Site Reliability Engineer, Senior – Backup Infrastructure

Overview

Who we are

Toyota does not offer support or sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this role now or in the future. You must have the right to work in the United States and not require Toyota support or sponsorship for immigration-related employment (e.g., H-1B, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, TN, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, ‘job flexibility benefits’ [also known as I-140 or Adjustment of Status portability], etc.) now or in the future. You should not apply for this role if you will require Toyota to assist with immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future.

Who we’re looking for

The Toyota Financial Services Technology Operations Center is looking for a passionate and highly motivated Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Backup Infrastructure. In this role, you will apply software engineering principles to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of enterprise backup infrastructure. You will play a key role in maintaining, modernizing, and automating backup ecosystems, ensuring that daily backups and restores meet defined Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).

What you’ll be doing

• • Manage and maintain enterprise backup infrastructure including AWS Backups, NetBackup, Cohesity, and native database backup solutions.
  • Ensure backup infrastructure is reliable and performant, with direct ownership of the reliability of daily backups and restores.
  • Build and maintain automation to improve backup and restore workflows, increase efficiency, and improve developer experience.
  • Design and implement observability and alerting in tools such as Dynatrace to proactively detect backup issues and failures.
  • Generate automated reports for auditing, compliance, and operational visibility.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues related to backup failures and implement durable fixes to improve reliability.
  • Participate in capacity planning, restore testing, disaster recovery, and business continuity exercises.
  • Define and manage SLIs/SLOs, health checks, and automated remediation processes for backup services.
  • Collaborate across infrastructure, engineering, and operations teams to ensure service reliability and operational readiness.
  • Support incident response, postmortems, and follow-up action items to reduce recurring issues.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and major incident restoration as needed.
    

What you bring

• • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, or related field.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience managing enterprise backup infrastructure in production environments, including AWS Backups, NetBackup, Cohesity, and native database backup solutions.
  • 5+ years of experience ensuring reliability, availability, and operational health of daily backups and restores.
  • 4+ years of experience with backup, restore, and recovery testing practices, including validation of RPO and RTO targets.
  • 3+ years of experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, CloudWatch, or equivalent platforms to configure alerting and health checks.
  • 3+ years of scripting proficiency in one or more of the following: Bash, Python, or PowerShell for automation and operational efficiency.
  • 3+ years of experience building automation for backup, restore, reporting, or operational workflows to reduce toil and improve efficiency.
  • 4+ years of strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills for identifying and resolving backup failures, restore issues, and operational gaps.
  • 3+ years of experience understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, observability, toil reduction, and incident response.
  • 3+ years of experience generating operational, compliance, and audit reports, with the ability to automate report creation and delivery.
  • 2+ years of working knowledge of database backup and restore operations for enterprise platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar systems.
  • 2+ years of experience with automation or configuration management frameworks such as Ansible or similar tooling.
  • 2+ years of experience documenting runbooks, standards, procedures, and recovery processes clearly for operational use.
    

Added bonus if you have

• • Experience with AWS, Linux, and Windows environments in production.
  • Familiarity with database backup and restore operations for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar platforms.
  • Exposure to incident management, problem management, and reliability engineering practices.
  • Certifications in AWS, backup technologies, or observability tools.

What we’ll bring 

During your interview process, our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities. A few highlights include: 

• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement
• Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount
• Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if applicable)
• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family
• Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute (if applicable)
• Paid holidays and paid time off
• Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools and more
• Tax Advantaged Accounts (Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA)
• Relocation assistance (if applicable)

Belonging at Toyota

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star.

Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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