SAN Technical Expert (m/f/d); FREELANCE; Germany

Project overview

Good afternoon,

I am looking for an experienced SAN Technical Expert to support a strategic assessment and optimization of an enterprise storage environment within the financial services sector. The consultant will evaluate the current SAN, block storage, and Oracle Exadata landscape and provide recommendations for improving performance, resilience, scalability and cost efficiency.

Project:

Responsibilities

Required Skills & Experience

• Assess existing SAN infrastructure, enterprise storage, and Oracle Exadata
• Analyze capacity, utilization, growth, redundancy, and support models.
• Establish a TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) baseline and identify optimization opportunities.
• Review HA, replication, backup, and disaster recovery
• Develop service-class and storage sizing
• Evaluate storage tiering, data reduction, and capacity management
• Assess Fibre Channel Ethernet-based storage solutions.
• Define future-state architecture and optimization recommendations.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders and executives.
• Strong expertise in Enterprise Block Storage and SAN Architecture.
• Experience with Oracle Exadata and alternative database platforms.
• Knowledge of Database Licensing, support, and cost models.
• Deep understanding of High Availability (HA), Replication, Backup, and Recovery solutions.
• Experience with Infrastructure TCO Modelling and Business Case Development.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive-level communication skills.
• Experience in regulated environments, ideally Banking or Financial Services.

Nice to have

If you are interested in this project, please send me your current CV together with your desired hourly rate and earliest availability and I will contact you within the next few days for more details about the project. If you know someone, who might fit and might be interested in this project, do not hesitate to forward this mail and my contact details, because recommendations are always welcome. :)

Kind Regards,

Veronika Igic

Senior Candidate Consultant

Computer Futures

SThree_Germany is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

• Experience with Dell EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage, IBM Storage, or HPE Storage.
• Consulting or infrastructure transformation background.
• Experience with large-scale storage optimization programs.

Project details

ASAP

Capacity: Full-time

first contract 3 months (extension expected)

Remote and on-site Share: Remote with occasional travel to Switzerland will be required based on project needs and prior agreement with the client. Regular weekly on-site presence is not expected.

Project languages: English (Fluent) German (Fluent)

• Start: 2026-11
• Remote: onsite
• Location: Switzerland, Schweiz, CH
• Languages: German