Infrastructure Architect - Storage (BFSI)

Infrastructure Architect – Storage (BFSI) This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE partner/customer office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what’s next for you. Job Family Definition: Provide technology consulting to external customers and internal project teams. Responsible for providing technical support and/or leadership in the creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to meet customers’ business needs and, consequently, for understanding customers’ businesses. As trusted advisor create and maintain effective customer relationships so as to insure customer satisfaction. Maintain knowledge of leading edge technologies and industry/market domain knowledge. Actively contribute to the company’s solutions portfolio by providing information ranging from technical knowledge to methodologies based on experience gained from customer projects. Shape technical direction and technical strategies within the organization and for external customers. Accountable for consistent and significant chargeability levels (or expense relief for internal project teams) and for assisting in meeting or exceeding revenue and customer satisfaction goals. Contribute to organization’s profitability by generating and cultivating new business opportunities and by providing technical support for deal proposal development. Management Level Definition: Contributions have visible technical impact on a product or major subcomponent. Applies in-depth professional knowledge and innovative ideas to solve complex problems. Visible contributions improve time-to-market, achieve cost reductions, or satisfy current and future unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology area applying innovative principles and ideas. Provides technical leadership for significant project/program work. Leads or participates in cross-functional initiatives and contributes to mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization. Summary: The Infrastructure Architect – Storage is responsible for designing, governing, and optimizing highly secure, resilient, and compliant storage platforms supporting mission-critical BFSI workloads. The role focuses on enterprise storage architecture, data protection, regulatory compliance, DR/BCP readiness, and performance optimization across on-prem, private cloud, and hybrid environments. What you’ll do: Responsibilities: Storage Architecture & Design Design and govern enterprise storage architectures for core banking, payments, trading, risk, and analytics platforms Define SAN, NAS, Object, Software-Defined Storage (SDS ) and hybrid cloud storage strategies Architect high-availability (HA) and fault-tolerant storage solutions with zero or near-zero RPO/RTO Lead technology refresh, capacity planning, and storage modernization programs BFSI Compliance & Data Protection Ensure adherence to RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR (where applicable) Design data encryption at rest & in transit, secure key management, and data sovereignty controls Define data retention, archival, and immutability (WORM) strategies for regulatory workloads Support audit readiness, risk assessments, and compliance reviews Backup, DR & Business Continuity Architect enterprise backup & recovery platforms supporting large-scale BFSI environments Design and test Disaster Recovery (DR) architectures across DC-DR / multi-region setups Support BCP drills, regulatory DR testing, and failover simulations Optimize backup performance, restore SLAs, and ransomware recovery readiness Hybrid Cloud & Automation Integrate storage platforms with private cloud, sovereign cloud, and public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP where permitted ) Enable cloud-native storage, tiering, and lifecycle management Drive automation using IaC (Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell) for provisioning and compliance Enable self-service and policy-driven storage operations Performance, Operations & Governance Define storage performance baselines, monitoring, and proactive capacity forecasting Troubleshoot complex performance, latency, and data corruption issues Establish storage standards, reference architectures, and design patterns Mentor L2/L3 engineers and act as final escalation authority Technology & Platform Expertise Enterprise Storage SAN / NAS / Object Storage architectures Vendors: HPE (Primera, Alletra , Nimble), Dell EMC ( PowerMax , PowerStore , Isilon), NetApp (ONTAP), Hitachi Vantara Software-Defined Storage: Ceph, vSAN Data Protection & DR Backup & Recovery: Veeam, Commvault, Veritas NetBackup Replication & DR: SRDF, SnapMirror , Metro-Cluster, Zerto Ransomware protection & immutable backups Security & Compliance Encryption, KMS/HSM integration Secure multi-tenancy and access controls Regulatory logging and audit controls Cloud & Virtualization VMware vSphere / NSX Hybrid cloud storage integration Kubernetes storage (CSI, persistent volumes) What you need to bring: Education and Experience Required: 12+ years of professional experience and a Master of Arts/Science or equivalent degree in computer science or related area of study; without a Masters degree, three additional years of relevant professional experience (15+ years in total). Mandatory 10+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure & storage architecture Strong exposure to BFSI workloads and regulatory environments Deep expertise in storage design, DR, backup, and performance tuning Experience handling audits, DR drills, and compliance reviews Excellent stakeholder and documentation skills Preferred Experience in sovereign or regulated cloud environments Exposure to DevOps / IaC for infrastructure Multi-vendor architecture & migration experience Certifications HPE Storage Solutions Architect / ASE NetApp NCIE / Dell EMC Proven Professional ITIL / TOGAF ISO 27001 Lead Implementer or Auditor Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure – architecture level) Behavioral & Leadership Expectations Strong risk-aware decision making Ability to interface with CIO, CISO, Risk & Compliance teams Ownership mindset for availability, data integrity, and regulatory compliance Additional Skills: Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Client Expectations Management, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Centric Solutions, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Process Improvements, Product Services, Relationship Building {+ 5 more} What We Can Offer You: Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing. Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division. Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. Let's Stay Connected: Follow @HPECareers on Instagram to see the latest on people, culture and tech at HPE. #india #operations Job: Services Job Level: TCP_05 HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. 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