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About the Role

The Senior Storage Engineer (L3) – Backup, Recovery & Data Protection Engineering is responsible for the design, engineering, implementation, operation, and continuous optimization of enterprise backup, recovery, cyber resilience, and data protection solutions supporting Humana's mission-critical business services and healthcare platforms. This position serves as a senior technical leader within the Storage Engineering organization and functions as a primary escalation point for complex backup, recovery, and data protection challenges.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain enterprise backup and recovery architectures supporting critical business applications and infrastructure.
Engineer scalable, resilient, and secure backup solutions across physical, virtual, cloud, SaaS, and containerized environments.
Develop and maintain backup standards, recovery procedures, operational runbooks, and engineering documentation.
Lead backup platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
Establish and maintain recovery service levels, recovery objectives, and testing standards.
Administer and engineer enterprise data protection platforms including IBM Storage Protect (Spectrum Protect / TSM), IBM Storage Defender Data Protect, Rubrik Security Cloud, Commvault, and Cloud-native backup technologies.
Perform platform architecture, capacity planning, performance tuning, security hardening, and lifecycle management.
Provide troubleshooting and escalation support for data protection platforms.
Design and implement cyber recovery strategies to improve organizational resilience in partnership with the DR team.
Partner with Information Security teams to support ransomware preparedness initiatives.
Evaluate and implement immutable storage, air-gapped recovery vaults, and cyber recovery technologies.
Participate in cyber recovery exercises and validation testing.
Identify and mitigate risks impacting recoverability and business continuity.
Provide technical leadership for backup, storage, and recovery architecture initiatives.
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to existing platforms.
Participate in enterprise architecture reviews and infrastructure design discussions.
Define standards, patterns, and best practices for enterprise data protection services.
Contribute to long-term strategic roadmaps for data protection and cyber resilience.
Develop automation solutions using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, Ansible, or similar tools.
Automate provisioning, reporting, monitoring, and operational workflows.
Eliminate manual processes through engineering and self-service solutions.
Create dashboards and reporting capabilities supporting operational visibility and compliance.
Lead onboarding activities for new business units, applications, and infrastructure platforms entering enterprise backup services.
Participate in intake reviews and solution design consultations.
Identify protection gaps, risk exposures, and compliance concerns.
Ensure new workloads meet enterprise backup, recovery, and retention standards.
Support governance and exception management processes.
Collaborate with strategic technology partners including IBM, Rubrik, Dell, Microsoft, and other vendors.
Manage vendor escalations and support engagements.
Participate in technology evaluations, proofs of concept, and product roadmap discussions.
Partner with infrastructure, security, cloud, application, and operations teams to deliver enterprise solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
7+ years of enterprise backup, storage, or data protection experience.
5+ years of experience with one or more enterprise backup platforms: IBM Storage Protect, IBM Storage Defender Data Protect, Commvault, Rubrik, Dell PPDM.
Experience designing and supporting large-scale enterprise backup environments.
Strong understanding of enterprise storage technologies and infrastructure.
Experience supporting VMware, Windows, Linux, and cloud platforms.
Experience with scripting and automation.
Demonstrated project management experience.
Must have the ability to provide a high speed DSL or cable modem for a home office.
A minimum standard speed for optimal performance of 25x10 (25mbps download x 10mbps upload) is required.
Satellite and Wireless Internet service is NOT allowed for this role.
A dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Skills

IBM Storage Protect
IBM Storage Defender Data Protect
Rubrik Security Cloud
Commvault
Cloud-native backup technologies
PowerShell
Python
REST APIs
Ansible
VMware
Windows
Linux
Cloud platforms
Enterprise storage technologies
Cyber recovery
Ransomware resilience
Kubernetes
Container protection technologies
Splunk
Monitoring platforms
Operational analytics
ServiceNow
ITIL practices

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time
Work-At-Home

Experience Level

Senior
7+ years of enterprise backup, storage, or data protection experience
5+ years of experience with one or more enterprise backup platforms

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Salary/Compensations

$106,900 - $147,000 per year

Benefits

Medical benefits
Dental benefits
Vision benefits
401(k) retirement savings plan
Time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave)
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Life insurance
Bonus incentive plan

About the Company

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company.
Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it.
These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

Equal Opportunity

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.
It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements.
This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.