Back up and Storage Architect

Work with vendors to POC new products and enhance capability of existing platforms
Engage with engineering, operations and other architecture teams to align services to existing and future business capabilities
Conduct project/account design reviews
Review and approve project design deliverables
Contributes to definition of "technical authority and the associated standards of work
Confers with and advises peers and IT Infrastructure management on technical problems, priorities, and methods
Experience supporting mission critical storage & data protection solutions is highly desired, leading POCs, developing test plans, working on requirements determination
Expert level in enterprise data protection architectures (tape, tapeless, cloud, object storage, ), concepts (virtualization, archive, deduplication, ), and solutions (Networker,
Gain an in-depth understanding of the business and IT environments