Storage Infrastructure Specialist

13 hours ago

Canberra, Australia Impravise Full time

Senior Business Analyst
- Department: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
- Estimated Start Date: 1st December
- Initial Contract Duration: 3 months
- Location of Work: ACT
- Working Arrangement: Onsite at the NFSA Building (Acton, ACT) for five (5) days each week for the whole contract duration within standard working hours
- Maximum Hours: 40 per week
- Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain Baseline

**Job Details**

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is seeking a Senior Storage Infrastructure Specialist for a three-month contract. Following recent infrastructure upgrades, this role will optimise our Dell PowerScale and Isilon environment to ensure maximum performance, efficiency, and scalability. The specialist will play a key role in supporting the NFSA’s petabyte-scale storage platform, which underpins critical Media & Entertainment workflows, including high-throughput media ingest, editing, archival, and retrieval.

**Key Deliverables**

Produce a comprehensive technical audit report documenting the current storage architecture, operational health, risks, and strategic recommendations.

Develop clear architecture diagrams representing cluster configuration, storage tiering, and data services.

Create operational runbooks to guide administration, troubleshooting, and routine storage maintenance.

Deliver capacity and growth forecasts with actionable recommendations to ensure scalability and efficient storage utilisation.

Conduct structured knowledge transfer sessions with ICT staff to enable ongoing management and operational continuity.

**Technical Scope**

Review and optimise storage cluster configuration, including all-flash, archive, and legacy nodes.

Analyse and optimise PowerScale data services, including SmartPools, SnapshotIQ, SyncIQ, and tiering strategies.

Identify and address storage performance bottlenecks, including metadata efficiency, I/O, and protocol-level throughput (SMB/NFS).

Recommend architectural changes to improve storage performance, utilisation, and reliability.

Produce clear documentation of the storage environment, including implementation and maintenance guidance.

**Skills and Experience**

Expert hands-on experience with Dell PowerScale and Isilon (OneFS 8.x/9.x).

Proven ability to design, administer, and optimise enterprise-scale storage environments for high-performance workloads.

Deep understanding of scale-out NAS architecture, storage tiering, and data services.

Experience documenting complex storage environments and producing operational runbooks.

Strong communication skills to present technical findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Scripting skills (Python/Bash) for automation and data analysis are highly desirable.

Criteria

**Job Types**: Full-time, Contract
Contract length: 3 months

Pay: From $800.00 per day

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