Storage Engineer - Pure Storage Specialist

Storage Engineer - Pure Storage Specialist
Hybrid - 2-3 days onsite (Bank, London)
Contract - £500-£550 per day (Inside IR35)
6 months+ (with potential extension)

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Storage Engineer with deep hands-on expertise across enterprise SAN, NAS, and backup platforms, with Pure Storage as a core technology focus.

This role supports complex storage refresh, migration, and integration programmes within a live production data centre environment, operating under strict governance and change control frameworks typical of financial services.

You will play a key role in delivering business-critical infrastructure changes safely, methodically, and with zero disruption to payment and production services.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support enterprise storage solutions, with a primary focus on Pure Storage FlashArray platforms, alongside broader SAN and NAS technologies.

• Deliver end-to-end storage migration and refresh programmes, including:

  • Data migration and replication

  • Cutover planning and execution

  • Validation and rollback planning

  • Post-migration support and stabilisation

• Configure and manage Fibre Channel SAN environments, including zoning, host presentation, and coordination with network teams.

• Support and maintain enterprise backup platforms (eg NetBackup, Networker, Avamar, Rubrik) ensuring alignment with DR and resilience strategies.

• Collaborate closely with compute and network engineers to ensure seamless end-to-end infrastructure delivery.

• Produce high- and low-level designs (HLD/LLD), implementation documentation, test plans, and operational handover materials.

• Operate within formal ITIL-aligned change frameworks, ensuring all activity is approved, auditable, risk-assessed, and controlled.

• Proactively identify and escalate risks, particularly where work may impact live production or payment services.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 10+ years' experience as a Storage Engineer or Storage Consultant within enterprise data centre environments.

• Strong hands-on expertise with Pure Storage (installation, configuration, migration, replication, and support).

• Broad experience across multi-vendor SAN, NAS, and backup platforms.

• Proven track record delivering storage projects end-to-end in live production environments.

• Strong understanding of:

  • Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies

  • Replication technologies

  • Resilience and data protection frameworks

• Working knowledge of VMware and Windows/Linux operating systems.

• Experience working within ITIL-aligned change, incident, and problem management frameworks.

• Excellent documentation, stakeholder communication, and risk management skills.

Desirable

• Experience within financial services or regulated environments.

• Vendor certifications (Pure Storage, Dell EMC, NetApp, Brocade).

• Experience acting as a resident engineer or SME within large enterprise organisations.

The Ideal Candidate

You are calm, structured, and highly methodical. You understand the risk profile of operating within a live production data centre supporting critical business and payment services.

You combine deep technical capability with disciplined change control, strong documentation standards, and the confidence to lead complex storage migrations safely and successfully.

Working Pattern

• Hybrid: 2-3 days per week onsite in Bank, London

• Out-of-hours work required:

  • Weekend change windows

  • Early/late calls with US stakeholders