Early Career: IT Infrastructure - Storage Engineer

Texas Instruments•Dallas, TX

About The Position

In this role you will be responsible for defining and owning the enterprise storage architecture strategy, roadmap, and standards across SAN, NAS, Object Storage, and Software-Defined Storage platforms. You will lead the evaluation, selection, and adoption of emerging storage technologies, and architect multi-site, globally distributed storage solutions with disaster recovery, business continuity, and high availability requirements. You will also establish storage capacity planning models, performance benchmarking, and TCO analysis methodologies, and drive storage infrastructure modernization initiatives and technology refresh cycles. Additionally, you will design complex storage solutions for enterprise-scale deployments supporting diverse workloads including databases, virtualization, containerization, HPC, AI/ML, and big data analytics. You will lead architecture reviews, provide technical guidance, and make design decisions for critical storage projects, establishing best practices, design patterns, and reference architectures for storage infrastructure. You will also define SLAs, performance metrics, and operational KPIs for storage services, and evaluate and architect storage automation, orchestration, and self-service capabilities using Infrastructure-as-Code principles. You will architect solutions leveraging enterprise SAN/NAS platforms (Hitachi, NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage), Object Storage systems (S3-compatible platforms including HCP, ECS, NetApp GRID), Software-Defined Storage and hyper-converged infrastructure, storage networking (FC, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, RDMA), data protection technologies (snapshots, replication, backup/recovery), storage virtualization and tiering strategies. You will also architect data lifecycle management, retention policies, and compliance frameworks. You will partner with application teams, database administrators, virtualization team and infrastructure teams to understand requirements and design optimal solutions, and collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure storage solutions meet regulatory and data governance requirements. You will work with vendors on technology roadmaps, proof-of-concepts, and strategic partnerships, present architecture proposals and business cases to senior leadership and steering committees, and mentor storage administrators and SREs, providing technical training and knowledge transfer. Finally, you will research emerging technologies including NVMe and AI-driven storage management, drive automation initiatives to reduce operational overhead and improve service delivery, establish performance optimization strategies and cost optimization frameworks, and lead proof-of-concept initiatives and pilot programs for new storage technologies.

Requirements

Enterprise SAN/NAS platforms (Hitachi, NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage)
Object Storage systems (S3-compatible platforms including HCP, ECS, NetApp GRID)
Software-Defined Storage and hyper-converged infrastructure
Storage networking (FC, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, RDMA)
Data protection technologies (snapshots, replication, backup/recovery)
Storage virtualization and tiering strategies
Data lifecycle management, retention policies, and compliance frameworks
Databases, virtualization, containerization, HPC, AI/ML, and big data analytics workloads
Infrastructure-as-Code principles

Nice To Haves

NVMe
AI-driven storage management

Responsibilities

Define and own the enterprise storage architecture strategy, roadmap, and standards across SAN, NAS, Object Storage, and Software-Defined Storage platforms
Lead the evaluation, selection, and adoption of emerging storage technologies
Architect multi-site, globally distributed storage solutions with disaster recovery, business continuity, and high availability requirements
Establish storage capacity planning models, performance benchmarking, and TCO analysis methodologies
Drive storage infrastructure modernization initiatives and technology refresh cycles
Design complex storage solutions for enterprise-scale deployments supporting diverse workloads including databases, virtualization, containerization, HPC, AI/ML, and big data analytics
Lead architecture reviews, provide technical guidance, and make design decisions for critical storage projects
Establish best practices, design patterns, and reference architectures for storage infrastructure
Define SLAs, performance metrics, and operational KPIs for storage services
Evaluate and architect storage automation, orchestration, and self-service capabilities using Infrastructure-as-Code principles
Architect solutions leveraging enterprise SAN/NAS platforms (Hitachi, NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage)
Architect solutions leveraging Object Storage systems (S3-compatible platforms including HCP, ECS, NetApp GRID)
Architect solutions leveraging Software-Defined Storage and hyper-converged infrastructure
Architect solutions leveraging Storage networking (FC, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, RDMA)
Architect solutions leveraging Data protection technologies (snapshots, replication, backup/recovery)
Architect solutions leveraging Storage virtualization and tiering strategies
Architect data lifecycle management, retention policies, and compliance frameworks
Partner with application teams, database administrators, virtualization team and infrastructure teams to understand requirements and design optimal solutions
Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure storage solutions meet regulatory and data governance requirements
Work with vendors on technology roadmaps, proof-of-concepts, and strategic partnerships
Present architecture proposals and business cases to senior leadership and steering committees
Mentor storage administrators and SREs, providing technical training and knowledge transfer
Research emerging technologies including NVMe and AI-driven storage management
Drive automation initiatives to reduce operational overhead and improve service delivery
Establish performance optimization strategies and cost optimization frameworks
Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and pilot programs for new storage technologies