Senior Manager, Storage Engineering

What you'll do

• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of petabyte-scale storage deployments across on-premises data centers and major cloud providers.
• Engineer automation pipelines to integrate storage systems with CMDB, configuration management platforms, and observability stacks.
• Drive data center efficiency initiatives by optimizing power consumption, drive density, and rack space footprint.
• Develop self-service tools and dashboards for internal teams to track real-time storage capacity and growth trends.
• Manage vendor relationships and lead hardware refresh and end-of-life planning cycles across the storage portfolio.
• Recruit, mentor, and manage a team of storage engineers while establishing engineering standards and runbooks.
• Define and govern data lifecycle management policies including retention, tiering, archival, and secure data destruction.
• Partner with architecture and security teams to evaluate new technologies and establish production-ready deployment standards.

What we're looking for

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Storage Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience in large-scale storage architecture, operations, production engineering, or infrastructure.
• 6+ years of people management or technical leadership experience with storage, infrastructure, or site reliability teams.
• Deep protocol-level knowledge of block, file, object, and high-performance parallel file systems (GPFS/Lustre).
• Hands-on experience deploying solutions from multiple major vendors including NetApp, Pure Storage, Cloudian, and DDN.
• Solid understanding of storage hardware internals, bare-metal server hardware, and data center network hardware.
• Expertise in observability tooling like Prometheus and Grafana, along with configuration management using Ansible.
• Proficiency in Python or Bash for scripting and integrating with REST APIs to automate workflows.