Storage Lead

Job Title: Storage Lead

Job Summary

The Storage Lead is responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and optimizing enterprise storage systems to ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and data protection. This role provides technical leadership, mentors storage administrators, and works closely with infrastructure, cloud, security, and application teams to support business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise storage solutions (SAN, NAS, object storage, and cloud storage)

• Act as the primary escalation point for storage-related incidents and performance issues

• Ensure high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and data protection strategies are in place

• Monitor storage capacity, performance, and utilization; plan and execute capacity expansions

• Lead storage-related upgrades, migrations, and technology refresh initiatives

• Develop and maintain storage architecture standards, documentation, and best practices

• Collaborate with infrastructure, virtualization, cloud, security, and application teams

• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and task coordination for storage administrators

• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and audit requirements

• Evaluate and recommend new storage technologies and vendors

• Participate in on-call rotation and provide after-hours support when required

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise storage administration

• Strong expertise in SAN/NAS technologies (e.g., NetApp, Dell EMC, HPE, Pure, IBM, etc.)

• Experience with storage protocols (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB)

• Hands-on experience with backup and recovery solutions

• Knowledge of virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, etc.)

• Strong troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills

• Extensive Knowledge & Experience on Rubrik backup tool & administration
• Knowledge on NAS Migration from EMC to Pure using Komprise tool

• Experience leading projects or technical teams

• Excellent communication and documentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud storage platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

• Knowledge of object storage and software-defined storage

• Storage-related certifications (NetApp, Dell EMC, AWS, Azure, etc.)

• Experience with automation and scripting (PowerShell, Python, Ansible)

Soft Skills

• Leadership and mentoring abilities

• Strong problem-solving mindset

• Ability to work cross-functionally and manage multiple priorities

• Proactive and detail-oriented approach