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 is responsible for delivering scalable, secure, highly available, and high‑performance storage solutions that support mission‑critical applications, virtualization, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.

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 based on business and application requirements.
• Design SAN, NAS, Object Storage, Fibre Channel, NVMe, iSCSI and IP storage architectures.
• Implement high availability, snapshots, replication, Metro/Global replication, backup, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Collaborate with server, virtualization, network, cybersecurity, database, backup and application teams throughout the project lifecycle.

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 prepare HLDs, LLDs, BOQs, RFPs and conduct technical evaluations.

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
• Storage sizing and capacity planning
• Performance analysis