Storage Engineering Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

1d • Remote

About The Position

Storage Engineering Manager This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: Job Description Leads a team responsible for the design, delivery, reliability, and lifecycle management of storage platforms and services (e.g., block/file/object storage, storage software/firmware, and/or storage infrastructure). Owns technical execution, people leadership, operational excellence, and cross-functional alignment to deliver roadmap commitments with high quality and customer-impact focus.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 8+ years in storage, systems, platform, or infrastructure engineering (software and/or hardware), including end-to-end delivery of production systems.
• 3+ years of people management experience leading engineers (hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development).
• Strong fundamentals in at least two of the following: distributed systems, Linux internals, networking, filesystems, storage protocols, performance engineering, or systems reliability.
• Experience delivering and operating storage platforms (e.g., block/file/object) with defined SLAs/SLOs, instrumentation/telemetry, and on-call/incident response practices.
• Experience with modern engineering workflows: source control, CI/CD, automated testing, code review, and release management.
• Working knowledge of security practices relevant to storage systems (e.g., threat modeling, secure SDLC, vulnerability management/CVEs, access control, encryption at rest/in transit).
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders; produce crisp status, risks, and decision logs.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with one or more storage technologies: Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, Ceph, DAOS, ZFS, NVMe-oF, iSCSI, NFS/SMB, S3-compatible object storage.
• Experience with Kubernetes storage (CSI), containerized storage services, and cloud/hybrid storage architectures.
• Background in performance benchmarking and tuning (IOPS, throughput, latency), including workload characterization and capacity planning.
• Experience driving architecture modularity and standard interfaces across components/teams.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams and/or global follow-the-sun operations.
• Familiarity with program management practices (WBS, Gantt, dependency/risk tracking) and requirements refinement processes.
• Master’s degree in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Deliver roadmap outcomes: plan and execute releases/projects across storage software and/or hardware, meeting schedule, quality gates, and customer commitments.
• Technical leadership: guide architecture and design reviews; drive engineering best practices for reliability, performance, scalability, maintainability, and security.
• Operational excellence: establish and continuously improve engineering processes (Agile execution, requirements refinement, work breakdown structures, risk/dependency tracking, and metrics-based decision making).
• Quality & compliance: ensure robust test strategy, automation, and release readiness; drive timely remediation of critical defects, CVEs, and customer-impact issues.
• Incident and escalation management: lead structured response for customer escalations, postmortems/root-cause analysis, and corrective/preventive actions.
• Cross-functional collaboration: partner with product management, program management, QA, release engineering, SRE/ops, security, and field/customer teams to align scope, priorities, and delivery.
• People leadership: hire, onboard, coach, and develop engineers and tech leads; set goals, provide feedback, support career growth, and build a culture of accountability and inclusion.
• Resource and budget planning: manage capacity, staffing plans, and vendor/contractor engagement as needed; balance sustaining work with innovation.
• Vendor/open-source engagement: manage dependencies on third-party components, upstream communities, and vendors; evaluate build vs. buy decisions.
• Documentation and readiness: ensure engineering produces clear functional specs, runbooks, and operational documentation to support deployment and supportability.

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees