Location: Pune

Experience: 7–11 Years

About The Role We are seeking an experienced Storage Architect to design and implement enterprise storage solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. The role requires strong expertise in SAN/NAS, storage architecture, disaster recovery, storage migration, capacity planning, and performance optimization . The candidate will collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, virtualization, database, and security teams to deliver scalable and secure storage solutions.

The Storage Architect will be responsible for developing enterprise storage architectures, creating HLDs, LLDs, architecture documentation, and implementation plans. The role involves evaluating storage technologies and designing solutions covering SAN, NAS, object storage, replication, backup, and disaster recovery.

The position will also support storage modernization, consolidation, migration, capacity forecasting, performance tuning, security, compliance, and data governance initiatives. The candidate will contribute to POCs, technical workshops, architecture reviews, customer discussions, and automation of storage operations using scripting and automation tools.

Key Responsibilities

- Design enterprise storage solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
- Develop HLDs, LLDs, architecture documents, and implementation plans.
- Design SAN, NAS, object storage, replication, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Lead storage migration, modernization, consolidation, and transformation initiatives.
- Perform capacity planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and optimization.
- Define storage security, data protection, compliance, and governance standards.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, virtualization, database, and security teams.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, architecture reviews, POCs,



and customer-facing technical support.

Required Skills

- Robust expertise in Storage Architecture and Solution Design.
- Enterprise storage platforms: Dell EMC PowerMax, PowerStore, Unity, VMAX; NetApp ONTAP; HPE 3PAR/Primera; IBM Storage.
- Strong knowledge of SAN/NAS, Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, zoning, masking, and multipathing.
- Experience with storage replication, disaster recovery, and large-scale storage migrations.
- Expertise in capacity planning, performance analysis, and optimization.
- Experience with VMware and virtualization platforms.
- Knowledge of backup solutions such as NetBackup, Commvault, or Veeam.
- Understanding of cloud storage services across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Scripting and automation using PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Shell scripting.

Preferred / Good To Have

- Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud Storage Architecture.
- Storage Security and Data Governance.
- ITIL and Service Management processes.
- Infrastructure Transformation and Modernization projects.
- Customer-facing solution architecture and stakeholder management.
- Certifications related to Dell EMC, NetApp, IBM, HPE, Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Mandatory Skills
- Architecture Patterns and Styles
- GCP Storage
- Migration Planning
- TCO Evaluation

Candidate Profile The ideal candidate should have strong enterprise storage architecture and solution design experience, with hands-on knowledge of SAN/NAS platforms, storage migration, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud storage. The candidate should be comfortable working across infrastructure teams, leading technical discussions, and providing architecture guidance in large enterprise environments.

Benefits Package

- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- A collaborative and inclusive work environment
- The opportunity to work on exciting and challenging projects with leading clients

📌 Contractor - Storage Architect (Pune)
🏢 Vivantify Technology Solutions India
📍 Pune