Storage Senior SAN SME / Architect
Location: Hybrid - 3 days in Sheffield
Duration: 30/11/2026
Rate to SSC: £579
MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the end‑to‑end design of enterprise storage solutions, from requirements gathering through to high‑level and low‑level designs.
* Act as a technical authority in architecture discussions, confidently explaining design choices, limitations, and alternatives.
* Define target‑state storage architectures aligned to application, platform, performance, availability, scalability, and resilience requirements.
* Produce clear architecture documentation, including HLDs, LLDs, and design rationales.
Storage Technology Domains
* Design and advise on block, file, and object storage solutions, including suitability for different workload types.
* Contribute to architecture decisions around backup, replication, disaster recovery, and data protection strategies.
* Demonstrate awareness of how different storage paradigms integrate with compute, virtualisation, and container platforms.
While expertise across all storage domains is desirable, strong depth in a subset is acceptable, provided the candidate can demonstrate a sound architectural‑level understanding of other storage technologies.
Vendor & Platform Integration
* Design storage solutions integrating with platforms such as VMware (vSphere, vCenter).
* Design solutions using enterprise SAN and NAS platforms (e.g. Pure Storage, Dell, NetApp, HPE or equivalent).
* Evaluate storage platform capabilities and limitations to ensure architectural fit.
Architecture Assurance & Best Practices
* Ensure architectures align with industry best practice for high availability, performance, security, scalability, and operational supportability.
* Review and challenge existing designs, identifying risks, improvements, and optimisation opportunities.
Required Skills & Experience
* Proven experience in a Storage Architect or senior storage engineering role with strong design responsibility.
* Demonstrated confidence answering storage solution design and architecture questions.
* Strong knowledge of SAN and enterprise storage technologies.
* In‑depth experience in at least one of the following areas: block, file, object storage, or backup/data protection.
* High‑level architectural understanding of storage domains beyond direct hands‑on experience.
* Experience producing architecture documentation and presenting designs.
* Strong problem‑solving and communication skills.
Desirable / Nice to Have
* Experience designing storage for virtualised and container platforms (e.g. OpenShift, Kubernetes).
* Exposure to hybrid or multi‑platform storage designs.
* Storage or architecture‑related vendor certifications
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