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We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.\nEmbrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values - honesty, integrity, loyalty and service - define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.\nWe are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.\nThe Opportunity\nAs a dedicated Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Data Protection, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and troubleshooting our data backup, recovery, and cyber resiliency solutions. This role is critical for ensuring business continuity, data integrity, and the protection of our organization's valuable information against data loss, system failures, and cyber threats.\nYou will create, modify, maintain and support infrastructure system components that enable IT Services. You will balance availability, security, efficiency and functional requirements to help provide an optimized production service. You will also identify and manage existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and ensure these risks are effectively identified and escalated to be measured, monitored and controlled.\nWe offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Colorado Springs, CO, Charlotte, NC, or Tampa, FL. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.\nWhat you'll do:\nDrives data protection transformation initiatives focused on simplification, standardization, resilience, and operational efficiency, alongside developing engineering standards, implementation plans, and technical documentation.\nArchitects and deploys data protection solutions for Virtual Hosts, SQL, NO-SQL, DB2, Oracle distributed workloads, as well as cloud (Azure and AWS), SaaS, and Active Directory workloads. \nSupports critical operational automation, requiring the development and implementation of Infrastructure-as-Code solutions, automated workflows, and process improvements to streamline operations and enhance deployment consistency. \nMaintains focus on regulatory compliance, business continuity, cyber resilience, and assurance of data integrity and immutability.\nIndependently designs scalable IT system infrastructure, provides oversight and priority for system change - reserves execution for complex implementations, and automates service delivery and maintenance tasks; provides direction and priority for monitoring and tooling activities.\nIndependently resolves highly complex technology production issues and leads troubleshooting of end-to-end solutions that span across multiple systems.\nLeads analysis of end-to-end system failures to identify opportunities across multiple systems. Makes recommendations to business leaders on process and business solution improvements.\nIndependently experiments with new patterns and technologies.\nHelps establish and improve engineering best practices, concepts, and patterns with peers and the business.\nUnderstands the customer and proactively identifies innovative solutions and ideas for the product/business.\nMentors' engineers, coach engineers on design, development, and maintenance of systems.\nDevelop software defined infrastructure in code in CI/CD Pipelines.\nEnsures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.\nWhat you have: Education:\nBachelor's degree; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.\n6 years of infrastructure experience demonstrating depth of technical understanding within a specific discipline(s)/technology(s) to include 2 years' experience in Systems Operations environment supporting complex environment deployment and infrastructure management activities or applicable IT experience such as IT Management, Software Development, Data Engineering, and Agile Product/Release Management.\n4 years of experience in designing, implementing and maintaining data backup, recovery, and cyber resiliency infrastructure.\nAdvanced level of business acumen in the areas of business operations, risk management, industry practices and emerging trends.\nKnowledge and proficient understanding of designing scalable IT system infrastructures, implementing system changes, or automating service delivery and maintenance tasks.\nDemonstrated experience working with cloud technologies and tools.\nDemonstrated experience working with image-based backup solutions, virtualized infrastructure, database backups, and disaster recovery.\nWhat sets you apart:\nExperience in developing, deploying and maintaining large scale backup/recovery solutions.\nExperience in implementing cyber recovery solutions that includes ability to detect and respond to threats and quickly restore operations.\nExperience developing and maintaining automated restore orchestration.\nExperience working in an environment with strict federal regulations and operational control standards designed to ensure business continuity, data integrity and privacy.\nRubrik Certifications such as Rubrik Certified System Administrator (RCSA) and Rubrik Certified Cloud Specialist (RCCS)\nAutomation experience with Ansible. \nUS military experience gained through military service or gained as a military spouse / domestic partner. \nCompensation range: The salary range for this position is: $114,080 - $218,030.\nUSAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT Training Plans, etc.).\nCompensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location.\nEmployees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.\nThe above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.\nBenefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.\nFor more details on our outstanding benefits, visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.\nApplications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.\nUSAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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