Storage Architect/Engineer
Rate: up to £530 per day - Umbrella only
Duration: 6 months
Location: Sheffield (with 3 days/week in office)
Role Description:
The Storage Architect/Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimising enterprise-grade storage, virtualisation, and data-platform solutions across hybrid environments. This role requires deep expertise in storage platforms, virtualisation, data-centre technologies, and migration strategy, with growing emphasis on cloud, automation, and container-based architectures.
You will work closely with cross-functional infrastructure, cloud, security, and DevOps teams to deliver resilient, scalable, and high-performance storage services for mission-critical workloads.
Key Responsibilities:
Storage Architecture & Engineering:
* Design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage solutions (SAN/NAS/Object) across multi-vendor ecosystems.
* Lead storage assessments, capacity planning, performance tuning, and life cycle management.
* Develop High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) for on-prem and hybrid storage systems.
* Own data-migration strategies and end-to-end execution (host-based, array-based replication, storage-to-storage, and cloud migration patterns).
* Deliver disaster recovery storage architecture, including replication, failover design, and runbooks (eg, SnapMirror, SRDF, RecoverPoint, etc.).
* Design and configure SAN fabrics, zoning, multipathing, and storage connectivity.
Essential Skills & Experience:
Storage & SAN:
Extensive experience across enterprise SAN/NAS platforms such as:
* NetApp (7-Mode, Clustered ONTAP)
* Dell EMC (VNX, VPLEX, Unity, VMAX, PowerMax)
* HPE 3PAR
* Brocade/Cisco SAN Switches (zoning, fabrics)
* Proven experience delivering complex storage migrations and DC transitions.
Qualifications:
* Relevant vendor certifications (NetApp NCDA/NCIE, VMware VCP, EMC/DELL, HPE).
* Azure certifications (AZ-104/AZ-305) or equivalent desirable.
* Kubernetes/OpenShift certifications (CKA/CKAD/Red Hat EX280) strongly preferred.
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!
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