Senior Storage & Data Protection Architect — Scalable Cloud, DR

Core42; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Yearly Bonus

Exclusive Discount Cards

Premium Family Insurance

Learning & Development

Job summary

Core42 invites a Senior Architect – Storage and Data Protection to lead end-to-end architecture for multi-petabyte storage in cloud environments. You will shape standards, collaborate cross-functionally, evaluate backup technologies, and drive DR strategies across platforms.

Applicants should have 10+ years of storage design experience, including 5+ years in software-defined storage, with strong Linux scripting and security fundamentals. UAE-based, on-site role with competitive package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, software engineering or a related technology discipline.
• 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing storage solutions, including 5+ years with software-defined storage across block, file, and object storage systems.
• Expert-level knowledge of storage architecture, data protection strategies, and disaster recovery principles.
• Strong experience with storage protocols and interfaces such as iSCSI, S3, NFS, NVMe over TCP, and related technologies.
• Deep knowledge of storage platforms from vendors such as IBM, NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage, HPE, and VAST Data.
• Experience with object storage solutions such as Red Hat Ceph, MinIO, Scality, Cloudian, Qumulo S3, and Dell ECS is a significant advantage.
• Experience in designing and implementing geo-distributed and large-scale storage clusters.
• Strong understanding of encryption, hardening, security controls, and compliance requirements for storage and backup platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native backup and DR solutions for OpenStack (e.g. Trilio, Hystax, Rubrik, Zerto) is highly desirable.
• Solid knowledge of Linux systems administration and scripting using Bash, Python, or similar languages.
• Understanding of modern API concepts and standards, including HTTP, REST, Swagger/OpenAPI, and gRPC.
• Experience with identity and access management concepts such as PKI, LDAP, OAuth, OpenID Connect.
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF or Zachman is an advantage.
• Ability to produce high-quality technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, operational procedures, and standards.
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale infrastructure or cloud platform projects.
• Basic knowledge of ITSM frameworks such as ITIL.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Relevant certifications in storage technologies, cloud platforms, and data protection are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the end-to-end architecture and design of multi-petabyte-scale storage solutions for cloud environments, ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and compliance with industry standards and best practices.
• Define storage and data protection architecture standards, roadmaps, and service evolution across the organization’s platform portfolio.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Evaluate, select, and design storage and backup technologies, ensuring alignment with functional and non-functional requirements.
• Define and support disaster recovery strategies, including data integrity, availability, RPO/RTO and recovery validation across platforms.
• Support capacity planning, performance analysis, and lifecycle management for storage infrastructure.
• Conduct architecture reviews and configuration assessments to identify optimization, consolidation, and risk mitigation opportunities.
• Prepare, review, and approve HLDs, LLDs, SOWs, BoQs/BoMs, RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs, ensuring alignment with performance, scalability, security, and reliability requirements.
• Support procurement activities by preparing technical specifications, evaluating vendor proposals, and providing technology recommendations.
• Oversee deployment readiness, implementation quality, and acceptance testing against approved design documentation.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering teams.
• Contribute to process improvement, operational standards, and documentation practices to enhance service quality and stakeholder experience.
• Lead the design of observability and logging systems.

Skills

Storage architecture

Disaster recovery

Linux administration

Bash/Python scripting

iSCSI/NFS/S3 experience

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS or related field

Tools

Ceph/MinIO/Scality

Trilio/Hystax/Rubrik/Zerto

OpenStack backup tooling

Job description

Core42 invites a Senior Architect – Storage and Data Protection to lead end-to-end architecture for multi-petabyte storage in cloud environments. You will shape standards, collaborate cross-functionally, evaluate backup technologies, and drive DR strategies across platforms.

Applicants should have 10+ years of storage design experience, including 5+ years in software-defined storage, with strong Linux scripting and security fundamentals. UAE-based, on-site role with competitive package.