Presales Storage Backup Architect – Unstructured Data, Hybrid Cloud

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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10,000+ employees

🏢 Enterprise

🔧 Hardware

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $1.5G Post-IPO Equity - Hewlett Packard Enterprise on 2025-04

Enterprise • Hardware • Artificial Intelligence

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an enterprise-focused technology company that delivers infrastructure, software, and services to help organizations build, manage, and secure hybrid cloud and AI-enabled environments. The company’s offerings — reflected in the provided text — include servers and high-performance computing (HPE ProLiant, HPE Cray), enterprise storage (HPE Alletra), networking products and services (HPE Aruba, Juniper partnership), AI platforms and turnkey AI factories, hybrid cloud and as-a-service offerings (GreenLake), security and networking (Zero Trust, SASE), and a broad portfolio of professional, advisory, and support services. HPE positions itself as a partner for large organizations modernizing data centers, deploying AI at scale, and adopting hybrid cloud operations.

📋 Description

• Partner with customers and backup administrators to assess backup environments, identify recovery gaps, and design scalable storage architectures • Size backup storage targets using capacity, change rate, retention, growth, backup frequency, concurrency, replication, recovery objectives, data reduction, and headroom assumptions • Translate Commvault, Veeam, Cohesity, and related configurations into storage, throughput, networking, resilience, and operational requirements • Evaluate deduplication and compression behavior and explain factors affecting data reduction and sizing • Lead customer workshops, assessments, proofs of concept, and performance validations • Provide competitive expertise on Dell EMC Data Domain and other enterprise backup targets • Architect and document X10K-centered enterprise backup and fast-recovery solutions • Conduct structured discovery using backup reports, capacity tools, job histories, retention schedules, and customer interviews • Build transparent sizing models with assumptions, data reduction ranges, growth projections, capacity requirements, risks, and sensitivities • Design for full, incremental, synthetic full, forever-incremental, GFS, auxiliary copy, replication, archive, and long-term retention strategies • Troubleshoot performance or capacity issues across backup software, media/proxy layers, networks, storage targets, source workloads, and data reduction paths • Present recommendations and tradeoffs to technical, procurement, security, and executive audiences • Support RFIs, RFPs, competitive takeouts, business cases, and solution justification • Create reusable sizing guidance, discovery checklists, reference architectures, competitive material, and field enablement • Maintain current knowledge of backup and recovery trends, ransomware-resilient architectures, immutable storage, cyber recovery, cloud integration, and backup software

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, sizing, and positioning enterprise storage solutions • Substantial customer-facing presales, consulting, or solution architecture experience • Experience sizing storage targets for backup and recovery • Ability to work from incomplete customer data, identify missing inputs, document assumptions, and quantify sizing risk • Deep practical understanding of backup administration, backup windows, recovery workflows, RPO and RTO, retention, full and incremental strategies, copy policies, replication, immutability, and operational recovery testing • Strong knowledge of deduplication and compression • Experience with at least two of Commvault, Veeam, and Cohesity • Hands-on experience with Dell EMC Data Domain, including DD Boost concepts, capacity and performance sizing, data reduction expectations, and competitive positioning • Working knowledge of enterprise object and file storage, including S3, NFS, and SMB • Experience planning, executing, and documenting customer POCs and performance validations • Excellent discovery, analytical, troubleshooting, communication, presentation, and executive-facing skills • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience • Knowledge of Commvault, Veeam, Cohesity DataProtect or comparable scale-out backup platforms, and Dell EMC Data Domain and DD Boost • Familiarity with HPE StoreOnce/Catalyst, ExaGrid, Pure Storage, NetApp, or other enterprise backup targets is a strong plus • Experience with protected environments such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Windows and Linux file systems, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle RMAN, SAP, NAS, and cloud-native workloads • Ability to travel as needed

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing • Health and wellbeing benefits • Personal and professional development programs • Career development opportunities • Flexible work arrangements to manage work and personal needs • Remote/teleworker work arrangement