Director - Storage Engineering

The Edge Partnership - The Edge in Asia; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

The Edge Partnership - The Edge in Asia is seeking a senior hands-on Storage Engineer to own architecture and roadmap for its global on-premise and cloud storage and backup platforms. You will drive a technology-forward strategy and collaborate with vendors, operations, and application teams to deliver scalable, secure storage solutions.

Ideal candidates have deep SAN/NAS/object storage expertise, strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Ansible, Terraform) and experience with AWS-native

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in enterprise storage engineering as your primary discipline.
• Deep expertise across SAN, NAS and object storage and storage protocols, with strong exposure to a major enterprise storage platform.
• Demonstrable automation capability — Python, Ansible, Terraform — and production-grade automation, plus dashboarding/visualisation.
• Cloud storage and backup experience on AWS native services; enterprise backup platform knowledge (e.g. NetBackup) an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the storage and backup engineering roadmap and strategy; evaluate new features, products and technologies for the global estate.
• Lead product evaluation, RFPs and platform migrations; perform POCs, benchmarking and data-driven recommendations.
• Own architecture and design of large-scale enterprise storage across on-prem and cloud, including DR and HA.
• Drive automation and DevOps across the platform — tooling, self-service provisioning, metrics gathering, dashboarding and reporting.
• Act as the engineering bridge between the managed-service vendor, operations and application teams, translating requirements into platform capabilities and governance.

Skills

Enterprise storage engineering

SAN

NAS

Object storage

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Automation

Cloud storage AWS

Disaster recovery

DevOps tooling

Tools

NetBackup

AWS services

Job description

Our client, a market leader in its sector, is seeking a senior hands-on Storage Engineer to own the engineering strategy, roadmap and architecture for its enterprise storage and backup platforms globally. This is a technical specialist leadership role — not a large team-management position — front-ending the storage platform and driving a growing on-premise and cloud estate. It offers the opportunity to shape a greenfield cloud storage and backup journey and put your mark on an evolving, high-impact environment.

Some of the key responsibilities will include:

• Define and drive the storage and backup engineering roadmap and strategy — evaluating new features, products and technologies for the global estate.
• Lead product evaluation, RFPs and platform migrations — POCs, benchmarking, scoring and data-driven recommendations across storage and backup vendors.
• Own architecture and design of large-scale enterprise storage — capacity, performance, high-availability and disaster recovery across on-premise and cloud.
• Drive automation and DevOps across the platform — tooling, self-service provisioning, metrics gathering, dashboarding and reporting.
• Act as the engineering bridge between the managed-service vendor, operations and application teams, translating requirements into platform capabilities and technical governance.

To be eligible for this role you will require:

• Extensive hands-on experience in enterprise storage engineering as your primary discipline — not storage as one part of a broader infrastructure remit.
• Deep expertise across SAN, NAS and object storage and storage protocols, with strong exposure to a major enterprise storage platform.
• Demonstrable automation capability — real scripting/programming (Python, Ansible, Terraform) and complex, production-grade automation, plus dashboarding and visualisation.
• A proven track record of architecture, design and product evaluation in large-scale environments, ideally within a managed-service model.
• Cloud storage and backup experience on AWS native services; enterprise backup platform knowledge (e.g. NetBackup and cloud backup) an advantage.

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