Head of Storage recruitment

Storage Engineering provides data retention, access and archiving technologies in data centers. This role covers the following technologies:

• Storage Area Networks

• SAN Storage

• Regulatory storage

• Storage De-duplication

• Archiving

• Storage cloud/self service automation

• Data availability

• Network Attached Storage

• Solid State Disk

• Storage Management

• Storage Reporting

• Thin Provisioning

• Backup and Restore

• Server Indexing

Key vendor technologies are from EMC (SAN), NetApp (NAS), IBM (SAN Backup), Cisco (Storage Networks), Brocade (Storage Networks)

Role Overview

Accountable for providing strategic global Infrastructure engineering leadership and subject matter expertise in Storage Engineering to delivery of business plans at acceptable cost and risk and meeting compliance requirements.

This role has global reach in that the strategy and thought leadership provided should support the global nature of the businesses and the systems which support them. This role reports to the Head of Database Storage Engineering and also sits within one or more technology verticals as a virtual team member

Work Experience / Background

None

Person Requirements

Basic Qualifications

10 years + deep technical/engineering competency developed through practical experience in the design, provisioning and operation of complex Storage Engineering technology environments.

Bachelors Degree

Preferred Qualifications

Has proven knowledge and expertise of specific technical platforms, applications and systems relevant to Storage Engineering supported by good general knowledge of a global technology portfolio.

Demonstrates expert enterprise engineering skills with an understanding of major enterprise architecture frameworks / approaches from experience in a large global organization that will allow ability to evaluate solutions in context.

Is regarded as a technical expert because of their technical and industry knowledge and represents the organization as a market leader in their field.

Proven ability of utilizing practical experience and knowledge to define and maintain Storage Engineering strategy that will enable delivery of business plans at acceptable cost and risk.

Proven ability of utilizing practical experience and knowledge of the complexities of managing end-to-end engineering of IT services to a large business function to mitigate any potential risks as early as possible and design programmes more realistically as a result.

Excellent understanding of the major technical platforms and infrastructure elements used by the organization, and their appropriate use.

Demonstrates ongoing current knowledge of breadth of services and products offered by the organization. Utilizes this knowledge to enhance or develop new IT services and products in line with business strategy.

Broad understanding of commercial information technologies and their application to global blue-chip organizations.

Development of business and benefits cases for the introduction of technology into an organization

Strong knowledge of key technology vendors and service providers, their primary product sets and their development roadmaps.

Excellent understanding of emerging technologies and their application within Fortune 500 organizations.

Proactive problem identification and problem solving skills