Job Posting Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Position Objective:
Design, architect, and govern enterprise storage infrastructure based on Dell and NetApp technologies. Responsible for delivering scalable, secure, highly available, and high-performance storage solutions supporting mission-critical applications, virtualization, cloud platforms, Kubernetes/OpenShift, backup & disaster recovery initiatives
Job Description & Responsibilities:
- Design end-to-end enterprise storage solutions using Dell PowerMax, PowerStore, Unity XT, ECS, and NetApp AFF, FAS, and ONTAP platforms.
- Develop High-Level Designs (HLD), Low-Level Designs (LLD), implementation plans, migration strategies, and technical documentation.
- Perform storage sizing, capacity planning, forecasting, and performance analysis based on business and application requirements.
- Design SAN, NAS, Object Storage, Fibre Channel, NVMe, iSCSI, and IP storage architectures.
- Design storage solutions for VMware, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and cloud environments using CSI integration.
- Implement high availability, snapshots, replication, Metro/Global replication, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
- Evaluate and validate Dell and NetApp solutions, ensuring compliance with security, governance, and business requirements.
- Prepare and review RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, BOQs, technical specifications, and vendor proposals.
- Support technology refresh, storage modernization, and data migration initiatives with minimal business disruption.
- Optimize storage utilization, performance, automation, and lifecycle management.
- Collaborate with server, virtualization, network, cybersecurity, database, backup, and application teams.
- Perform Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and recommend new technologies and best practices.
- Provide technical governance throughout the project lifecycle and ensure adherence to enterprise architecture standards.
- Support root cause analysis for complex storage issues and define preventive improvements.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Minimum 5 years of enterprise storage design experience.
- Hands-on experience with Dell PowerMax, PowerStore, Unity XT, ECS, and NetApp ONTAP, AFF, and FAS.
- Strong knowledge of SAN, NAS, Object Storage, Fibre Channel, NVMe, iSCSI, snapshots, replication, and storage networking.
- Experience with VMware vSphere, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes CSI, and Linux environments.
- Experience preparing HLDs, LLDs, BOQs, RFPs, and technical evaluations.
- Excellent analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.
