Lead Engineer - Storage Admin

Lead Engineer - Storage Admin

Lead Engineer – Storage Administration

Job Purpose

This is a senior-level hands-on storage engineering role responsible for the implementation, operations, optimization, and lifecycle management of enterprise storage environments. The role serves as the technical lead and escalation point for complex customer issues while also contributing to solution design and architecture where required. The Lead Engineer ensures storage platforms are stable, performant, secure, and scalable while supporting customer projects, migrations, upgrades, and operational continuity across multiple environments.

Essential Functions

• Serve as a senior technical resource and escalation point for Storage Engineers I–II across delivery projects
• Perform advanced troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and performance tuning across multi-vendor storage platforms
• Develop and review high-quality architecture diagrams and detailed design documents
• Lead and execute storage provisioning, migrations, upgrades, etc.
• Oversee and execute integration, performance, scalability, and failover testing for enterprise systems
• Provide technical leadership and guidance during customer meetings, project planning sessions, and solution design workshops
• Ensure successful deployment, knowledge transfer, and operational handoff for complex solutions
• Create and maintain logical and physical storage designs to support new implementations and expansions
• Participate in a 24 x On Call rotation

Experience Requirements

• 8–10+ years of experience in storage engineering, systems engineering, or infrastructure architecture roles
• Proven experience architecting and deploying, maintaining enterprise-class storage, compute, and virtualization solutions
• Strong customer-facing experience in delivery, consulting, or presales engineering environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical projects or mentoring junior engineers
• Prior involvement in multi-site, hybrid-cloud, or large-scale enterprise infrastructures preferred

Education

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience
• Certifications are preferred (e.g., Net App NCIE, Dell EMC Proven Professional, Pure Storage Specialist)

Technical Skills & Senior-Level Competencies

Enterprise Storage Technologies

Advanced-level experience designing and optimizing multiple enterprise platforms:

• Dell EMC: VNX, Unity, Xtrem
  
  IO, X2, VSA, Vblock, Power Max, Isilon
• Hitachi: HCP Cloud Scale, VSP One Block, e590
• Net App: FAS, AFF, Solid Fire, HCI (cluster architecture, replication, data protection)
• HPE:
  Nimble Storage (multi-site, replication, performance tuning), 3
  
  Par, Alletra
• Strong understanding of Cisco MDS and Brocade Fiber switching architectures for storage environments
• Pure Storage:
  Flash Array, Flash Blade (architecture, capacity planning, snapshot/replication design)

Virtualization & Compute (Helpful but not required)

• Experience in VMware technologies: vCenter, vSphere, NSX, SRM, vSAN, Horizon, vRealize Automation/Operations (architecture, multi-site design, upgrades).
• Experience in Cisco UCS architecture, Fabric Interconnect configuration, service profiles, and multi-domain

Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Proven ability to lead complex technical projects and mentor junior team members.
• Excellent analytical and diagnostic skills for large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong documentation and architecture diagramming abilities (Visio, etc).
• Exceptional communication and customer-facing consulting skills.
• Ability to balance technical depth with project delivery requirements.
• Capability to function independently with minimal guidance in a dynamic, project-based environment.