Job DescriptionOn behalf of our client, Affinity is seeking a Solution Architect with deep Commvault expertise to lead enterprise data protection and recovery initiatives. This role combines strategic advisory services, solution architecture, and hands‑on technical leadership, requiring an individual who can engage executive stakeholders on long‑term data protection strategy while also supporting the design, implementation, and optimization of complex Commvault environments. The successful candidate will drive modernization, cyber resilience, and recovery programs across large‑scale enterprise infrastructures in regulated environments.Job DescriptionOn behalf of our client, Affinity is seeking a Solution Architect with deep Commvault expertise to lead enterprise data protection and recovery initiatives. This role combines strategic advisory services, solution architecture, and hands‑on technical leadership, requiring an individual who can engage executive stakeholders on long‑term data protection strategy while also supporting the design, implementation, and optimization of complex Commvault environments. The successful candidate will drive modernization, cyber resilience, and recovery programs across large‑scale enterprise infrastructures in regulated environments.ResponsibilitiesLead discovery and current‑state assessments of enterprise backup, recovery, and data protection estatesBuild and present roadmaps that connect data protection to business outcomes — RTO/RPO targets, cyber resilience, cost,



and audit postureAdvise executive and director‑level stakeholders on modernization: on‑prem to hybrid, air‑gapped and immutable copies, ransomware recovery readinessRun workshops, whiteboard sessions, and executive briefings; be credible with both the storage team and the CIODevelop reusable reference architectures, standards, and internal practice assetsRepresent the practice in pre‑sales and solutioning conversations where requiredDesign end‑to‑end Commvault architectures at enterprise scale: Comm Serve, Media Agents, index and deduplication design, storage tiering, and client distributionSize and capacity‑plan across multi‑site, multi‑petabyte environmentsDesign protection for mixed estates — VMware, Hyper‑V, physical, SQL, Oracle, SAP, Exchange, Share Point, file, NAS, and container workloadsArchitect cloud and hybrid data protection (Azure, AWS, GCP), including Metallic / Commvault Cloud where applicableDesign cyber resilience and clean‑room recovery patterns: immutability, air gap, anomaly detection, isolated recovery environmentsProduce HLDs, LLDs, migration plans, and runbooks that other engineers can actually executeDesign DR strategy and lead recovery testing methodologyLead and hands‑on support build, migration, and cutover activityConfigure storage policies, plans, schedules, retention, auxiliary copies, and reportingMigrate from legacy platforms (Net Backup, Veeam, TSM/Spectrum Protect, Rubrik, Networker) onto CommvaultOwn complex escalations and performance tuning that the delivery team can’t resolveMentor engineers and

📌 Solution Architect, Commvault (Toronto)
🏢 Affinity
📍 Toronto