Associate Distinguished Engineer (Sr. Enterprise Consultant - Storage)

About Nagarro

In a changing and evolving world, challenges are ever more unique and complex. Nagarro helps to transform, adapt, and build new ways into the future through a forward-thinking, agile, and caring mindset. Today, we are 18,000+ experts across 37+ countries, forming a Nation of Nagarrians, ready to help our customers succeed.

The nature of IT & digital product engineering has reached an incredible state of velocity and transition. We must adapt and meet it with an agile mindset that isn't afraid to iterate towards the perfect solution. If we only solve today's problems, it's not enough. We must do more. We must courageously embrace the future, with vision and clarity about where technology & business are heading. Thinking breakthroughs gets us there.

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Job Description

Must have Skills : UNIX

To be the custodian of technical thought leadership within Group Technology (GT) environment by providing expertise, guidance and advice that relates to the integration of solutions across multiple technologies, and the supporting-processes such that GT is able to deliver sustainable and quality solutions in alignment to the overall strategy of the client whilst growing the technical expertise within the organization.

Core Responsibilities

Storage Engineering & Architecture

• Design and implement enterprise storage solutions (SAN, NAS, Object Storage, Hyper-Converged).
• Configure and optimise storage arrays (e.g., Dell PowerMax, Pure Storage, Hitachi, NetApp).
• Define storage tiering strategies aligned to performance, cost, and workload needs.
• Develop capacity planning models and forecasting reports.
• Lead storage refresh, upgrades, migrations, and consolidation programmes.

Backup & Recovery Management

• Architect backup solutions using platforms such as Commvault, Veeam, TSM, Rubrik, or Cohesity.
• Develop backup policies, schedules, retention management, and media workflows.
• Implement DR solutions and test recovery capabilities for critical workloads.
• Optimise backup windows, deduplication, compression, and storage efficiencies.
• Integrate backup platforms with cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP).

Archiving & Compliance

• Develop enterprise archiving strategies (structured + unstructured data).
• Implement archiving tools such as IBM Optim, Mimecast, Enterprise Vault, or cloud-native archives.
• Ensure compliance with POPIA, PFMA, National Archives Act, SARB, SARS, and internal governance.
• Drive defensible retention, classification policies, and data lifecycle management.

Qualifications

The resources should have the following in-depth skills:

• UNIX: Solaris and AIX Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
• VMware Certified Professional
• Cisco Fabric & Cisco Nexus
• Microsoft: Microsoft Windows Servers Backup, NetBackup and Commvault
• Hardware: Dell, HP, Intel, Cisco UCS, Sun Server Hardware, EMC, Dell Compellent, Hitachi VSP, HUSVM, HUS, F5 BigIP, Brocade SAN switches, Cisco MDS SAN switches