About the position
Technical Specialist: Storage, Backup, Data Management
Location: Sandton, Johannesburg
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Technical Consultant to act as a technical authority across storage, backup, and data management environments.
This role is responsible for designing, integrating, and optimising enterprise infrastructure solutions across multiple platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, compliance, and cost efficiency.
The successful candidate will play a key role in:
- Driving technical thought leadership
- Ensuring end-to-end integration of infrastructure solutions
- Supporting data lifecycle management and regulatory compliance
- Mentoring teams and uplifting technical capability within the organisation
Key Responsibilities
1. Storage Engineering & Architecture
- Design and implement enterprise storage solutions across SAN, NAS, Object Storage, and HCI environments
- Configure and optimise storage platforms (e.g. Dell PowerMax, NetApp, Hitachi, Pure Storage)
- Define and implement storage tiering strategies aligned to workload performance and cost
- Develop capacity planning models and forecasting reports
- Lead storage refresh, migration, consolidation, and upgrade programmes
- Ensure high availability, resilience, and scalability of storage environments
2. Backup & Recovery Management
- Architect and implement backup solutions (e.g. Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, Rubrik, Cohesity)
- Define and manage backup policies, retention strategies, and scheduling
- Design and execute Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies and testing
- Optimise backup performance (compression, deduplication, window reduction)
- Integrate backup environments with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
3. Archiving, Compliance & Data Lifecycle Management
- Develop and implement enterprise archiving strategies (structured & unstructured data)
- Deploy archiving solutions (e.g. IBM Optim, Mimecast, Enterprise Vault)
- Ensure compliance with:
- POPIA
- SARB
- SARS
- National Archives Act
- Define data classification, retention, and lifecycle policies
- Support governance and audit requirements across the data estate
4. Technical Leadership & Advisory
- Act as a subject matter expert (SME) across storage and data management technologies
- Provide technical guidance on solution design and integration across platforms
- Align infrastructure solutions with enterprise architecture and business strategy
- Mentor engineers and contribute to capability development within GT
- Engage stakeholders across architecture, engineering, and operations teams
Required Skills & Experience
Core Infrastructure & Platforms
- Strong experience in enterprise storage environments (SAN/NAS/Object)
- Deep knowledge of storage vendors:
- Dell EMC (PowerMax, Compellent)
- NetApp
- Hitachi (VSP, HUSVM, HUS)
- Experience with backup technologies:
- Commvault
- NetBackup
- Veeam (advantageous)
Systems & Operating Environments
- UNIX: Solaris, AIX
- Linux: Red Hat (RHCE preferred)
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Virtualisation: VMware (VCP preferred)
Networking & Infrastructure
- Cisco Nexus, Cisco Fabric, Cisco UCS
- SAN technologies:
- Brocade SAN switches
- Cisco MDS
- Load balancing: F5 Big-IP
Cloud & Modern Platforms
- Exposure to cloud environments:
- Hybrid infrastructure and cloud integration experience
Additional Technical Capabilities
- Capacity planning and performance optimisation
- Disaster Recovery (DR) and business continuity
- Data lifecycle management and governance
- Infrastructure automation (nice-to-have)
Key Competencies
- Strong solution design and systems thinking
- Ability to operate across multiple technologies and domains
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and advisory skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- Ability to work in complex, enterprise-scale environments
Ideal Candidate Profile
- 8–12+ years’ experience in enterprise infrastructure / storage engineering
- Proven experience in large-scale banking or financial services environments
- Strong track record in leading complex infrastructure initiatives
- Comfortable operating at both hands-on technical and strategic advisory levels
Why This Role Matters
This role is critical to enabling the bank’s data-driven strategy, ensuring that:
- Data is secure, available, and compliant
- Infrastructure is cost-efficient and scalable
- The organisation can support modern analytics, AI, and digital platforms
Desired Skills:
- storage engineering
- storage architecture
- SAN
