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The Storage System Technical Lead joins the Cloud Hardware and System Engineering team to provide end-to-end technical leadership for next-generation Azure storage hardware platforms. This role bridges architecture and execution by ensuring that hardware, firmware, software, validation, manufacturing, and operations converge into a high-quality system solution. The lead is responsible for driving program-level decisions, establishing quality bars for specifications and test plans, identifying integration gaps, and resolving complex issues across the development lifecycle. Key technical areas include storage head nodes, JBOD, JBOF, and high-capacity systems involving PCIe, NVMe, SSDs, HDDs, SAS, and Ethernet interfaces. The role requires expertise in BIOS, BMCs, and system management protocols while navigating complexities in signal integrity, thermal engineering, power delivery, and operating system interactions to solve challenges related to capacity, performance, availability, and security for data-intensive cloud and AI workloads.
Establish quality standards for system specifications, design documentation, validation strategies, and launch criteria.
Identify integration gaps and assess risks for new technologies across subsystems and supply chains.
Lead system design reviews with internal engineering teams, silicon partners, and manufacturing partners.
Resolve complex technical issues found during bring-up, manufacturing, or fleet operations to ensure root cause resolution.
Assess the technical impact of proposed changes and communicate risk status to leadership.
What we're looking for
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field and 7+ years of technical engineering experience.
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Extensive experience designing or developing storage hardware platforms including head nodes, JBOD, JBOF, or comparable high-capacity systems (preferred).
Experience leading cross-functional technical decisions, storage-system validation strategies, and resolution of complex system-level issues (preferred).
Broad technical understanding across electrical design, signal integrity, mechanical design, thermal engineering, power delivery, processors, memory, storage, networking, and security (preferred).
Experience developing high-capacity systems with familiarity with PCIe, NVMe, SSDs, HDDs, SAS, Ethernet, and other system interfaces (preferred).
Knowledge of system firmware including BIOS, BMCs, management protocols, telemetry, and operating system interactions with server hardware (preferred).
VMware
Enterprise Storage
Agile Methodology
ITIL
Data Protection
Backup Services
Virtualization
Server Operating Systems
Cloud Technologies
AI
Scrum
Project Management