Storage Infrastructure Specialist

2 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ImpraVise Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Senior Business Analyst

  • Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2025
    • 11:59 pm, Canberra time
  • 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

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

  • Candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.
  • Must be an Australian Citizen

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