Senior Manager, Storage Engineering - CA, Santa Clara, United States

Originally posted 27 August 2026 by the employer.

NVIDIA's IT Storage Engineering team architects, designs, deploys, and manages petabyte-scale storage infrastructure.

About the role

This role involves leading a team to manage the full deployment lifecycle of petabyte-scale storage infrastructure across on-premises data centers and cloud service providers. The team delivers reliable, high-performance storage solutions for demanding workloads in hardware engineering, chip design, software engineering, manufacturing, AI/ML research, and IT operations.

What you'll do

• Lead petabyte-scale storage deployments across NVIDIA's on-premises data centers and major CSPs (AWS, Azure, GCP), owning the end-to-end lifecycle from design and procurement through physical installation, configuration, and production hand-off.
• Engineer and maintain automation pipelines that integrate deployed storage systems with interdependent tooling, including CMDB, configuration management platforms, and observability stacks.
• Define and drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on data center efficiency, optimizing DC power consumption and minimizing rack space footprint.
• Develop and maintain self-service tools and dashboards for internal customers to track real-time storage capacity availability, consumption trends, and projected growth.
• Manage vendor relationships and lead hardware refresh and EOL planning cycles across the storage portfolio.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow a team of storage deployment engineers; establish engineering standards, runbooks, and on-call practices.

What you'll need

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Storage Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of overall experience in large-scale storage architecture, operations, production engineering, or infrastructure.
• 6+ years of people management or technical leadership experience with storage, infrastructure, or site reliability teams.
• Deep, protocol-level knowledge of enterprise storage systems spanning block (/NVMe-oF), file (NFS, SMB/CIFS), object (S3-compatible), and high-performance parallel file systems (GPFS/IBM Spectrum Scale, Lustre).
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating solutions from multiple major storage vendors, including NetApp (ONTAP, StorageGRID), Pure Storage (FlashArray, FlashBlade), Cloudian HyperStore, and DDN (EXAScaler, A³I).
• Solid understanding of storage hardware internals (drive types, endurance profiles, controller architectures, shelf/enclosure design, cabling standards, failure domain planning).
• Working knowledge of bare-metal server hardware (rack units, HBA/NIC selection, BMC/iDRAC/iLO, firmware management) and data center network hardware relevant to storage connectivity.
• In-depth expertise in observability tooling (Prometheus exporters, Grafana dashboards, alerting rulesets).
• Strong configuration management skills using Ansible (playbook authoring, role design, inventory management, Ansible Tower/AAP).
• Scripting and automation proficiency in Python and/or Bash; experience integrating with REST APIs.
• Proven track record of managing large-scale, multi-vendor storage environments (100 PB+).

Skills: petabyte-scale storage, data centers, storage architecture, NFS, SMB/CIFS, S3-compatible