Description

Key Responsibilities

• Understand  the architecture, design, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise storage and data protection solutions.
• Develop and maintain storage blueprints, reference architectures, technology standards, strategic roadmaps, and lifecycle strategies.
• Design future-state storage and data protection architectures and transition plans.
• Provide architecture governance and technical design reviews for strategic infrastructure projects.
• Evaluate emerging storage technologies, vendor roadmaps, and market trends to identify innovation opportunities.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Technical Product Managers, Vendor Managers, and technology partners on product strategy and adoption.
• Support capacity planning, scalability, performance architecture, data protection, cyber resiliency, and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Define architecture and provide solution options to address complex technical challenges.
• Lead architecture discussions, proof-of-concepts, and technical experiments.
• Perform design and code reviews to ensure security, performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability requirements are met.
• Provide technical guidance and educate engineering teams on storage best practices and standardization.
• Present architecture recommendations to senior leadership, engineering teams, risk organizations, and project stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of experience in enterprise storage engineering/architecture.

• Strong experience with Pure Storage FlashArray block storage.
• Strong experience with Rubrik r6000 series data protection solutions.

Experience with Brocade G-Series fabric switches.

Experience with block storage technologies such as Dell or Hitachi.

Experience with file storage such as NetApp or Dell EMC Unity.

• Experience engineering and operating hybrid cloud environments, including data coherency between on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Strong scripting experience with PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience with testing, SDLC practices, and product engineering.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Familiarity with VMware ESXi/ESX hypervisors.
• Strong understanding of enterprise storage architecture, resiliency, scalability, and disaster recovery

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree