Location: Dearborn, MI (On-site: 4 days/week)
Department: Enterprise IT – Infrastructure & Data Protection
Type: Full-Time | Senior Specialist (7+ years experience)
Position Overview:
Are you ready to drive innovation at one of the world’s most iconic automotive companies? Seeking a visionary Cohesity Backup Administrator to join our dynamic team in Dearborn, MI. This is more than a job—it’s a mission to protect digital future during a critical global rollout.
We’re looking for a strategic thinker and hands-on technologist who views backup and recovery as an opportunity to engineer resilience, automate efficiency, and safeguard data across the enterprise. If you’re a team player, a problem-solver, and someone who brings positive energy to every challenge—this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and maintain Cohesity backup infrastructure for reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Automate backup operations, including protection group creation/deletion and GitHub-based infrastructure changes.
- Collaborate with security teams to implement robust data protection measures (DLP, insider threat mitigation, access controls).
- Monitor and optimize backup server performance, usage patterns, and SLA metrics to ensure system reliability.
- Design and maintain backup and recovery procedures to support business continuity and threat resilience.
- Analyze system capacity and performance trends to forecast future infrastructure needs and guide investment decisions.
- Perform routine maintenance including patches, upgrades, and enhancements to ensure system health and compliance.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 7+ years of experience in enterprise backup and recovery, preferably in large-scale environments.
- Hands-on experience with Cohesity backup solutions.
- Proficient in Windows Server and Linux Server administration.
- Strong automation mindset with expertise in PowerShell, Python, and Ansible.
- Experience with GitHub and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure code management.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills—must be a team player with a positive attitude.
Preferred Skills:
- Advanced automation experience using scripting and orchestration tools.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and DevOps practices.
- Experience in performance tuning and capacity planning for backup systems.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.
