Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Become a part of our caring community   The Principal Storage Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and advancing the enterprise storage architecture and long-term data infrastructure strategy. This role establishes standards, develops five-year technology roadmaps, and designs secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective storage platforms for business-critical, analytics, and artificial intelligence workloads. The engineer serves as the organization’s storage subject-matter expert and partners with infrastructure, cloud, security, data, application, architecture, finance, and vendor teams to translate business requirements into sustainable technology capabilities. The Principal Storage Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and advancing the enterprise storage architecture and long-term data infrastructure strategy. This role establishes standards, develops five-year technology roadmaps, and designs secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective storage platforms for business-critical, analytics, and artificial intelligence workloads. The engineer serves as the organization’s storage subject-matter expert and partners with infrastructure, cloud, security, data, application, architecture, finance, and vendor teams to translate business requirements into sustainable technology capabilities.

Define the enterprise storage vision, reference architecture, engineering standards, and five-year roadmap across block, file, object, software-defined, and hybrid storage services.   Lead architecture decisions for on-premises AI infrastructure, including high-throughput and low-latency storage for model training, inference, data pipelines, GPU platforms, and large unstructured datasets.   Develop data placement, lifecycle, tiering, retention, encryption, immutability, replication, archival, and secure disposition patterns aligned with data governance, privacy, regulatory, and business requirements.   Design highly available and recoverable storage solutions that meet performance, capacity, resilience, disaster recovery, and service-level objectives.   Create workload-aligned storage service tiers and reusable architecture patterns for virtualized, containerized, database, analytics, and AI environments.   Own capacity forecasting, performance modeling, technology refresh planning, and financial analysis to optimize capital and operating expenses.   Evaluate emerging storage technologies and conduct proofs of concept, benchmarks, risk assessments, and total-cost-of-ownership analyses.   Provide technical leadership for platform modernization, migrations, consolidations, upgrades, and decommissioning initiatives with minimal business disruption.   Establish observability, automation, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and self-service capabilities that improve reliability and reduce operational effort.   Partner with cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and data governance teams to strengthen controls, evidence, recoverability, and ransomware resilience.   Serve as the escalation point for complex storage performance, availability, interoperability, and data integrity issues; lead root-cause analysis and permanent corrective actions.   Develop architecture documentation, standards, decision records, executive presentations, and investment recommendations for technical and business leadership.   Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and raise engineering practices across storage, backup, compute, network, cloud, and platform teams.   Manage strategic technical relationships with Dell Technologies, Pure Storage, NetApp, IBM, and other infrastructure partners, including roadmap alignment, solution validation, support escalation, and commercial input.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.   Typically 10 or