Senior Manager, Storage Production Engineering

What you'll do

• Lead and coach a team of Storage Production Engineers in a collaborative and learning-focused environment.
• Design, deploy, and improve large-scale storage systems including distributed storage, parallel file systems, and object storage.
• Use automation, monitoring, and analytics to improve the reliability and efficiency of storage services.
• Own capacity planning, data lifecycle management, cost awareness, and high availability or disaster recovery plans.
• Evaluate and adopt modern storage technologies such as NVMe over Fabrics, RDMA, and high-speed interconnects.
• Guide incident response and root cause analysis to implement permanent fixes for recurring storage issues.
• Partner with engineering and AI/ML teams to optimize data pipelines, access patterns, and workflow performance.

What we're looking for

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Storage Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 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.
• Direct experience managing infrastructure operations including on-call rotations, incident response, maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization of production systems.
• Hands-on experience with parallel file systems (Lustre, GPFS), distributed storage (Ceph, MinIO), and enterprise object or NAS platforms.
• Experience with storage networking and protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, RDMA, and NVMe-oF.
• Practical experience with automation and infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Experience managing and scaling SRE/Production Engineering teams in large scale, mission critical environments (preferred).