Contractor - Storage Architect

Vivantify; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Growth opportunities

Collaborative culture

Challenging projects

Job summary

Vivantify in Pune is seeking an experienced Storage Architect to design, implement, and manage enterprise storage across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments.

You will lead creation of HLDs/LLDs, evaluate storage technologies, and drive migration and DR initiatives while collaborating with infrastructure, cloud, and security teams.

Strong expertise in SAN/NAS, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing enterprise storage architectures and developing architecture documents (HLDs/LLDs).
• Hands-on with major storage platforms and modernization projects.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise storage architectures for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Create HLDs, LLDs, architecture documents, and implementation plans.
• Evaluate storage technologies and platforms based on business requirements.
• Design SAN, NAS, object storage, replication, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Lead storage modernization, consolidation, migration, and transformation initiatives.
• Perform capacity planning, storage forecasting, performance analysis, and optimization.
• Define storage security, compliance, data protection, and governance standards.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, virtualization, database, and security teams.
• Conduct architecture reviews, risk assessments, and governance discussions.
• Support POCs, solution presentations, workshops, and customer engagements.
• Develop storage automation using PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Shell scripting.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering and support teams.

Skills

Storage Architecture

Solution Design

SAN/NAS Administration

Disaster Recovery

Capacity Planning

Performance Tuning

VMware/Virtualization

Security & Governance

Cloud Storage (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Tools

Dell EMC PowerMax

PowerStore

Unity

VMAX

NetApp ONTAP

HPE 3PAR/Primera

IBM Storage

NetBackup/Commvault/Veeam

PowerShell

Python

Ansible

Job description

Location: Pune

Experience: 7–11 Years

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Storage Architect with strong expertise in designing, implementing, and managing enterprise storage solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. The role focuses on Storage Architecture, SAN/NAS, disaster recovery, storage migration, capacity planning, and performance optimization, with experience across leading enterprise storage platforms.

Job Description

The role involves designing enterprise storage architectures and developing HLDs, LLDs, architecture documents, and implementation plans based on business requirements. The candidate will evaluate storage technologies, lead modernization and migration initiatives, and design SAN, NAS, object storage, replication, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.

The position requires collaboration with infrastructure, cloud, virtualization, database, and security teams to establish secure and scalable storage environments. The candidate will also support technical governance, POCs, customer discussions, automation, and provide technical leadership to engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop enterprise storage architectures for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Create HLDs, LLDs, architecture documents, and implementation plans.
• Evaluate and recommend storage technologies and platforms based on business requirements.
• Design SAN, NAS, object storage, replication, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Lead storage modernization, consolidation, migration, and transformation initiatives.
• Perform capacity planning, storage forecasting, performance analysis, and optimization.
• Define storage security, compliance, data protection, and governance standards.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, virtualization, database, and security teams.
• Conduct architecture reviews, risk assessments, and technical governance discussions.
• Support POCs, solution presentations, technical workshops, and customer engagements.
• Develop storage automation using PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Shell scripting.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering and support teams.

Required Skills

• Storage Architecture and Solution Design
• Dell EMC PowerMax, PowerStore, Unity, VMAX
• NetApp ONTAP
• HPE 3PAR / Primera
• IBM Storage
• SAN/NAS Administration
• Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, zoning, masking, and multipathing
• Storage replication and Disaster Recovery
• Enterprise storage migration
• Capacity planning and performance tuning
• VMware and virtualization platforms
• NetBackup, Commvault, or Veeam
• Cloud storage — AWS, Azure, GCP
• PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Shell scripting
• Storage security and data protection
• Architecture design and technical governance

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
• Customer-facing solution architecture and stakeholder management
• Certifications in 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 will have 5–8 years of experience in Storage Architecture and enterprise storage solution design, with hands‑on expertise across SAN/NAS, storage platforms, replication, disaster recovery, migration, and cloud storage. The candidate should have strong architecture, technical governance, capacity planning, and stakeholder management skills, along with experience leading enterprise storage initiatives.

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