Senior Hosting Reliability Engineer - Data Protection
MathWorks
Senior Hosting Reliability Engineer - Data Protection
- Job: 35549-MMCC
- Team: Information Technology
- Location: US-MA-Natick
- Salary Range: $105,100 - $162,900
- Date posted: 2025-07-31
Job Summary
Would you like to join a team making a positive impact at MathWorks? IT Hosting is modernizing our Data Backup and Recovery infrastructure and the way we operate it. You will be responsible for designing, deploying, maintaining, and supporting the Data Backup and Recovery infrastructure. You will contribute greatly to the team, leveraging your skills to accelerate our work and simplify operations.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, maintain, and support data backup and recovery solutions across physical, virtual, and cloud-based infrastructure.
- Demonstrated experience with business continuity planning and disaster recovery
- Adept at partnering with business teams to identify business continuity and resilience requirements and craft solutions that fully support them
- Automate operational tasks to streamline and enhance the reliability of backup and recovery processes.
- Monitor, manage, and optimize the run state of backup infrastructure, ensuring high availability and rapid recovery.
- Lead and coordinate incident response for data loss or recovery events, minimizing impact and ensuring swift restoration of services.
- Support the full lifecycle of infrastructure—from provisioning to decommissioning—ensuring secure and compliant data handling.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of backup and recovery procedures, leveraging analytics to identify trends and recommend enhancements.
- Document and share knowledge related to backup and recovery best practices, supporting team learning and process excellence.
- Participate in on-call rotation to support production infrastructure and applications.
Minimum Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.
Additional Qualifications
Some combination of the following:
- Proven experience in infrastructure operations, with a focus on data backup, recovery, and storage management.
- Strong knowledge of incident and problem management processes.
- Experience with Windows operating systems administration.
- Familiarity with automation/scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bash).
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Hands-on experience with Veeam Backup & Replication or similar enterprise backup solutions
- Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-based backup strategies.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
- Knowledge of container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and their backup/recovery considerations.
- Experience with database administration and recovery (SQL, NoSQL).
Why MathWorks?
It's the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It's the opportunity to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. And it’s a commitment to doing the right thing—for each individual, our customers, and the local community. We cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that champions individual growth, encourages initiative, values collaboration, shares success, and rewards excellence.
MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs more than 6,500 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.
YOU + MathWorks = Unlimited Possibilities
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