[Hiring] Lead Backup & Recovery Engineer @FERGUSON

Role Description

As a Lead Backup & Recovery Engineer, you will coordinate activities related to the enterprise data protection architecture for on-premises and cloud environments. You will set the technical direction for how the organization protects and recovers its data.

• Define backup policies, recovery objectives, and data lifecycle strategy in agreement with the business.
• Establish the governance framework and standards the estate is held to.
• Own recoverability assurance and platform strategy.
• Lead backup platform migrations including sequencing, risk position, and cutover authority.
• This is a technical leadership role rather than a day-to-day break-fix role.
• Present findings, risk positions, and program status to senior leadership, IT steering committees, and audit and risk functions.
• Set the capability development plan for engineers and operators and review the designs the team produces.
• Remain hands-on enough to prototype new capability and lead the highest-risk implementation work personally.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Demonstrable experience leading enterprise-scale end-to-end migrations of backup systems, with accountability for cutover and validation.
• Proven ownership of data protection architecture across a large, heterogeneous estate.
• Experience establishing governance frameworks, standards, and SLA reporting where none previously existed.
• Experience leading vendor selection, including RFP and RFI development, PoC evaluation, and formal recommendation.
• Good 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 storage technologies including 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.

Requirements

• Experience with multiple enterprise backup and recovery platforms, including complex or post-acquisition environments.
• Experience developing and presenting data protection strategies within regulated industries.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise database protection and application-consistent recovery (Oracle, SQL Server, SAP, PostgreSQL).
• Experience protecting Kubernetes, containerized, cloud-native, and SaaS workloads, including Microsoft 365.
• Proficiency with scripting, automation, and infrastructure-as-code methodologies.
• Experience supporting budgeting, licensing strategy, vendor negotiations, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Demonstrable ability to drive continuous improvement, service modernization, and operational excellence.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Life insurance.
• 401(k) with a company match.
• Mental health coverage.
• Gender affirming and family building benefits.
• Paid parental leave.
• Associate discounts.
• Community involvement opportunities.