Senior Manager, Storage Engineering
Core
Lead petabyte-scale storage deployments and lifecycle management for NVIDIA's internal data centers and cloud providers, ensuring high-performance infrastructure for AI, HPC, and chip design workloads.
Role type
Senior Manager, Storage Engineering
Builds
Petabyte-scale storage infrastructure (on-prem and cloud) serving Hardware Engineering, AI/ML Research, and Manufacturing teams.
Domain
Enterprise Storage Systems, Data Center Infrastructure, High-Performance Computing
Required skills
Enterprise storage protocols (NVMe-oF, NFS, SMB, S3, GPFS, Lustre), Multi-vendor storage deployment (NetApp, Pure Storage, Cloudian, DDN), Storage hardware internals (NVMe/SAS/SATA drives, controllers, enclosures), Data center networking (ToR switches, fiber/copper, SFP/QSFP), Configuration management (Ansible), Observability (Prometheus, Grafana), Python/Bash scripting, Vendor relationship management, Team leadership and mentorship.
Preferred skills
Kubernetes storage integrations (CSI, StorageClass), HPC storage tuning (parallel file systems, job schedulers like Slurm/LSF), Modern storage tech (NVMe, RDMA, DPUs), AI/ML workload storage scaling.
Technologies
NetApp ONTAP/StorageGRID, Pure Storage FlashArray/FlashBlade, Cloudian HyperStore, DDN EXAScaler, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Bash, AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, NVMe, RDMA, Kubernetes, Slurm, LSF.
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end storage deployment lifecycle from capacity planning to production hand-off; Engineer automation pipelines integrating storage with CMDB and observability stacks; Optimize data center efficiency (PUE, drive density, rack space); Develop self-service dashboards for capacity tracking; Coordinate cross-domain capacity planning with networking and compute teams; Manage hardware refresh and EOL cycles; Recruit and mentor storage deployment engineers; Partner with security/architecture on new storage tech POCs; Govern data lifecycle management policies.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people management
