Expeditors International: Engineer III GT - Storage and Backup — Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

About Expeditors International

Expeditors International of Washington is a global logistics company. Its services include air and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, vendor consolidation, warehousing and related supply-chain work, delivered as a service-based provider that arranges transport through carriers rather than owning ships or aircraft. The company is headquartered in Seattle in the United States. Its employer feed covers sales and district operations roles across its regional offices.

The position and its setting

Expeditors International lists Engineer III GT - Storage and Backup in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, under reference REF21585O. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Global Technology
• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 5 October 2026
• Brands: Expeditors

Responsibilities and work described

• Position Summary
• The Engineer III is an experienced infrastructure engineer within Global Technology who designs, implements, automates, secures, and supports enterprise storage and data protection services
• The role combines deep technical ownership with engineering practices, moving beyond traditional administration toward platform reliability, cyber resilience, infrastructure as code, observability, and measurable business outcomes
• This engineer independently delivers solutions of significant size and complexity across storage, SAN, backup, recovery, and hybrid-cloud services
• The role contributes to architecture and technical decisions, supports globally distributed production environments, mentors' other engineers, and translates business requirements into scalable, recoverable, secure, and cost-effective capabilities

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Technical Depth and Delivery
• Design, implement, test, upgrade, and support enterprise block, file, object, SAN, and backup platforms across on-premises and hybrid-cloud environments
• Own complex engineering work from requirements and design through change implementation, validation, documentation, operational handover, and lifecycle support
• Configure and optimize storage provisioning, replication, snapshots, performance, tiering, deduplication, compression, retention, backup policies, and recovery workflows
• Diagnose cross-domain incidents involving arrays, fabrics, hosts, virtualization, databases, applications, backup media, network dependencies, and cloud services
• Perform peer reviews for scripts, automation, configurations, designs, recovery runbooks, and implementation plans; provide actionable technical feedback
• Participate in on-call support, major incident response, root-cause analysis, problem management, and corrective-action follow-through
• Architectural Scale
• Design solutions of significant size and complexity that meet availability, performance, security, compliance, capacity, RPO, and RTO requirements
• Contribute to architecture reviews, standards, reference patterns, lifecycle roadmaps, and technology-selection decisions for storage and data protection
• Evaluate dependencies, failure domains, replication topology, data locality, licensing, cost, operational supportability, and vendor lock-in when recommending solutions
• Engineer high availability, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and business-continuity capabilities, including isolated or immutable copies and repeatable recovery validation
• Plan and execute platform upgrades, migrations, refreshes, consolidations, decommissions, and data movement with controlled risk and rollback strategies
• Automation, Platform Engineering
• Build reusable automation using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, vendor SDKs, and orchestration tools such as Ansible or AWX
• Manage scripts, infrastructure definitions, configuration, and documentation through Git-based source control, peer review, branching, and versioning practices
• Integrate infrastructure automation with CI/CD workflows such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, including validation, approvals, secrets handling, and auditable deployment evidence
• Develop self-service workflows and policy-driven provisioning that reduce manual tickets, improve consistency, and enforces guardrails
• Apply secure engineering practices including least privilege, service-account governance, credential rotation, certificate lifecycle management, vulnerability remediation, and separation of duties
• Use AI-assisted engineering responsibly for analysis, code generation, documentation, and operational insights while validating outputs and protecting confidential data

Education and qualification routes

• Degree / qualification: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience

Experience and professional background

• First 12–18 Months Success Expectations
• 12 + years of relevant infrastructure engineering experience, including substantial hands-on responsibility for enterprise storage, SAN, backup, recovery, or data-resilience services

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Deep expertise in one or more of: Cohesity, Commvault, Hitachi Data Protection Suite, Dell PowerStore, Hitachi VSP/HNAS, Pure Storage, Brocade Fibre Channel, SANnav, tape, cyber vault, Azure Backup, AWS Backup, or comparable enterprise technologies
• Experience: hybrid-cloud data protection, Kubernetes/container protection, SaaS protection, object storage, cloud tiering, and cloud cost optimization
• Experience: observability platforms, ServiceNow, Power BI, capacity forecasting, event integration, CMDB/discovery, or enterprise reporting
• Experience: self-service infrastructure, policy as code, automated compliance evidence, recovery orchestration, AI-assisted operations, or autonomous remediation
• Working Relationships
• Internal Relationships
• Storage & Backup engineers
• Senior/Principal Engineers, Architects, Engineering Managers, Product and Program partners
• Security, Network, Compute, Cloud, Database, Application, Platform Engineering, Data Center, Service Management, Cybersecurity and Risk Management teams
• Business stakeholders and internal customers whose services depend on protected and available data
• External Relationships
• Technology vendors, support organizations, managed service providers, implementation partners, and consultants

Professional registration and licensing

• Coordinate with vendors and service providers on architecture, support cases, escalations, maintenance, licensing, roadmap discussions, and professional services
• Improve protection coverage, backup success, recovery confidence, media management, retention compliance, deduplication efficiency, throughput, and license utilization
• Deliver few measurable engineering improvements such as automation, upgrade, migration, recovery validation, capacity optimization, cyber-resilience enhancement, or license/cost optimization

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Work arrangement: On-site
• Advertised location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Expeditors International

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Relevant skills

• Python
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• AWS
• Azure
• REST APIs
• APIs
• AI/ML
• ISO
• Linux
• Git
• AI
• cybersecurity
• firmware