Senior Manager IT Storage Engineering

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•San Jose, CA

7h•Hybrid

About The Position

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career. Lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise storage and data protection platforms supporting both EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and corporate workloads. This role is responsible for defining scalable, high-performance, and resilient storage solutions across datacenter and cloud environments, while ensuring alignment with business objectives, security, compliance, and cost optimization. The position also oversees operational excellence, innovation (including AI-scale workloads), and engineering team leadership.

Requirements

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
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree is an asset
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

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