Storage Migration Consultant

Storage Migration Consultant

Contract: Initial 6 months
Rate: 550 to 600 per day
IR35: Inside IR35
Location: Bank, London
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 2 to 3 days per week onsite
Security Clearance: Active SC preferred, or must be eligible to obtain SC

We are looking for an experienced Storage Migration Consultant to support a large scale enterprise storage transformation and migration programme.

The successful consultant will have strong hands on experience across enterprise storage technologies, particularly Dell EMC Isilon, Pure Storage and Cohesity, with a proven background delivering complex storage migrations within large, secure environments.

Key Responsibilities

Plan, design and execute enterprise storage migration activities

Migrate data and workloads between legacy and modern storage platforms

Support migrations involving Dell EMC Isilon, Pure Storage and Cohesity

Carry out discovery and assessment of existing storage environments

Produce detailed migration plans, runbooks and implementation documentation

Define migration waves, dependencies, risks and rollback procedures

Perform data validation and integrity checks before and after migrations

Troubleshoot storage, connectivity, performance and migration issues

Work closely with infrastructure, server, network, security and application teams

Support migration cutovers and post migration validation

Ensure migrations are delivered with minimal disruption to business services

Provide technical input into storage architecture and migration strategy

Maintain documentation throughout the migration lifecycle

Essential Experience

Strong enterprise Storage Migration experience

Hands on experience with Dell EMC Isilon / PowerScale

Strong experience with Pure Storage

Experience working with Cohesity

Proven experience delivering large scale data and storage migrations

Strong understanding of NAS and SAN storage environments

Experience with NFS, SMB/CIFS, Fibre Channel and iSCSI

Experience planning and executing migration cutovers

Strong understanding of data replication, backup, recovery and resilience

Experience troubleshooting performance, capacity and storage infrastructure issues

Ability to produce technical migration documentation and runbooks

Experience working within complex enterprise environments

Desirable Experience

Dell EMC PowerScale

Pure FlashArray or FlashBlade

Cohesity DataProtect

NetApp or other enterprise storage platforms

VMware environments

Backup and recovery technologies

Data centre migration or transformation programmes

Automation or scripting experience using PowerShell or Python

Experience within financial services, government or other highly regulated environments

Security Clearance

Candidates with active SC Clearance are highly desirable.

Candidates without current SC Clearance must be eligible and willing to undergo SC Clearance as part of the engagement.