As the Resiliency Engineer, you help design and evolve QTS’s Infrastructure Resiliency capability – working across the architecture for backup, disaster recovery orchestration, and cyber-resilient infrastructure. You help set the design standards, integration patterns, and technology roadmap that the broader engineering team implements and operates against.

What You Will Do:

• Own the end-to-end architecture for QTS’s resiliency platform portfolio across backup (Cohesity, FortKnox, Azure, AWS), SaaS protection (GitProtect), identity DR (Semperis), and DR orchestration.
• Define and maintain design standards, reference architectures, and integration patterns for all recovery and resilience platforms.
• Own the Infrastructure Resiliency roadmap; refresh it on at least an annual cadence and as the threat, vendor, and infrastructure landscape shifts.
• Lead platform technology selection and vendor evaluation – proofs of concept, capability assessments, and architectural recommendations.
• Design the target-state recovery architecture and evolve it continuously as QTS’s infrastructure footprint, cloud estate, and site portfolio grow.
• Own capacity and growth planning across the resiliency platform portfolio – forecasting storage, compute, and licensing needs and feeding those projections into refresh, expansion, and budget planning.
• Establish integration and architecture-review standards for every new system entering resiliency scope, ensuring recovery is designed in – not bolted on.
• Partner with the broader engineering team, InfraOps, enterprise architecture, and the CISO organization on recovery topology, dependency mapping, and cyber-resilient design.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need to Be Successful:

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related field (Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems) or equivalent practical experience.
• US Citizenship required.
• 5+ years in enterprise infrastructure, data protection, or disaster recovery, including hands-on platform design experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing or contributing to recovery, backup, or DR platform architecture – technology selection, design standards, and integration across multiple platforms.
• Strong command of backup and recovery architecture, DR orchestration, and cloud (Azure/AWS) recovery design.
• Ability to translate recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) and business risk into sound, implementable platform architecture.
• Strong technical documentation, roadmap ownership, and the ability to influence engineering and infrastructure teams without direct authority.

Other Key Skills:

• Ability to define reference architectures and design standards across compute (VMware, Hyper-V, cloud), storage/SAN/NAS, replication, and data protection platforms.
• Familiarity with immutable, air-gapped, and clean-room recovery architecture patterns.
• Understanding of identity/DNS/network control planes (AD, Azure AD) and their impact on recovery topology.
• Vendor evaluation and technology-roadmap ownership in a fast-moving data center environment.
• Capacity and growth forecasting for storage, compute, and licensing.
• Regulatory and audit-driven architecture familiarity (CMMC, NIS2, DORA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP).
• Certifications such as TOGAF, CISSP, or platform architecture certifications (Cohesity, Azure/AWS) preferred.