Early Career: IT Infrastructure - Storage Engineer

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In this role you will:

Architecture & Strategy

- Define and own the enterprise storage architecture strategy, roadmap, and standards across SAN, NAS, Object Storage, and Software-Defined Storage platforms

- Lead the evaluation, selection, and adoption of emerging storage technologies

- Architect multi-site, globally distributed storage solutions with disaster recovery, business continuity, and high availability requirements

- Establish storage capacity planning models, performance benchmarking, and TCO analysis methodologies

- Drive storage infrastructure modernization initiatives and technology refresh cycles

Technical Leadership

- Design complex storage solutions for enterprise-scale deployments supporting diverse workloads including databases, virtualization, containerization, HPC, AI/ML, and big data analytics

- Lead architecture reviews, provide technical guidance, and make design decisions for critical storage projects

- Establish best practices, design patterns, and reference architectures for storage infrastructure

- Define SLAs, performance metrics, and operational KPIs for storage services

- Evaluate and architect storage automation, orchestration, and self-service capabilities using Infrastructure-as-Code principles

Technology Expertise

- Architect solutions leveraging:

- Enterprise SAN/NAS platforms (Hitachi, NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage)

- Object Storage systems (S3-compatible platforms including HCP, ECS, NetApp GRID)

- Software-Defined Storage and hyper-converged infrastructure

- Storage networking (FC, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, RDMA)

- Data protection technologies (snapshots, replication, backup/recovery)

- Storage virtualization and tiering strategies

- Architect data lifecycle management, retention policies, and compliance frameworks

Collaboration & Governance

- Partner with application teams, database administrators, virtualization team and infrastructure teams to understand requirements and design optimal solutions

- Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure storage solutions meet regulatory and data governance requirements

- Work with vendors on technology roadmaps, proof-of-concepts, and strategic partnerships

- Present architecture proposals and business cases to senior leadership and steering committees

- Mentor storage administrators and SREs, providing technical training and knowledge transfer

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

- Research emerging technologies including NVMe and AI-driven storage management

- Drive automation initiatives to reduce operational overhead and improve service delivery

- Establish performance optimization strategies and cost optimization frameworks

- Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and pilot programs for new storage technologies

Minimum Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related degree
• Experience: 3-5 years of experience in storage infrastructure with at least 3 years in architecture/design roles
• Proven track record of designing and implementing enterprise-scale storage solutions in large, complex environments

Preferred Qualifications:

- Deep expertise across multiple storage platforms and technologies

- Experience designing storage solutions supporting petabytes in production environments

- Proven success leading large-scale storage transformation and modernization programs

- Background in high-performance computing (HPC) storage or AI/ML data platform architectures

- Proficient in data protection strategies and storage management/monitoring tools

- Designs scalable, high-availability storage solutions including multi-site DR architectures with optimized RPO/RTO

- Experienced in capacity planning, storage tiering, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible)

-Solid understanding of virtualization, containerization (VMware, Kubernetes, OpenShift), and container storage (CSI drivers)

- Working knowledge of database storage needs, Linux/Windows OS, and scripting/automation (Bash, APIs, CI/CD)

- Communicates complex technical concepts clearly to executive audiences and cross-functional stakeholders

- Skilled at translating business needs into technical architecture and mentoring technical teams                     

- Strategic, innovative thinker with strong business acumen and a data-driven approach to problem-solving

- Certifications 

- Storage vendors(Hitachi Vantara, NetApp NCIE, Dell EMC, Pure Storage)

- Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)