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# Senior Technical Consultant - Data Protection at AHEAD

- **Company:** AHEAD
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $130k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead/28b514e4-6101-4e38-aa0c-7aa754aa870a

## Job description

AHEAD is seeking a Senior Technical Consultant to lead the implementation, modernization, and optimization of enterprise Data Protection environments. This customer-facing, delivery-focused role is responsible for translating business and technical requirements into scalable, resilient Data Protection solutions while executing complex infrastructure projects and serving as a trusted advisor to clients and internal stakeholders. The ideal candidate possesses deep hands-on expertise across Data Protection platforms, cloud technologies, ransomware protection and recovery, troubleshooting, and infrastructure modernization. Success in this role requires strong technical leadership, documentation skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional delivery teams to drive successful project outcomes. This position includes travel to customer sites to support deployment, migration, and modernization initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

- Advanced configuration and architectural design of backup platforms to optimize data protection.
- Expert-level Cohesity experience including DataProtect, Threat Protection, FortKnox, Cohesity Security Center & Helios.
- Expert-level proficiency in multiple backup platforms, such as Commvault, Rubrik, and ransomware protection systems.
- Deploy data center and cloud technologies including but not limited to Cohesity, Rubrik, Commvault, and related platforms.
- Expert in backup configuration for multiple hypervisors (VMware, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V), cloud (AWS, Azure), databases (SQL/Oracle), and OS platforms (Windows/Linux)
- Comprehensive knowledge of disaster recovery planning, orchestration, and execution of testing protocols.
- Advanced understanding of networking and infrastructure fundamentals, including firewalls, ACLs, VLANs, port trunking, DNS, NTP, routing, and related protocols required to support secure, resilient, and high-performing data protection environments.
- Lead efforts in performance tuning and capacity management to maintain optimal backup infrastructure operations.
- Proficient in disaster recovery strategy development, orchestration, and validation through rigorous testing.
- Develop technical documentation including solution designs, implementation plans, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer materials.
- Act as a technical point of contact during delivery engagements, status meetings, cutovers, and escalation events.
- Collaborate with project managers, architects, account teams, and customer stakeholders to align scope, timeline, and technical outcomes.
- Provide post-implementation knowledge transfer, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement recommendations.
- Contribute to delivery consistency, technical quality, and customer satisfaction while supporting junior team members as needed.
- Maintain awareness of emerging Data Protection, cloud, and infrastructure trends and recommend practical improvements to delivery methods and client environments.

Required Qualifications:

- Hands-on experience in enterprise Data Protection infrastructure delivery roles, ideally within consulting, professional services delivery, or complex customer environments.
- Strong experience with major Data Protection platforms including Cohesity, Commvault, Rubrik, and comparable enterprise technologies.
- Experience with SAN implementation and interoperability analysis.
- Experience with integration of supporting Data Protection solutions across major cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex Data Protection and connectivity issues across multi-site environments, cloud platforms, firewalls, hosts, and supporting infrastructure ecosystems.
- Strong communication and documentation skills, including the ability to explain risks and recommendations to both technical and business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently in client-facing delivery environments.
- Understanding of, AI, VMWare, Linux, Unix, and Windows OS.
- Strong presentation, diagramming, whiteboarding, and storytelling skills.
- Expert in racking, stacking, and cabling hardware.

Willing to Travel up to 50%.

Success Profile:

- Takes ownership of assigned technical workstreams and contributes as a trusted member of the Data Protection Delivery Team.
- Delivers high-quality work with strong attention to execution, risk management, and customer outcomes.
- Build credibility quickly with customer teams and internal delivery, architecture, and sales stakeholders.
- Balances deep technical execution with customer service, communication, and business awareness.
- Must have the mindset to continually evolve technical skills to grow capabilities and expand knowledge.
- Must obtain required Data Protection certifications that are business relevant to the Practice for further development and for Practice success.

