Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer

This position is designated as a hybrid role based out of our headquarters near Portland Oregon. The current expectation is for employees to work onsite four days per week subject to change based on business needs. This in-office requirement may be adjusted at the discretion of the company.

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At Columbia were as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide were proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest where natural wonders are our playground.

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: Its perfect. Now make it better. As pioneers of relentless improvement we are constantly evolving.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.

And we believe in you.

ABOUT THE POSITION
We are seeking a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer to serve as a hands-on technical expert responsible for enterprise storage platforms global file services backup and recovery replication and disaster recovery capabilities. This individual will partner closely with infrastructure engineering teams supporting compute virtualization networking and cloud environments while ensuring Columbias most critical data platforms remain secure resilient scalable and recoverable.

This role is ideal for a storage-focused infrastructure engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges improving platform reliability supporting modernization initiatives and helping drive operational excellence across a global enterprise.

HOW YOULL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Administer and support enterprise storage platforms including Pure Storage Qumulo Dell PowerStore and related storage technologies.
• Design configure and manage storage provisioning performance optimization capacity planning replication and lifecycle management activities.
• Serve as a technical lead for backup recovery retention and disaster recovery capabilities across global infrastructure environments.
• Administer and optimize Commvault data protection solutions ensuring recoverability objectives and compliance requirements are consistently met.
• Support global file sharing file services replication and data resiliency solutions for associates and business applications worldwide.
• Partner with infrastructure engineering teams supporting VMware Windows Server Linux and hybrid cloud platforms to deliver reliable compute and storage services.
• Lead storage migrations platform upgrades modernization initiatives and technology refresh projects.
• Develop operational runbooks technical documentation monitoring standards and recovery procedures that improve platform reliability and operational maturity.
• Participate in incident response root cause analysis service restoration activities and continuous improvement efforts.
• Collaborate with global engineering teams to standardize storage architectures operational practices governance controls and support models.

YOU ARE

• A hands-on infrastructure engineer with deep expertise in enterprise storage and data protection technologies.
• Someone who enjoys troubleshooting complex storage backup and replication challenges in production environments.
• A technical leader who can influence decisions through expertise documentation and collaboration.
• A proactive engineer who focuses on reliability resiliency recoverability and operational excellence.
• A trusted partner who works effectively with infrastructure security networking cloud and application teams.

YOU HAVE

• 5 years of enterprise experience supporting storage infrastructure backup platforms and disaster recovery solutions.
• Hands-on administration experience with Commvault and enterprise backup/recovery technologies.
• Extensive experience with one or more enterprise storage platforms including Pure Storage Qumulo Dell PowerStore NetApp Dell EMC or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting VMware Windows Server Linux and enterprise datacenter environments.
• Experience with storage replication business continuity disaster recovery testing backup architecture and global file services.
• Familiarity with PowerShell automation tools infrastructure monitoring and operational support best practices.
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments supporting highly available production systems.
• Strong documentation troubleshooting communication and problem-solving skills.

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities but constitutes a general definition of the positions scope and function in the company.

Columbia Sportswear Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religion national origin disability protected Veteran status age or any other characteristic protected by law. Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process please notify your recruiter.

At Columbia Sportswear Company were proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical social/emotional financial career and community. Benefits that can protect your familys financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical dental vision life Insurance disability flexible spending accounts health savings account and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident critical illness hospital indemnity and legal services). In addition Columbia offers EAP which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

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