Senior IT Consultant, Storage Solution for Digital Archive, Region Skåne

Project overview

Assignment Description

For Region Skåne, we are looking for a senior IT consultant for a storage solution for a digital archive.

Client and Background

Regionarkivet is responsible for preserving the region's collected digital information. The digital archive is based on the open-source software ETERNA (based on the archive system RODA), which runs on OpenShift on-prem. The assignment concerns the storage layer beneath the software: a robust, cost-effective, and long-term sustainable storage solution where information must never be lost.

Role and Competence

Must be able to plan the realization of a long-term sustainable storage solution based on the archive's needs, where archival permanence and restoration are paramount requirements. Competence in designing storage according to the 3-2-1 principle – at least three copies, two different media types, and at least one copy in a different physical location – as well as dimensioning the solution to scale from today's hundreds of gigabytes towards petabyte scale over time.

Ability to translate the archive's preservation needs into sustainable technical solutions for storage. When selecting storage media and storage technology, the consultant has an important role, not only providing a functional perspective but also a management and governance perspective focusing on permanence, robustness, and long-term cost-effectiveness. Competence in ensuring the solution integrates with OpenShift via CSI and persistent volumes and is compatible with ETERNA, and in designing it without encryption of archive data so that long-term readability is not dependent on key management.

Good skills in modeling and documenting storage architecture.

Deep and broad overall knowledge of IT infrastructure and storage, with specialization in storage media and storage technology for long-term preservation (object storage, file systems, tape/LTO, etc.). Ability for a holistic view and to assess realization alternatives based on permanence, robustness, and cost – for example, choices between different media types and between buying or building yourself. The solution must relate to OAIS (ISO 14721), RA-FS/archive law, and patient data law/GDPR. The consultant is expected to dare to think innovatively and propose the most appropriate solution.

Responsibilities

Belongs to category: Architecture – IT Architect

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• Responsible for the storage solution being designed correctly according to the archive's requirements and in relation to ETERNA/OpenShift, and that the solution can live on and preserve information for a very long time.
• Investigates and recommends suitable storage media (e.g., object storage, disk, tape/LTO, or a combination) based on permanence, robustness, cost-effectiveness, and scalability.
• Formulates and ensures the non-functional requirements, especially regarding redundancy, data integrity, restoration, and disaster recovery.
• Designs a storage architecture according to the 3-2-1 principle that integrates with OpenShift (CSI/persistent volumes) and is compatible with ETERNA.
• Ensures that the overall architectural principles and relevant standards and regulations (OAIS, RA-FS/archive law, patient data law/GDPR) are followed in the technical architecture.
• Conducts or participates in architecture reviews and anchors technical choices with both IT and the business.

Project details

• Start: 2026-11-02
• Location: Lund, SE, SE
• Languages: Swedish