure to VCF tools such as SDDC Manager, VCF Operations, or NSX dependencies.

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.

Primary Location

United States-Nebraska-Omaha

Other Locations

  • United States-Arizona-Phoenix
  • 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

Industry

IT

Business Class

Marketing and Admin

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