Storage & Compute Architect

Job Title: Storage & Compute Architect

Type: Permanent

Location: Hybrid - 3 days p/week London

Rate: £700 - £850 p/day

TEC Partners are working with a world-leading technology client who are currently looking for a Storage & Compute Architect, ideally with experience in the financial services industry, to work on an upcoming, large-scale customer assignment. As a Storage & Compute Architect, you will support Infrastructure Services by maintaining a high level of technical expertise in Storage & Compute Architecture, supporting delivery teams and engineers in the deployment of Services, and serving as an escalation point for delivery engineers.

You will also be responsible for assisting with introducing new services, including developing and documenting deployment methodologies, and working with delivery teams to develop those capabilities in the field. This can include meeting with customers in a role that requires a deep understanding of server hardware, virtualisation technologies and storage solutions to ensure high availability and performance of IT Services.

Responsibilities:

• Translate business outcomes to technical solutions
• Review client deliverables to identify opportunities to improve quality through training, mentoring, product offering improvement, and talent acquisition
• Monitor infrastructure performance and troubleshoot problem areas as needed
• Conduct research on advanced and next-generation compute, storage, and networking infrastructure to remain abreast of developments in the industry
• System Design: Design and architect high-performance computing systems, including hardware, software, and networking components, to meet the organization's compute requirements
• Storage Design: Design and architect storage solutions to meet the organization's data storage and retrieval requirements, considering factors such as capacity, performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Storage Provisioning: Provision storage resources, including SAN, NAS, and object storage systems, to meet the data storage requirements of various applications and workloads.
• Pre Sales Support: working with Customers, Technical Solutions Architects, Client Services Execs and Account Teams to identify customer's desired business & technical outcomes.
• Create High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documentation.
• Create change/cut window Method of Procedure (MOP) documentation.
• Perform advanced engineering services supporting the engineering delivery team when necessary.
• Champion the delivery of complex Storage & Compute solutions
• Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfers, and mentorship as required.
• Responsible for creating documentation for Storage & Compute Technologies

Requirements:

• Expert in design, implementation, and management of physical and virtual environments including VMware, Hyper-V, KVM and Nutanix.
• Build and administer storage solutions, including direct attached, SAN, NAS, and cloud storage, ensuring data availability and integrity.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure efficient operation of compute and storage resources.
• Conduct capacity planning and provide recommendations for infrastructure enhancements.
• Design and implement advanced functions related to compute resources (servers, virtual machines, containers)
• Be proficient in storage systems including file, object storage, block and databases.
• Optimize data storage and retrieval mechanisms for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Drive architecture discussions related to cloud security, privacy, and compliance.
• Consider scalability, performance, agility, and high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR) aspects.
• Strong knowledge of server hardware, virtualisation platforms, and storage technologies.
• Experience with cloud computing services (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) is advantageous
• Proven track record of successfully managing and delivering complex IT projects on time and within budget, utilizing programmatic approaches, eg. Agile or Waterfall
• Highly Skilled in at least one (1) of the following with more being preferred: Nvidia GPU/DGX computing and/or other similar solutions, InfiniBand networking, Red Hat or other Linux distributions, infrastructure automation solutions.

This is just a snapshot of our client's requirement. Get in touch for a full job spec and details on the position.

We will be assisting our client in interviewing and appointing the best candidate ASAP. Apply without delay for consideration.