Storage Architect

The Storage Architect will work in the Solutions Planning & Engineering group and will be responsible for overall technical strategy development, solution architecture of SAN, NAS, HPC Storage, and backup technologies. The selected candidate will be a technical expert with broad experience capable of translating business objectives to technology solutions. In addition, the Storage Architect will deliver architecture specifications, assist with functional specifications, and collaborate on technical designs and specifications for IT projects and initiatives.  Architect the next generation storage and backup solution working closely with various architects and engineers

The Storage Architect will be working in a multi-PB environment making up mission critical systems and must provide demonstrated enterprise experience in architecting/engineering solutions in such an environment. The role will be filled by a candidate who can demonstrate experience including the development of strategy, creating roadmaps, documenting storage platform trends and applications, and leveraging overall technical architecture knowledge across multiple industries

·         Identify business objectives and define technology solutions

·         Creating technical documentation - roadmaps, presentations, cost models, etc

·         Work closely with customers and Engineering on new technology introductions

·         Ability to market & sell decisions with senior leaders and other stakeholders

·         Ability to work in both self-directed as an individual contributor and matrix team environments

·         Function from a holistic view across the Enterprise of technical needs and available technical capabilities

·         Identify potential technology partners

·         Work with technology partners to develop  high value , mission critical solutions

·         Must have proven experience (+3 years as storage architect)

·         Architecture and best practices

·         Advanced problem solving skills

·         Excellent multi-medium communications skills (verbal, written, presentation, etc.)

·         Strong networking skills, strong facilitation skills

·         Design and implementation of various SAN and NAS solutions

·         Multi-vendor and multi-organization storage architectural design experience - SAN technologies: EMC SAN and NAS products and technologies including EMC Symmetrix, Celerra, Clarion, Enterprise Control Center (ECC), Netapp, Blue-Arc, Isilon NAS products, Exadata)

·         Storage consolidation and virtualization

·         Advanced understanding of storage & backup architecture

·         Design of IP SAN solutions for heterogeneous operating systems

·         Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

·         HPC storage solutions

·         Conducting hands on training, present brown bags and mentor data management staff related to storage

·         Availability: Clustering and Hot-site replication

·         Brocade and Cisco SAN Switches