Lead Storage Engineer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
AMD is a company focused on building innovative products that enhance computing experiences. The Senior Manager of IT Storage Engineering will lead the strategy and delivery of enterprise storage and data protection platforms, ensuring alignment with business goals while overseeing operational excellence and engineering team leadership.
Responsibilities:
• Own and evolve the storage platform roadmap, balancing EDA performance requirements with enterprise resilience, compliance, and cost goals
• Define and govern reference architectures across file, block, object storage, and data protection (on-prem and cloud)
• Lead storage design reviews for EDA workflows, including metadata-intensive and high IOPS/low latency workloads (build/test/simulation/regression flows)
• Establish standard patterns for tiering, archiving, retention, immutability (WORM), and disaster recovery (RPO/RTO, replication, failover)
• Design solutions supporting AI workloads (including >5TB/s training throughput)
• Ensure storage segmentation and isolation aligned with performance and security requirements
• Align all architectures with security, encryption, RBAC, audit logging, and data governance standards
• Own end-to-end storage and backup service delivery (availability, performance, capacity, recoverability, user experience)
• Lead major incident management, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive actions
• Define and track SLAs/SLOs (latency, throughput, backup success, restore times, replication health)
• Develop and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and operational procedures with continuous improvement loops
• Drive storage observability, monitoring, and performance optimization
• Lead automation initiatives using AI tools, Infrastructure-as-Code, and scripting (Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell)
• Enable automation across provisioning, quotas, snapshots, replication, and policy enforcement
• Promote self-service models, standardized templates, and governance guardrails
• Integrate storage platforms with enterprise tooling (ServiceNow, CMDB, observability platforms)
• Foster an engineering culture focused on reliability, automation, documentation, and partnership
• Own capacity planning, forecasting, and cost optimization (including cloud FinOps alignment)
• Manage vendor relationships, contracts, renewals, RFPs, and technology evaluations
• Drive total cost of ownership (TCO) optimization across solutions
• Oversee lifecycle management including upgrades, refreshes, and decommissioning
• Manage and mentor engineering teams (onshore/offshore), including hiring, performance management, and succession planning
• Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for storage across Engineering, IT, InfoSec, Compliance, and Data teams
• Partner with application owners to optimize performance, data placement, and protection strategies
• Communicate technical strategy, risks, and outcomes effectively to executive leadership
Qualifications:
Required:
• Strong leadership and people management skills with the ability to mentor and grow high-performing teams
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes for executive stakeholders
• Collaborative mindset with strong stakeholder management across Engineering, IT, Security, and Compliance
• Strategic thinker with a balance of innovation and pragmatic execution
• Problem-solving orientation with a focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence
• Customer-focused approach with an emphasis on user experience and service reliability
• Own and evolve the storage platform roadmap, balancing EDA performance requirements with enterprise resilience, compliance, and cost goals
• Define and govern reference architectures across file, block, object storage, and data protection (on-prem and cloud)
• Lead storage design reviews for EDA workflows, including metadata-intensive and high IOPS/low latency workloads (build/test/simulation/regression flows)
• Establish standard patterns for tiering, archiving, retention, immutability (WORM), and disaster recovery (RPO/RTO, replication, failover)
• Design solutions supporting AI workloads (including >5TB/s training throughput)
• Ensure storage segmentation and isolation aligned with performance and security requirements
• Align all architectures with security, encryption, RBAC, audit logging, and data governance standards
• Own end-to-end storage and backup service delivery (availability, performance, capacity, recoverability, user experience)
• Lead major incident management, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive actions
• Define and track SLAs/SLOs (latency, throughput, backup success, restore times, replication health)
• Develop and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and operational procedures with continuous improvement loops
• Drive storage observability, monitoring, and performance optimization
• Lead automation initiatives using AI tools, Infrastructure-as-Code, and scripting (Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell)
• Enable automation across provisioning, quotas, snapshots, replication, and policy enforcement
• Promote self-service models, standardized templates, and governance guardrails
• Integrate storage platforms with enterprise tooling (ServiceNow, CMDB, observability platforms)
• Foster an engineering culture focused on reliability, automation, documentation, and partnership
• Own capacity planning, forecasting, and cost optimization (including cloud FinOps alignment)
• Manage vendor relationships, contracts, renewals, RFPs, and technology evaluations
• Drive total cost of ownership (TCO) optimization across solutions
• Oversee lifecycle management including upgrades, refreshes, and decommissioning
• Manage and mentor engineering teams (onshore/offshore), including hiring, performance management, and succession planning
• Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for storage across Engineering, IT, InfoSec, Compliance, and Data teams
• Partner with application owners to optimize performance, data placement, and protection strategies
• Communicate technical strategy, risks, and outcomes effectively to executive leadership
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Preferred:
• Experience in enterprise storage and data protection (file, block, object)
• engineering team management experience
• Proven expertise in high-performance storage solutions for EDA, HPC, AI/ML workloads
• Deep knowledge of NAS/SAN architectures, high-availability design, and storage networking (FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, S3)
• Strong experience with backup and disaster recovery (snapshots, replication, immutability, air-gap strategies)
• Hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms (e.g., NetApp ONTAP, Dell PowerScale/Isilon, HPE, IBM, VAST, WEKA, etc.)
• Experience with open, software-defined, and vendor-neutral storage ecosystems
• Familiarity with data protection platforms (Rubrik, Commvault, etc.)
• Experience with public cloud storage (Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI), including lifecycle policies and replication
• Strong understanding of observability, performance tuning, and troubleshooting (IOPS, latency, throughput, congestion, multipathing)
• Experience supporting EDA tools (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA) or similar IO-intensive systems
• Familiarity with Linux environments, NFS tuning, and identity integration (AD/LDAP)
• Exposure to security and compliance frameworks (SOX, ISO, NIST, data retention, legal hold)
• Experience in change, incident, and problem management processes
Company:
Advanced Micro Devices is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions. Founded in 1969, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.