Work Environment:

This role is in the Data Protection Delivery Practice and is expected to support project-based delivery of new datacenter and cloud technologies, upgrades, and system moves. Includes after-hours and weekend work and travel when required by client engagements.

## About AHEAD

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AHEAD is an engineering-led digital platform company that accelerates enterprise strategy into execution across AI, cloud, data, security, and infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/PE-backed; no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Dan Adamany (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: IT Services & Consulting, Digital Transformation, Managed Services
- **Target customers**: Fortune 1000 enterprises, large-scale organizations with complex, multi-domain IT estates (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To accelerate strategy into execution, engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security — building what others only blueprint.

## Products & Services
- **AI Transformation**: A unified AI fabric to accelerate AI from idea to business value, including AI-enabled infrastructure and data readiness. *(Service)*
- **AI Enabled Infrastructure**: Scalable, resilient architectures supporting high-performance workloads from core to edge. *(Service)*
- **Data Platform Modernization**: Governed data platforms that turn raw data into trustworthy insight and AI readiness. *(Service)*
- **Secure and Resilient Architectures**: Platforms designed to reduce risk, limit impact, and recover quickly. *(Service)*
- **Platform and Workload Modernization**: Modernizing platforms and optimizing workloads across cloud, data center, and edge. *(Service)*
- **Operational Excellence**: Frictionless operations, predictable performance, and optimized spend. *(Service)*
- **Managed Services**: Ongoing management of critical systems over their entire lifecycle. *(Service)*
- **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Accelerators, financial models, scorecards, integration-ready code, and policy-as-code. *(Software/Tooling)*
- **400+ APIs & Custom Offerings**: Frameworks that integrate multiple platforms for automation, data sandboxes, and ML/AI exploration. *(Platform)*

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company)
- **Key Metric**: **Gross Revenue** of **$3.7 billion** (as of 2024, following the acquisition of CDI); **2,500+ employees** across 40 locations globally.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners with **200+ technology providers** (e.g., major cloud, data center, security, and automation vendors). The company is backed by private equity (likely a growth/PE structure, though specific investors are not named in the provided materials).
- **Growth Signals**: Scaled from a Midwest focus to national and international coverage through **12 acquisitions since 2019**; expanded service portfolio into data, app dev, custom manufacturing, and global logistics via M&A; recent acquisition of CDI (New York-based) added significant scale.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Orchestration Expertise**: Ability to stitch together complex, multi-vendor systems into cohesive, scalable architectures — a differentiator in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape.
- **Full-Stack Engineering**: Deep expertise across AI, cloud, data, security, infrastructure, and operations, applied in an integrated fashion.
- **Unified Delivery Model**: One team, one roadmap, one owner held accountable for driving outcomes, from strategy through implementation and ongoing operations.
- **Consultative Approach**: Engages early to architect transformation roadmaps, not just as a reseller of hardware/software.
- **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Unique accelerators and code libraries that de-risk and speed up client digital initiatives.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Accelerating enterprise AI adoption; expanding managed services; deepening capabilities in data, security, and cloud; continuing M&A strategy to add geographic coverage and new service lines.
- **Direction for growth**: Becoming the go-to strategic partner for Fortune 1000 leaders navigating the complexity of modern IT, with a focus on accountability from design to operations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Engineering-led organization with a strong emphasis on technical depth, ownership, and accountability. Described as a "game-changer in tech" that values innovation and execution.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Likely hybrid/office-based given the nature of client-facing consulting and infrastructure work; 40 global locations suggest flexibility in location.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies across AI, cloud, security, and data at massive scale; exposure to Fortune 1000 clients and complex transformations; strong focus on IP development and engineering excellence; clear growth trajectory through acquisitions and expansion.

## Sources
1. [AHEAD Official Website](https://www.ahead.com/)
2. [AHEAD Story Page](https://www.ahead.com/story/)
3. [AHEAD Leadership Page](https://www.ahead.com/leadership/)
4. [AHEAD Careers Page](https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead)

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