Find below a sample job description template for the position of Storage Architect:

Company: _____________________

Job Title: Storage Architect

Location of the Job: Chicago, IL 60008

Job Type: Full Time Employee

Job Description:

The Senior Storage Architect will be responsible for ensuring that NetSpend’s critical storage systems are scalable for future growth.​ As a senior member of the Information Technology team, this position reports directly to the Director of IT Operations.​

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assure adequate storage for Oracle RAC/​ASM database servers
• The candidate will be required to publish various white papers and best practices resulting from their validation efforts.
• Candidate must be able to transfer the storage architecture requirements into a solution configuration that will be installed and configured.
• Responsible for the designing, testing, building, monitoring, and administration of all NetSpend Information Technology storage systems.​
• Perform capacity planning for production, data warehouse, reporting, and other systems to include storage, memory, CPU, and load
• Candidate must be versatile, long-term visionary, a team-player, and enjoys working with new technologies in a fast-paced technology environment.
• Candidate must also take the architecture requirements and be able to plan and develop a validation strategy and schedule for testing the solution before releasing to production.

Position Requirements:

• 3+​ years experience designing, implementing and managing virtual storage environments; hands on experience with Hitachi USPV or HP XP
• Strong track record in using and configuring Solaris, Redhat Linux, clustering software applications and scalable storage clusters, including tiered storage solutions (disk-to-disk-tape).
• 5+​ years experience in Systems and/​or Network Administration
• 5+​ years experience in capacity planning systems and storage in a “real-time” or near “real-time” environment
• Strong leadership abilities and team-oriented, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• 5+​ years experience in administering, troubleshooting, and supporting EMC DMX/​CX class storage systems and ECC

Salary: $95,000 – $120,000/ Annually

Contact Information:

[Contact Person]

Phone: ______________________

Fax: ________________________

E-mail: ______________________