Technical Engineer – Storage Engineering

Overview

Serves as a senior specialist within Enterprise Storage Engineering, responsible for the design, implementation, optimization, and operational integrity of storage platforms supporting critical M&T workloads. This role focuses on ensuring highly available, secure, and performant storage solutions across SAN, NAS, and object storage environments.

• Work closely with Technology management, senior engineers, and platform teams to design, implement, and operate scalable enterprise storage solutions that meet current and future demands.
• Provision, configure, and maintain enterprise storage platforms including block (SAN), file (NAS), and object (S3-compatible) storage systems in highly available, redundant environments.
• Monitor, analyze, and tune storage system performance to ensure consistent delivery of high throughput and low latency data access for critical applications.
• Design and implement storage architectures supporting resilience, disaster recovery, and data protection requirements (e.g., replication, backup, recovery, immutability).
• Enforce and implement security controls across storage platforms including encryption, access controls, zoning, and authentication mechanisms aligned with enterprise standards.
• Support infrastructure lifecycle activities adhering to SDLC standards.
• Perform capacity planning and optimization to ensure efficient utilization of storage resources and proactive scaling aligned to business growth.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions to streamline storage provisioning, monitoring, and operational processes, reducing manual effort and improving reliability.
• Diagnose and resolve complex storage-related incidents; lead root cause analysis and implement corrective actions in accordance with incident management procedures.
• Ensure all storage changes follow established change management processes, with appropriate approvals, documentation, and audit traceability.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, application, and vendor teams on integrations, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management activities.
• Regularly engage with business partners and application teams to understand data storage requirements, performance expectations, and recovery objectives (RPO/RTO).
• Mentor and coach junior engineers; review designs, changes, and operational procedures to ensure adherence to standards and best practices.
• Maintain deep knowledge of enterprise storage technologies including SAN fabrics, all-flash arrays, replication technologies, and NAS platforms used within M&T environments.
• Support audit and regulatory activities by providing technical documentation, logs, and evidence for storage configurations and operations.
• Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, identifying and escalating risks where appropriate.
• Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Combined minimum of 8 years’ higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture.

Hands‑on experience with enterprise storage platforms (e.g., Net App, Dell EMC, Pure Flash Array and Flash Blade Storage), SAN fabrics (Cisco/Brocade), and NAS solutions.

Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware) and hybrid cloud storage integrations.

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field preferred.

Minimum of 8 years of experience in infrastructure engineering with a focus on storage and data protection technologies.

• Advanced knowledge of SAN/NAS/Object storage architectures
• Fibre Channel and IP-based storage networking
• Snapshot, Backup, recovery, and disaster recovery methodologies
• Storage performance tuning and capacity management
• Kubernetes containers
• Experience with automation (e.g., scripting, API-driven workflows, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, Terraform)
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
• Knowledge of security and compliance requirements for enterprise data storage
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical storage solutions
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast‑paced environment
• Process‑oriented mindset with strong attention to detail
• Continuous learning mindset aligned to financial services and infrastructure trends

• Competitive compensation
• Health, welfare, and retirement benefits
• 401(k) match at 5%
• Work‑life balance and flexible work arrangements
• Banking Officers start with 25 days PTO plus 12 paid holidays
• 40 hours paid volunteer hours per year
• Much more. For details, see: M&T Benefits Overview ()

Buffalo, New York, United States of America

M&T Bank Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, including disabilities and veterans.