Senior Architect - Storage and Data Protection

Senior Architect – Storage and Data Protection About Us

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The Senior Architect – Storage and Data Protection leads the architecture, design, and supports the implementation of storage and data protection solutions. The role ensures that storage platforms are scalable, resilient, cost-effective, and aligned with Cloud and HPC business requirements.

• Own and lead the end-to-end architecture and design of multi-petabyte-scale block, file, and object storage solutions for cloud environments, ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and compliance with industry standards and best practices.
• Define storage and data protection architecture standards, roadmaps, and service evolution across the organization’s platform portfolio.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Evaluate, select, and design storage and backup technologies, ensuring alignment with functional and non-functional requirements.
• Define and support disaster recovery strategies, including data integrity, availability, RPO/RTO and recovery validation across platforms.
• Support capacity planning, performance analysis, and lifecycle management for storage infrastructure.
• Conduct architecture reviews and configuration assessments to identify optimization, consolidation, and risk mitigation opportunities.
• Prepare, review, and approve HLDs, LLDs, SOWs, BoQs/BoMs, RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs, ensuring alignment with performance, scalability, security, and reliability requirements.
• Support procurement activities by preparing technical specifications, evaluating vendor proposals, and providing technology recommendations.
• Oversee deployment readiness, implementation quality, and acceptance testing against approved design documentation.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering teams.
• Contribute to process improvement, operational standards, and documentation practices to enhance service quality and stakeholder experience.
• Lead the design of observability and logging systems.

• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, international standards and related G42 Policies and Procedures.
• Comply with G42 Acceptable Use Policy, attend mandatory information security, privacy, business continuity and HSE trainings.
• Report information security, HSE etc. incidents or suspect incidents through G42 established incident reporting channels.
• Maintain confidentiality of information and classify and handle information as per G42 Policies and Procedures.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, software engineering or a related technology discipline.
• 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing storage solutions, including 5+ years with software-defined storage across block, file, and object storage systems.
• Expert-level knowledge of storage architecture, data protection strategies, and disaster recovery principles.
• Strong experience with storage protocols and interfaces such as iSCSI, S3, NFS, NVMe over TCP, and related technologies.
• Deep knowledge of storage platforms from vendors such as IBM, Net App, Dell EMC, Pure Storage, HPE, and VAST Data.
• Experience with object storage solutions such as Red Hat Ceph, MinIO, Scality, Cloudian, Qumulo S3, and Dell ECS is a significant advantage.
• Experience in designing and implementing geo-distributed and large-scale storage clusters.
• Strong understanding of encryption, hardening, security controls, and compliance requirements for storage and backup platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native backup and DR solutions for Open…