Storage Architect

Job description

Southbank
About Capgemini
With more than 125,000 people in 44 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2012 global revenues of EUR 10.3 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.
Infrastructure Services
Capgemini’s Infrastructure Services offering comprises a comprehensive portfolio of services that maps across all aspects of IT infrastructure advisory, design, implementation and ongoing management, to serve as true an end-to-end capability partner entirely focused on business outcomes. The result is an infrastructure solution that is efficient, scalable and secure, that strikes a balance between flexibility and cost, while facilitating innovation and future business planning.
Our portfolio of services covers all aspects of infrastructure to provide true end-to-end solutions focused on your business outcomes. The result is improved service quality, productivity and end-user satisfaction.
- Data Center Services
- Infrastructure Outsourcing
- Infrastructure Transformation Services
- Remote Infrastructure Management
- Workplace Services
- Virtualization
- Service Integration
- Service Management
Role Requirements:
The successful candidate will fully flexible and ideally have experience of working in a large outsource service environment. The applicant will be highly motivated in the delivery of robust infrastructure designs for medium to large-scale enterprise class storage, data protection and archive solutions.
They will also work to support bids, often in the early stage of requirements gathering and formal proposal; through to high and detailed level design and implementation, providing consultancy and technical leadership throughout.
The key responsibilities of this role will include:
- Owning the design of specific technology solutions from high-level and detailed-level designs to deployment and handover to delivery.
- Ability to mentor more junior members of the team.
- Design:
o Design efficient solutions that are operationally cost effective to maintain
o Exploit and develop shared blueprint and documentation for ongoing reuse
o Ensure that solutions and designs are aligned with both the Global Infrastructure Outsourcing (GIO) and UK Infrastructure Architecture Group (IAG) service offers and standard products / tools
o Both verbally and in written form articulate solutions and benefits accurately and persuasively reflecting the client’s interests or concerns
o Identify maintenance costs based on effort required, value delivered and client’s expectations
o Ensure that the detailed solutions align with client and strategy and SLA’s
- Implement:
o Work with the Storage Management team to deliver the designed solution
o Offer relevant guidance on
 Build and configuration documentation standards
 Preparation of the physical environments for deployments
 Preparation of test plans & scripts
o Identify “lessons learned” for future designs
Key skills required:
A mandatory requirement for storage, archiving and backup based solutions experience with the following skill set:
- Enterprise, Mid-Tier and Archive storage solutions from suppliers such as EMC, HP, IBM, HDS, NetApp and Dell
- Data Backup and data backup network design including the use of software from Symantec, HP, IBM and EMC
- FC and IP SAN fabric designs using hardware from Brocade & Cisco
- EMC Networker and Data Domain
- Broad proven skills covering proposal, solution costing and design of medium and enterprise-level infrastructure solutions for archiving and compliance
While certification knowledge levels in all of the above is not expected, the individual must feel comfortable in the above areas, with an expectation that they are also able to liaise and engage, technically, with specialists as required.
Experience:
- Customer facing with the ability to communicate at both high and low level to suit the audience.
- An understanding of the solutions available to deliver business value
- A breadth of technical understanding
- Good written and verbal skills
- Broad experience of IT solution development