Lead Backup & Recovery Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $6.8k - $11.9k / month

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Ferguson

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10,000+ employees

🏗️ Construction

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

Construction • Manufacturing • Logistics

Ferguson is a leading supplier of plumbing and HVAC products for residential and commercial markets. The company offers a wide range of products including water heaters, plumbing parts, and HVAC systems, as well as various tools and cleaning supplies. Ferguson provides solutions for professionals in the plumbing and HVAC industries, ensuring they have access to the resources and expertise they need for both new construction and remodeling projects.

📋 Description

• Coordinate enterprise data protection architecture for on-premises and cloud environments • Set technical direction for data protection and recovery • Define backup policies, recovery objectives, data lifecycle strategy, governance frameworks, and standards • Own recoverability assurance, platform strategy, and vendor selection • Lead backup platform migrations, including sequencing, risk positioning, and cutover authority • Own enterprise data protection strategy across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments • Design and implement resilient, ransomware-resistant backup and recovery solutions • Establish protection patterns for virtual, physical, database, containerized, SaaS, and cloud-native workloads • Develop disaster recovery architectures, replication strategies, failover/failback processes, and recovery testing programs • Serve as technical authority during disaster recovery exercises, audits, major incidents, and recovery events • Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Storage, Database, and Application teams • Define governance, compliance, and security controls supporting SOX, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and internal standards • Own resource planning, performance management, growth forecasting, licensing strategy, and cost optimization • Establish reporting, dashboards, indicators, and service-level metrics • Drive automation initiatives across the backup estate • Lead vendor relationships, roadmap discussions, proof-of-concept evaluations, and technology recommendations • Provide technical leadership, mentoring, design reviews, and escalation support • Maintain hands-on involvement in architecture validation, complex problem solving, platform upgrades, and critical implementations • Present findings, risk positions, and program status to senior leadership, IT steering committees, and audit and risk functions • Set capability development plans and review team designs

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience with enterprise backup and recovery platforms, including time in a lead, principal, or architect capacity • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, or a combination of education and experience • Experience leading enterprise-scale end-to-end migrations of backup systems, with accountability for cutover and validation • Experience owning data protection architecture across a large, heterogeneous estate • Experience establishing governance frameworks, standards, and SLA reporting • Experience leading vendor selection, including RFP and RFI development, PoC evaluation, and formal recommendation • Background in requirements gathering, gap analysis, and formal solution documentation • Deep understanding of cloud backup and cloud storage tiering in at least one major provider (AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP) • Working knowledge of SAN, NAS, object storage, snapshots, and replication • Deep understanding of disaster recovery frameworks, RTO and RPO design, and DR testing methodologies • Experience designing immutable, ransomware-resilient, and air-gapped or isolated recovery architectures • Familiarity with ITIL practices and formal change management processes • Ability to communicate technical risk, options, and recommendations to upper management and steering committees • Vendor certifications in enterprise backup and recovery platforms preferred • Professional-level cloud certifications preferred • ITIL certification preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Paid time off • Life insurance • 401(k) with a company match • Mental health coverage • Gender affirming benefits • Family building benefits • Paid parental leave • Associate discounts • Community involvement opportunities • Bonus or incentive plan eligibility