Senior Manager, Storage Engineering

What you'll do

• Lead petabyte-scale storage deployments across on-premises data centers and major cloud service providers.
• Engineer automation pipelines to integrate storage systems with CMDB, configuration management, and observability stacks.
• Optimize data center efficiency by managing power consumption, drive density, and intelligent workload placement.
• Develop self-service tools and dashboards for internal customers to track real-time capacity and consumption trends.
• Manage vendor relationships and lead hardware refresh and end-of-life planning cycles for the storage portfolio.
• Recruit, mentor, and lead a team of storage deployment engineers while establishing engineering standards and runbooks.
• Own the full hardware and data lifecycle from procurement and provisioning to decommissioning and secure data destruction.
• Define and govern data lifecycle management policies to align retention, tiering, and archival standards with business workflows.

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.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating solutions from vendors including NetApp, Pure Storage, Cloudian, and DDN.
• Proficiency in configuration management using Ansible and scripting in Python and/or Bash.
• Expertise in observability tooling including Prometheus exporters, Grafana dashboards, and alerting rulesets.
• Experience with Kubernetes storage integrations (preferred).