Designs, implements, automates, secures, and supports enterprise storage, SAN, backup, recovery, and hybrid-cloud data protection platforms. Responsibilities include architecture, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, observability, cyber resilience, disaster recovery, incident response, capacity planning, upgrades, migrations, and recovery validation. The role collaborates across infrastructure, security, cloud, database, and application teams, mentors engineers, manages vendors, and improves reliability, recoverability, compliance, and operational efficiency.