Job Summary
Cobalt Iron Compass Engineering
L3 Engineer | JD COB-L3 | Positions 2
Experience 10-17 years | HCL Deutsche Bank account
HCL band 3.1 or 3.2 subject to discussion and final role mapping.
Role purpose
Own customer-side Compass engineering designs and complex remediation. Build supported integrations and recovery patterns, maintaining clear technical ownership across HCL, client and vendor responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
Key responsibilities
• Design workload protection, policy and recovery patterns within the deployed Compass service and agreed customer responsibilities.
• Engineer repeatable onboarding and integration workflows through supported interfaces, with validation, credential controls and audit evidence.
• Resolve complex protection/recovery issues across workloads, connectivity, identity and storage dependencies; implement customer-owned fixes.
• Define and execute recovery exercises against agreed objectives, evaluate results and close engineering gaps.
• Assess proposed changes with the vendor, validate supported service behavior and avoid unsupported modification of vendor-managed internals.
• Review code and technical designs, mentor engineers and lead technical delivery and problem resolution with Cobalt Iron support.
Skill Requirements
Essential skills and experience
• 10-17 years of relevant experience with strong enterprise protection/recovery design and hands-on Compass engineering.
• Deep understanding of Compass policy/workload behavior and the customer/vendor ownership model relevant to the deployed service.
• Demonstrated integration development, scripting, Git, test design and customer-side failure analysis.
• Evidence of personally implementing protection/recovery improvements and validating them through actual restore exercises.
Tools and technology expertise
• Core product: Cobalt Iron Compass, including the available Compass management/Commander interface and customer-owned policy/workload configuration.
• Protection expertise: client/workload connectivity, retention, recovery verification and customer-side Linux/Windows or storage dependencies.
• Automation: Python, Shell or PowerShell, Git and only interfaces/integration methods supported in the deployed Compass service.
Preferred expertise
• IBM Spectrum Protect/TSM only where relevant to the deployment; storage integration; ServiceNow/monitoring integration.
Expected engineering outputs
• A supported Compass integration or protection design with implemented automation.
• A validated recovery procedure and closure of a complex customer-owned engineering gap.
Own testing, approved implementation and validation. Follow access/change controls and protect credentials and production data.
Other Requirements
NA