Senior Manager IT Storage Engineering

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•San Jose, CA

About The Position

Lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise storage and data protection platforms supporting EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and corporate workloads. Define scalable, high-performance, resilient storage solutions across datacenter and cloud environments while aligning with business objectives, security, compliance, and cost optimization. Oversee operational excellence and innovation, including AI-scale workloads, and provide engineering team leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Strong leadership and people-management skills, including the ability to mentor and grow high-performing teams.
Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes for executive stakeholders.
Collaborative stakeholder-management skills across Engineering, IT, Security, and Compliance.
Strategic thinking balanced with innovation and pragmatic execution.
Problem-solving orientation focused on continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Customer-focused approach emphasizing user experience and service reliability.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
Experience in enterprise storage and data protection across file, block, and object storage, including open, software-defined, and vendor-neutral storage ecosystems.
Expertise in high-performance storage for EDA, HPC, and AI/ML workloads, including support for Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA, or similar I/O-intensive systems.
Deep knowledge of NAS/SAN architectures, high-availability design, and storage networking, including FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and S3.
Experience with backup and disaster recovery, including snapshots, replication, immutability, and air-gap strategies; familiarity with Rubrik and Commvault.
Hands-on experience with NetApp ONTAP, Dell PowerScale/Isilon, HPE, IBM, VAST, and WEKA, and public cloud storage across Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI.
Understanding of observability, performance tuning, and troubleshooting involving IOPS, latency, throughput, congestion, and multipathing; familiarity with Linux, NFS tuning, and AD/LDAP integration.
Engineering team-management experience and exposure to security and compliance frameworks, including SOX, ISO, NIST, data retention, and legal hold, as well as change, incident, and problem-management processes.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the storage platform roadmap and reference architectures across file, block, object storage, and data protection, balancing EDA performance needs with enterprise resilience, compliance, and cost goals across on-premises and cloud environments.
Lead storage design reviews for EDA workflows, including metadata-intensive and high-IOPS, low-latency build, test, simulation, and regression workloads, and design solutions for AI workloads, including training throughput exceeding 5 TB/s.
Establish standard patterns for tiering, archiving, retention, immutability (WORM), and disaster recovery, including RPO/RTO, replication, and failover.
Ensure storage segmentation and isolation meet performance and security requirements, and align architectures with security, encryption, RBAC, audit logging, and data governance standards.
Own end-to-end storage and backup service delivery, including availability, performance, capacity, recoverability, and user experience; define and track SLAs/SLOs for latency, throughput, backup success, restore times, and replication health.
Lead major incident management, root-cause analysis, and corrective and preventive actions; develop and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and operational procedures with continuous-improvement loops.
Drive storage observability, monitoring, and performance optimization, and integrate platforms with enterprise tooling, including ServiceNow, CMDB, and observability platforms.
Lead automation initiatives using AI tools, Infrastructure as Code, and scripting, including Ansible, Terraform, Python, and PowerShell; automate provisioning, quotas, snapshots, replication, and policy enforcement while promoting self-service, standardized templates, and governance guardrails.
Own capacity planning, forecasting, cloud FinOps alignment, and TCO optimization; manage vendor relationships, contracts, renewals, RFPs, technology evaluations, and lifecycle management, including upgrades, refreshes, and decommissioning.
Manage and mentor onshore and offshore engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and succession planning; foster reliability, automation, documentation, and partnership.
Act as the storage SME across Engineering, IT, InfoSec, Compliance, and Data teams; partner with application owners and communicate technical strategy, risks, and outcomes to executive leadership.