Storage Senior SAN SME / Architect

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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