Senior Lead Architect - Backup & Disaster Recovery

Company

Cox Communications, Inc.

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Sr Lead Cloud Architect

Management Level

Sr Manager - Non People Leader

Flexible Work Option

Can work remotely but need to live in the specified city, state, or region

Travel %

Yes, 5% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $159,400.00 - $265,600.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

At RapidScale, exceptional technology is powered by exceptional people. We deliver secure, reliable managed and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid clouds, helping organizations innovate, adapt, and grow. As an Elite Broadcom VMware VCSP Partner and top partner with AWS, Azure, and Google, our solutions focus on business outcomes with embedded cyber resiliency and AI to protect today and enable tomorrow backed by the strength of the Cox family of companies.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Architect to lead our Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) initiatives. This role is critical to ensuring the resilience, availability, and recoverability of our cloud infrastructure and services. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and educating other teams on enterprise-grade BDR solutions using Veeam, Zerto, and VMware Live Recovery. 

   

Job Summary: 

The Backup and DR Architect position works independently identifying areas of improvement in current processes, procedures, and technical challenges to drive innovation, scaling, and stability within RapidScale’s BDR solutions. This person will be responsible for collaborating with all teams to optimize deployment, performance, and support of our BDR product offerings. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in virtualization, cloud services, and infrastructure architecture, with a focus on delivering scalable and secure BDR environments that meet business needs. They will also review existing and create new reference architecture documents to establish standards and best practices for new implementations.

Other area's this person will impact are:

• Creating and maintaining knowledge base articles. 

• Work closely with Product and Operations teams on operationalizing new solutions and services or adding features to existing products and services to ensure smooth transitions and effective support for new features and products. 

• Developing and delivering training programs for support engineers and other relevant teams  

• Support the SE team, addressing any questions about solutions and new implementations for new opportunities.  

• Serving as an escalation point and liaison between the software vendors and Operations team when bugs are discovered. 

• For on-prem solutions, collaboration with the hosted cloud infrastructure team is essential to ensure infrastructure requirements and performance needs are met.  

• Working with the monitoring and implementations team to ensure all customer-managed devices are monitored adequately to meet SLOs. 

 

What you will do: 

• Design and implement backup-based cloud solutions, including Veeam Backup & Replication