Data Resilience Engineer (P3)

CAS uses intuitive technology, unparalleled scientific content, and deep domain expertise to help organizations create innovations that improve lives around the world. As the scientific information solutions division of the American Chemical Society, CAS curates the world's largest collection of scientific knowledge and has empowered innovators for more than 118 years. Our global team is diverse, collaborative, and passionate about making scientific insight accessible to drive breakthrough discoveries. 

Position Summary 

CAS is seeking a Data Resilience Engineer.

Primary Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize Commvault and related enterprise backup and recovery platforms, including configuration, policy management and resolution of complex incidents, and act as the recognized authority source for backup and recovery questions.
• Plan, lead and document recovery testing for business-critical systems; evaluate results, identify gaps, and drive remediation with application owners.
• Partner with application owners to validate backup recoverability and to define, document and confirm RPO and RTO requirements, and recommend protection approaches that meet them.
• Administer enterprise storage platforms, including Infinidat, NetApp and Pure, covering provisioning, capacity planning and performance analysis.
• Provide technical consultation to cloud, infrastructure, security and application teams on data protection and recovery strategies for hybrid cloud environments.
• Set priorities, establish estimates and completion dates, and manage assignments independently with minimal management oversight; take prompt corrective action when progress deviates from plan.
• Design and implement automation, monitoring and reporting that improve reliability, standardize operations and reduce manual effort.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams and recovery documentation so they are accurate and usable during recovery events.
• Provide capacity, lifecycle and cost data to support financial analysis of new tools, processes and technologies.
• Communicate the customer impact of planned changes and maintain clear, well-organized technical communications for audiences ranging from engineers to business stakeholders.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Measures of Success

• Backup and recovery services for business-critical systems meet agreed success and availability targets.
• Recovery requests and scheduled recovery tests are completed on agreed dates, with outcomes documented and gaps tracked to resolution.
• RPO and RTO requirements are documented and validated with application owners for in-scope systems.
• Runbooks and recovery documentation are current and verified through testing.
• Automation and standardization measurably reduce manual effort and operational risk.
• Risks are identified early, communicated, and addressed before they affect critical data availability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of related infrastructure engineering experience; or 3 years and a Master’s degree;
• Experience in enterprise infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years supporting enterprise backup and recovery platforms and 3+ years supporting enterprise storage environments.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production systems and disaster recovery activities.
• Working proficiency in scripting or infrastructure automation.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, set priorities, and manage assignments to committed dates.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data protection solutions in public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with cloud storage, backup, snapshot and recovery concepts.
• Experience with cyber recovery or ransomware resilience planning.

Technical Skills

• Enterprise backup and recovery (Commvault): advanced
• Enterprise storage (Infinidat, NetApp, Pure; SAN/NAS/S3): advanced
• Disaster recovery and business continuity: proficient
• Cyber resilience and recovery: proficient
• Hybrid cloud data protection and recovery: proficient
• Infrastructure automation: proficient