Data Storage Solutions Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise storage architectures across SAN, NAS, object storage, and cloud storage platforms.
• Develop scalable storage strategies to support business growth, application modernization, and data-intensive workloads.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of storage technologies and vendors.
• Architect solutions for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and data retention.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, security, database, and application teams to ensure storage solutions meet business and technical requirements.
• Optimize storage performance, capacity utilization, and cost efficiency.
• Define storage standards, governance policies, and operational procedures.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and industry regulations.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and administrators.
• Create architecture documentation, roadmaps, and technical designs.
• Troubleshoot complex storage-related issues and recommend long-term solutions.
• Stay current on emerging storage technologies, cloud services, and industry best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience in enterprise storage administration, infrastructure architecture, or systems engineering.
• 3+ years of experience designing enterprise storage solutions.
• Knowledge of HyperConverged storage platforms including: Nutanix Unified Storage, VMware VSAN, Microsoft Azure Local Storage, SAN technologies (Fibre Channel RoCE, iSCSI), NAS platforms OnTAP(tm), Object storage solutions, Data replication and disaster recovery, Backup and recovery technologies.
• Experience with cloud storage services such as: Microsoft Azure Storage, AWS S3, EBS, Google Cloud Storage.
• Experience with virtualization platforms including VMware and Hyper-V.
• Understanding of storage security, encryption, and compliance requirements.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, or similar enterprise storage platforms.
• Cloud certifications (Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Architect).
• Storage-related certifications such as NetApp NCDA/NCIE, Dell EMC Proven Professional, or VMware certifications.
• Experience supporting AI, analytics, big data, or high-performance computing environments.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and automation practices.
• Ability to travel to customers/partners across the United States.
• Demonstrated expertise in architecting and designing enterprise-scale Software Defined Storage solutions, including distributed file, block, and object storage platforms, to support AI, HPC, cloud-native workloads.