Storage Architect/Storage Engineer

Job Title:Storage Architect/Storage Engineer
Location: Sheffield, Birmingham
Salary/Rate: £555 Inside daily rate
Start Date: 20/04/2026
Job Type: Contracted for seven months

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our tier one banking clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Storage Architect/Storage Engineer to join their team for a seven -month contract.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

The Storage Architect/Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimising enterprise-grade storage, virtualisation, and data-platform solutions across hybrid environments. This role requires deep expertise in storage platforms, virtualisation, data-centre technologies, and migration strategy, with growing emphasis on cloud, automation, and container-based architectures.You will work closely with cross-functional infrastructure, cloud, security, and DevOps teams to deliver resilient, scalable, and high-performance storage services for mission-critical workloads.

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage solutions (SAN/NAS/Object) across multi-vendor ecosystems.
• Lead storage assessments, capacity planning, performance tuning, and life cycle management.
• Develop High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) for on-prem and hybrid storage systems.
• Own data-migration strategies and end-to-end execution (host-based, array-based replication, storage-to-storage, and cloud migration patterns).

Storage & SAN:

• Extensive experience across enterprise SAN/NAS platforms such as:
• NetApp (7-Mode, Clustered ONTAP)
• Dell EMC (VNX, VPLEX, Unity, VMAX, PowerMax)
• HPE 3PAR
• Brocade/Cisco SAN Switches (zoning, fabrics)
• Proven experience delivering complex storage migrations and DC transitions.

Virtualisation:

• Strong background in VMware vSphere/vCenter, ESXi clusters, resource scheduling, storage integration.
• Experience with VMware SRM/SRA.

Backup & DR:

• Experience with enterprise backup suites such as NetBackup, Veeam, EMC Networker, Data Domain, SnapVault/SnapMirror, etc.

Infrastructure Design:

• Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality HLD/LLD documentation.
• Experience leading large-scale migration projects (applications, workloads, storage, DC moves).

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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