Senior I O Engineering Consultant - Commvault/Veeam/cohesity netbackup, cloud, terraform

Position Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in enterprise backup, cloud data protection, and infrastructure automation. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with NetBackup, Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, and cloud-native backup solutions across Azure, AWS, and GCP environments. This role will drive backup modernization, cyber resilience, cloud adoption, and automation initiatives using Terraform, GitHub, and scripting technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support enterprise backup and recovery solutions across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud environments.
• Administer and optimize backup platforms including NetBackup, Cohesity, Commvault, and Veeam.
• Implement and support Azure Backup, AWS Backup, GCP Backup & DR, and other cloud-native data protection services.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate operational tasks, reporting, monitoring, and platform management using Python, PowerShell, or Shell scripting.
• Lead backup modernization, cyber recovery, disaster recovery, and ransomware protection initiatives.
• Design and support immutable storage, cyber vaults, air-gapped recovery, and isolated recovery environments (IRE).
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, security, application, and architecture teams to ensure backup compliance and recoverability.

• 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Backup Administration, or Data Protection.
• Strong hands-on expertise with NetBackup, Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, or other enterprise backup platforms.
• Experience implementing and managing backup solutions across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Knowledge of cloud-native backup services and hybrid-cloud data protection architectures.
• Strong experience with Terraform, GitHub, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and automation frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar scripting technologies.
• Experience with cyber resilience, ransomware recovery, immutable backups, and disaster recovery planning.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes/OpenShift data protection and enterprise database backup technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• Certifications in NetBackup, Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, Azure, AWS, GCP, Terraform, or Kubernetes.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale backup transformation and cloud migration initiatives.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.