Senior Storage Architect - NetApp & Ceph

NTT Limited; Wallisellen; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking an experienced Storage Architect for NetApp and Ceph storage in the Winterthur region, Switzerland. You will design, govern, and optimize enterprise storage environments, ensuring performance, resilience, and data protection across virtualized, cloud, and containerized platforms.

You will lead storage initiatives, support escalations, and collaborate with compute, cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and security teams to align storage with the overall architecture.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and supporting enterprise storage environments.
• Strong expertise in NetApp ONTAP, NetApp AFF A-Series systems, and Ceph storage platforms.
• Deep understanding of storage architecture, data protection, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery concepts.
• Experience integrating enterprise storage solutions with virtualized, cloud, and containerized environments.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex storage and infrastructure issues.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and govern enterprise storage architectures based on NetApp and Ceph technologies.
• Provide expert guidance on storage performance, availability, scalability, and resilience.
• Architect and maintain data protection, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management strategies.
• Support CSI integrations and storage services for containerized and cloud-native platforms.
• Lead capacity planning, performance analysis, and storage optimization initiatives.
• Act as the escalation point for complex storage incidents and root cause investigations.
• Develop storage standards, operational procedures, and governance frameworks.
• Ensure storage platforms remain secure, supportable, and aligned with overall infrastructure architecture.
• Collaborate with compute, cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and security teams on end-to-end platform design.

Skills

NetApp ONTAP

NetApp AFF A-Series

Ceph

Storage architecture

Data protection/DR

Kubernetes

Performance tuning

Escalation management

Education

NCDA

NCIE for ONTAP

Red Hat Ceph Storage Admin

Tools

CSI integrations

Containerized/cloud environments

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking an experienced Storage Architect for NetApp and Ceph storage in the Winterthur region, Switzerland. You will design, govern, and optimize enterprise storage environments, ensuring performance, resilience, and data protection across virtualized, cloud, and containerized platforms.

You will lead storage initiatives, support escalations, and collaborate with compute, cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and security teams to align storage with the overall architecture.