Remote Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Jobs in Iowa

Design and build next-generation enterprise storage and data protection platforms that ensure resilient, scalable, and fully recoverable data services. This role focuses on automation-first engineering, modern storage architectures, and end-to-end data protection, enabling the organization to protect, recover, and scale critical workloads with confidence. 

About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior Storage and Data Protection Engineer to play a critical role in designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale storage and data protection platforms. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on delivering highly reliable, scalable, and fully recoverable data services across on-premises and hybrid environments.  

In this role, you will go beyond traditional storage or backup administration and apply an engineering-first mindset to how storage and data protection platforms are designed and operated. You will build systems that are automated, observable, and resilient by design - ensuring that critical enterprise data is not only protected, but can be rapidly and reliably recovered under real-world failure scenarios. You will work across block, file, and object storage platforms as well as modern data protection systems supporting backup, replication, and disaster recovery. A key responsibility will be advancing data protection maturity by implementing immutable backup architectures, automated recovery validation, and robust disaster recovery strategies. You will collaborate closely with application, database, platform, and infrastructure teams to integrate storage and data protection into modern platforms such as Kubernetes, virtualization environments, and hybrid cloud architectures. This role also focuses on improving operational excellence by eliminating manual toil through automation, strengthening observability, and establishing robust practices such as continuous validation, testing, and improvement. Success is defined by ensuring storage and data protection platforms operate as fully engineered systems with predictable performance and recovery outcomes. Ultimately this role is foundational to the organization's ability to safeguard critical data, maintain business continuity, and modernize infrastructure platforms at scale.

MidAmerican Energy Company, a Midwest utility, provides regulated electric and natural gas service to more than 1.6 million customers in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. The company owns and operates a portfolio of power-generating assets, approximately 61% of which is wind generation.MidAmerican Energy Company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law. Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without an accommodation.

Required Qualifications: 
    Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience 
    5+ years experience in storage infrastructure (SAN,NAS,NFS, SMB, S3 etc.), and/or data protection engineering 
    Hands-on experience with enterprise storage systems (block, file, object) 
    Experience with backup and recovery platforms (e.g., Commvault or equivalent) 
    Strong scripting/programming skills (Python, Bash, or Go) 
    Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools 
    Strong troubleshooting skills across storage and data protection systems 
Preferred Qualifications: 
    Experience with software-defined storage (Ceph or similar) 
    Experience with Kubernetes, virtualization, or hybrid cloud platforms  
    Familiarity with immutable backups and ransomware protection  
    Experience modernizing legacy storage and backup platforms

Key Responsibilities: 
Storage Platform Engineering: 
    Design, implement, and operate enterprise storage platforms across block, file, and object storage  
    Manage performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and lifecycle operations  
    Evaluate and adopt modern and software-defined storage architectures  
Data Protection & Recovery Engineering (Primary Focus): 
    Design, deploy, and operate backup, replication, and disaster recovery solutions  
    Own end-to-end lifecycle including implementation, migration, upgrades, and optimization  
    Implement immutable backup, retention, and offsite strategies  
    Perform and automate restore validation and disaster recovery testing  
    Ensure systems are fully recoverable-not just backed up  
Automation & Infrastructure Engineering: 
    Automate provisioning, backup lifecycle management, and recovery workflows  
    Reduce operational toil through scripting and platform engineering  
    Treat infrastructure and configuration as code with version control and testing  
Operational Excellence & Incident Management: 
    Troubleshoot and resolve complex storage performance, backup, and recovery issues 
    Own platform health including backup success rates and recovery SLAs  
    Develop runbooks and operational procedures  
    Participate in incident response and post-incident analysis  
Optimization & Efficiency: 
    Continuously optimize storage and backup platforms for performance, cost, and utilization  
    Drive improvements in capacity planning and lifecycle management  
Observability, Security & Compliance: 
    Monitor performance, capacity, and data protection coverage  
    Ensure compliance with security and data protection policies  
    Implement alerting and automated remediation  
Collaboration: 
    Partner with application, database, and platform teams Integrate storage and protection into Kubernetes, virtualization, and hybrid cloud platforms