Title: Backup & Storage Architect 

Location: Troy, MI (5 Days Onsite)

Type: Contract C2C

Role Overview

The Backup & Storage Architect will lead the design, migration, administration, rapid recovery, and documentation of enterprise storage and backup platforms. Scope includes HPE Alletra, NetApp ONTAP, Infinidat InfiniBox, Dell Unity and backup stacks such as Commvault, Dell EMC Data Domain, Veeam, and Avamar. The architect ensures availability, integrity, cyber-resilience, compliance-and publishes clear, consumable design and operations artifacts (HLD/LLD/SOPs/runbooks).

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture & Design:

• Define and maintain enterprise storage & backup reference architectures across multi-vendor platforms.
• Produce and own High-Level Designs (HLD):
• End-to-end logical architecture, integration touchpoints (AD/DNS/PKI), security & resiliency patterns, RTO/RPO tiers, data flows, and guardrails.
• Produce and own Low-Level Designs (LLD):
• Detailed configurations (arrays, pools/volumes/filesystems, snapshots/replication), protocol settings (FC/iSCSI/NFS/SMB), Commvault plans/policies, Data Domain DD Boost/retention lock, Veeam/Avamar job design, firewall/ports, naming/IP schema, version/firmware matrices.
• Implement resiliency baselines (snapshots, replication, immutable copies) and security hardening (RBAC, MFA/SSO, encryption).

Migration & Cutover:

• Lead end-to-end storage & backup migrations: assessment, dependency mapping, wave planning, pilot, parallel run, cutover & validation.
• Author migration runbooks and cutover checklists (pre-checks, execution steps, rollback criteria, post-cutover validation).
• Automate tasks using PowerShell/Python/Ansible; leverage native tools (SnapMirror, InfiniBox replication, Unity replication, Commvault aux copies, DD replication, Veeam replication/Instant Recovery).