Storage Design Engineer

About the role

The Storage Design Engineer will design, architect, and govern enterprise storage infrastructure based on Dell and NetApp technologies. The role ensures delivery of scalable, secure, highly available, and high‑performance storage solutions for mission‑critical applications, virtualization, cloud platforms, and disaster‑recovery initiatives.

Key responsibilities

• Design end‑to‑end storage solutions using Dell PowerMax, PowerStore, Unity XT, ECS and NetApp AFF, FAS, ONTAP platforms.
• Create High‑Level Designs (HLD), Low‑Level Designs (LLD), implementation plans, migration strategies and technical documentation.
• Perform storage sizing, capacity planning, forecasting and performance analysis.
• Design SAN, NAS, Object Storage, Fibre Channel, NVMe, iSCSI and IP storage architectures.
• Integrate storage with VMware, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes (CSI) and cloud environments.
• Implement high availability, snapshots, replication, Metro/Global replication, backup and disaster‑recovery solutions.
• Evaluate Dell and NetApp solutions for security, governance and business compliance.
• Support technology refresh, storage modernization and data migration with minimal disruption.
• Collaborate with server, virtualization, network, cybersecurity, database, backup and application teams.
• Conduct PoCs, recommend new technologies and provide technical governance throughout project lifecycles.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of enterprise storage design experience.
• Hands‑on experience with Dell PowerMax, PowerStore, Unity XT, ECS and NetApp ONTAP, AFF, FAS.
• Strong knowledge of SAN, NAS, Object Storage, Fibre Channel, NVMe, iSCSI, snapshots and replication.
• Experience with VMware vSphere, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes CSI and Linux environments.
• Proven ability to produce HLDs, LLDs, BOQs, RFPs and technical evaluations.
• Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder‑management skills.

Required skills

• Dell PowerMax
• Dell PowerStore
• Dell Unity XT
• Dell ECS
• NetApp AFF
• NetApp FAS
• NetApp ONTAP
• SAN
• NAS
• Object Storage
• Fibre Channel
• NVMe
• iSCSI
• VMware vSphere
• Red Hat OpenShift
• Kubernetes CSI
• Linux
• Capacity planning
• Performance analysis
• Storage sizing
• Snapshots
• Replication (including Metro/Global)
• Backup
• Disaster recovery