Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.
About the Role
The Senior Domain Engineering Specialist is a high-impact technical advisory role within Veeam’s Center of Expertise, offering the opportunity to work at the intersection of data resilience, security, Veeam Data Platform, and public cloud platforms. In this role, you’ll partner closely with Customer Success Engineers, Customer Success Specialists, Sales Engineers, and Account Teams to help strategic customers accelerate adoption, strengthen resilience, and realize greater value from their investments.
Veeam Data Platform plays a strategic role in helping customers strengthen cyber resilience, accelerate secure recovery, and protect high-value workloads across increasingly complex hybrid and public cloud environments.
As part of Veeam’s Center of Expertise, you’ll engage in strategic customer situations where advanced technical knowledge, architectural guidance, and domain expertise directly shape outcomes. You’ll have broad visibility across customer environments and business priorities, making this role especially compelling for candidates who enjoy solving complex challenges, influencing senior stakeholders, and helping customers build resilient architectures for the future.
You’ll bring expertise across traditional infrastructure, public cloud platforms, virtualization technologies, and cyber resilience architectures, helping customers protect and recover data wherever their applications and workloads reside.
What You’ll Do
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor for strategic customer accounts, providing specialized expertise across data resilience, security, and public cloud platforms.
- Lead architecture reviews, resilience assessments, operational readiness reviews, and solution validation engagements to identify risks, gaps, and opportunities to improve resilience and recoverability.
- Engage technical and executive stakeholders on resilience strategy, cyber recovery preparedness, public cloud modernization, and operational best practices.
- Provide guidance on protecting and recovering workloads across virtual, physical, public cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments.
- Assess customer architectures and advise on data protection, disaster recovery, cyber resilience, and secure recovery strategies across public cloud and enterprise environments.
- Analyze telemetry, platform adoption trends, and operational indicators to identify optimization opportunities and expansion signals.
- Collaborate with Customer Success, Sales Engineering, Product Management, and Support teams to resolve complex technical challenges and advocate for customer outcomes.
- Deliver technical workshops, executive briefings, and strategic advisory sessions that drive adoption and long-term customer success.
- Act as a subject matter expert in Vault, public cloud data protection, cyber resilience, and secure recovery strategies.
What You’ll Bring
The qualifications below include both core requirements and preferred experience. Candidates do not need to meet every preferred qualification to be considered.
- 10+ years of experience in technical consulting, solution architecture, cloud engineering, customer success, infrastructure engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- 5+ years of experience with the Veeam Data Cloud Platform (Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator). Additional Veeam product knowledge is a plus.
- Strong expertise in public cloud platforms, cyber resilience, data protection technologies, and enterprise infrastructure.
- Experience designing, deploying, supporting, or advising on public cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and hybrid cloud architectures.
- Possess an understanding of cloud architecture, identity and access considerations, security best practices, and modern infrastructure design principles.
- Experience with backup, recovery, disaster recovery, cyber resilience, secure recovery, or cyber vaulting strategies across public cloud and enterprise environments.
- Experience with hybrid cloud, virtualization, storage, networking, and enterprise infrastructure.
- Ability to engage technical and executive stakeholders and translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes.
- Experience conducting architecture reviews, technical assessments, workshops, proofs of concept, or strategic advisory engagements.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: Relevant certifications such as VMware, Microsoft, Nutanix, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, security, networking, or equivalent credentials.
- VMCE+ and/or VMCSE certifications highly preferred
What Success Looks Like
- Customers view you as a trusted advisor in areas such as data resilience, cloud, security, and modernization initiatives.
- Complex technical risks are identified and mitigated before they impact customer outcomes.
- Customers successfully adopt and operationalize Veeam solutions across traditional, hybrid, and public cloud environments.
- Customer Success and Sales teams rely on your expertise to support strategic engagements and growth opportunities.
- Customers improve their resilience maturity, accelerate time to value, and realize measurable business outcomes from their investment in Veeam.
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What you'll get
- Unlimited paid time off, 12 paid holidays including 4 global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
- Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on your first day
- Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools via our Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions
- Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support through Maven, plus paid volunteer time
- AirVet: 24/7 virtual veterinary care at no cost
- Legal services, identity protection, and supplemental health insurance options
- Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting
- Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning
Compensation Transparency
Veeam is committed to pay transparency and equitable compensation. For this role, the compensation range below reflects the expected total target compensation (TTC), inclusive of base pay and a competitive performance-based bonus. For roles with a commission plan, the compensation range represents On Target Earnings (OTE), which includes base salary plus variable commission. When determining compensation, Veeam takes into consideration factors such as experience, education, skills, and geographic zone. Offers are typically made below the midpoint of the range.
In addition to compensation, Veeam provides a comprehensive benefits package, including health coverage, retirement plans, and unlimited time off.
Veeam Software is an equal opportunity employer and does not tolerate discrimination in any form on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law. All your information will be kept confidential.
Personal data collected during the recruitment process will be processed in accordance with our Recruiting Privacy Notice, which explains how your information is collected, used, and handled in connection with hiring activities. By applying for this position, you consent to this processing.
By submitting your application, you confirm that the information provided, including any supporting documents, is complete and accurate to the best of your knowledge. Any misrepresentation, omission, or falsification may result in disqualification from consideration or, if discovered after employment begins, termination of employment.
Veeam Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Chicago, United States
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