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The opportunity for a Senior Architect - Storage and Data Protection involves leading the architecture and design of storage and data protection solutions. This role ensures that storage platforms are scalable, resilient, cost-effective, and aligned with Cloud and HPC business requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and lead the end-to-end architecture and design of multi-petabyte-scale block, file, and object storage solutions for cloud environments, ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and compliance with industry standards and best practices.
- Define storage and data protection architecture standards, roadmaps, and service evolution across the organization’s platform portfolio.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Evaluate, select, and design storage and backup technologies, ensuring alignment with functional and non-functional requirements.
- Define and support disaster recovery strategies, including data integrity, availability, RPO/RTO, and recovery validation.
- Support capacity planning, performance analysis, and lifecycle management for storage infrastructure.
- Conduct architecture reviews and configuration assessments for optimization and risk mitigation.
- Prepare, review, and approve HLDs, LLDs, SOWs, BoQs/BoMs, RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs.
- Support procurement activities by preparing technical specifications and evaluating vendor proposals.
- Oversee deployment readiness and implementation quality.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams.
- Contribute to process improvement and documentation practices.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technology discipline.
- 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing storage solutions, including 5+ years with software-defined storage across block, file, and object storage systems.
- Expert-level knowledge of storage architecture, data protection strategies, and disaster recovery principles.
- Strong experience with storage protocols such as iSCSI, S3, NFS, and NVMe over TCP.
- Deep knowledge of storage platforms from vendors like IBM, NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage, HPE, and VAST Data.
- Experience with object storage solutions is a significant advantage.
- Solid knowledge of Linux systems administration and scripting using Bash, Python, or similar languages.
- Proven ability to produce high-quality technical documentation.
What We Offer
- Competitive Salary: Attractive salary package based on skills and experience.
- Yearly Bonus: Performance-based annual bonus.
- Exclusive Discount Cards: Access special benefits across various services.
- Premium Family Insurance: Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family.
- Learning & Development: Access to top-tier learning platforms for career growth.
Language Requirements:
Fluency in English is required; proficiency in additional languages is advantageous.
