Senior Storage Engineer

About the role

NEC is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to join the high-performing Infrastructure Services team in Melbourne for a 6-month fixed-term contract. This is an opportunity to play a key role in supporting, maintaining, and enhancing critical storage platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. You'll work alongside talented engineers, contribute to major infrastructure initiatives, and help drive service innovation for customers.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver day-to-day operational support, including incident, service request, problem, and change management activities.
• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage solutions across on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments.
• Manage storage infrastructure lifecycle activities, including upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and technology refreshes.
• Deliver project-based work involving installations, migrations, upgrades, and platform enhancements.
• Identify opportunities to improve service quality, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to members of the Infrastructure Services team.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver exceptional customer outcomes.

About you

• 3+ years' experience supporting enterprise Storage and Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure.
• Strong experience with storage technologies including NetApp, HPE Primera / Alletra, Pure Storage, Hitachi Storage Platforms, and Brocade SAN Technologies.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues.
• Experience delivering infrastructure projects, including implementation, migration, upgrade, and design activities.
• Broad understanding of VMware and Public Cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure).
• Strong knowledge of ITIL Service Management practices.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and perform under pressure.

Desirable Experience

• Backup technologies such as Commvault.
• Experience with cloud-integrated storage and data protection solutions.
• Exposure to large-scale enterprise or managed services environments.

About us

At NEC, we help organisations solve complex business challenges through innovative technology solutions. We foster a collaborative and inclusive culture where employees are empowered to grow their careers, develop new skills, and make a meaningful impact.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with leading enterprise storage technologies.
• Exposure to complex, mission-critical environments.
• Collaborative and supportive team culture.
• Career development and learning opportunities.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangements.
• Access to employee benefits and wellbeing initiatives.

Apply Now

If you're a passionate Storage Engineer looking to take the next step in your career and work with cutting-edge technologies in a challenging enterprise environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today and join NEC in delivering technology solutions that make a difference.