# Associate Director, Staff Storage & Backup Engineering

**Company**: IQVIA
**Location**: Frankfurt, Hesse
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an Associate Director, Staff Storage & Backup Engineering to lead the architecture, engineering, automation, and lifecycle management of enterprise storage and data protection platforms across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and public cloud environments.

**Job Summary** The Staff Storage & Backup Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for the architecture, engineering, automation, and lifecycle management of enterprise storage and data protection platforms across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and public cloud environments. This role has a primary focus on VAST Data, NetApp, and Commvault technologies and will lead the design, optimization, modernization, and operational excellence of storage and backup services.

**Responsibilities**

### Storage Architecture & Engineering

- Lead the architecture, engineering, and lifecycle management of storage platforms with a primary focus on VAST Data and NetApp technologies.

- Design and optimize scalable storage solutions supporting enterprise and mission-critical workloads.

- Lead storage modernization, migration, consolidation, and cloud integration initiatives.

- Provide advanced troubleshooting and performance optimization across storage environments.

### Backup, Recovery & Data Protection

- Design, implement, and optimize enterprise backup and recovery solutions with a primary focus on Commvault.

- Develop cyber-resilient data protection strategies including immutable backup and ransomware recovery.

- Ensure backup and recovery capabilities support defined RPO and RTO objectives.

- Lead recovery testing and validation exercises.

### Cloud & Automation

- Design and support storage and data protection solutions across AWS and Microsoft Azure.

- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code and automation solutions using Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bicep, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.

- Drive automation initiatives that improve operational efficiency and reliability.

### Technical Leadership

- Provide technical leadership for enterprise infrastructure projects and modernization initiatives.

- Contribute to technology roadmaps and future-state architecture planning.

- Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.

**Requirements**

- 10+ years of infrastructure engineering experience with significant expertise in enterprise storage and data protection.

- Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise storage solutions using NetApp and/or VAST Data platforms.

- Strong experience architecting and supporting enterprise backup and recovery solutions using Commvault.

- Experience supporting storage and backup services across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and public cloud environments.

- Experience developing Infrastructure-as-Code and automation solutions.

- Proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure modernization, migration, or cloud transformation initiatives.

**Nice to Have**

- Experience with both VAST Data and NetApp environments.

- Cyber recovery, ransomware resilience, and immutable backup experience.

- Kubernetes storage and container data protection experience.

- Relevant AWS, Azure, NetApp, Commvault, VMware, or infrastructure certifications.

## Skills

### Required
- VAST Data
- NetApp
- Commvault
- Terraform
- Ansible
- PowerShell
- Python
- Bicep
- CloudFormation
- SAN
- NAS
- Object Storage
- Fibre Channel
- Replication
- Disaster Recovery

### Nice to have
- Cyber Recovery
- Ransomware Resilience
- Immutable Backups
- Kubernetes Storage
- AWS
- Azure
- VMware

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