Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Senior Manager IT Storage Engineering

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • $130K — $180K *
San Jose, CA 95123In-Person
Information Technology
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Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of leadership experience in enterprise storage and data protection
  • Strong communication skills for translating technical concepts to executives
  • Ability to manage and mentor high-performing engineering teams
  • Effective stakeholder management across various departments
  • Experience in strategic thinking and innovative problem-solving
  • Customer-centric mindset focusing on service reliability

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the storage platform roadmap for EDA and enterprise workloads
  • Define reference architectures for various storage types and data protection
  • Lead design reviews for high-performance EDA workflows
  • Establish standards for data retention, archiving, and disaster recovery
  • Design storage solutions for AI workloads with high throughput
  • Ensure compliance with security and governance standards in storage solutions
  • Drive automation initiatives utilizing AI and Infrastructure-as-Code

Benefits

  • Comprehensive AMD benefits package
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Support for employee well-being and work-life balance
  • Hybrid work environment promoting flexibility
  • Collaborative and innovative company culture
Full Job Description
THE ROLE:

Lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise storage and data protection platforms supporting both EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and corporate workloads. This role is responsible for defining scalable, high-performance, and resilient storage solutions across datacenter and cloud environments, while ensuring alignment with business objectives, security, compliance, and cost optimization. The position also oversees operational excellence, innovation (including AI-scale workloads), and engineering team leadership.

THE PERSON:
  • Strong leadership and people management skills with the ability to mentor and grow high-performing teams
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes for executive stakeholders
  • Collaborative mindset with strong stakeholder management across Engineering, IT, Security, and Compliance
  • Strategic thinker with a balance of innovation and pragmatic execution
  • Problem-solving orientation with a focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence
  • Customer-focused approach with an emphasis on user experience and service reliability

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Own and evolve the storage platform roadmap, balancing EDA performance requirements with enterprise resilience, compliance, and cost goals
  • Define and govern reference architectures across file, block, object storage, and data protection (on-prem and cloud)
  • Lead storage design reviews for EDA workflows, including metadata-intensive and high IOPS/low latency workloads (build/test/simulation/regression flows)
  • Establish standard patterns for tiering, archiving, retention, immutability (WORM), and disaster recovery (RPO/RTO, replication, failover)
  • Design solutions supporting AI workloads (including >5TB/s training throughput)
  • Ensure storage segmentation and isolation aligned with performance and security requirements
  • Align all architectures with security, encryption, RBAC, audit logging, and data governance standards
  • Own end-to-end storage and backup service delivery (availability, performance, capacity, recoverability, user experience)
  • Lead major incident management, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive actions
  • Define and track SLAs/SLOs (latency, throughput, backup success, restore times, replication health)
  • Develop and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and operational procedures with continuous improvement loops
  • Drive storage observability, monitoring, and performance optimization
  • Lead automation initiatives using AI tools, Infrastructure-as-Code, and scripting (Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell)
  • Enable automation across provisioning, quotas, snapshots, replication, and policy enforcement
  • Promote self-service models, standardized templates, and governance guardrails
  • Integrate storage platforms with enterprise tooling (ServiceNow, CMDB, observability platforms)
  • Foster an engineering culture focused on reliability, automation, documentation, and partnership
  • Own capacity planning, forecasting, and cost optimization (including cloud FinOps alignment)
  • Manage vendor relationships, contracts, renewals, RFPs, and technology evaluations
  • Drive total cost of ownership (TCO) optimization across solutions
  • Oversee lifecycle management including upgrades, refreshes, and decommissioning
  • Manage and mentor engineering teams (onshore/offshore), including hiring, performance management, and succession planning
  • Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for storage across Engineering, IT, InfoSec, Compliance, and Data teams
  • Partner with application owners to optimize performance, data placement, and protection strategies
  • Communicate technical strategy, risks, and outcomes effectively to executive leadership


PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
  • Experience in enterprise storage and data protection (file, block, object)
  • engineering team management experience
  • Proven expertise in high-performance storage solutions for EDA, HPC, AI/ML workloads
  • Deep knowledge of NAS/SAN architectures, high-availability design, and storage networking (FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, S3)
  • Strong experience with backup and disaster recovery (snapshots, replication, immutability, air-gap strategies)
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms (e.g., NetApp ONTAP, Dell PowerScale/Isilon, HPE, IBM, VAST, WEKA, etc.)
  • Experience with open, software-defined, and vendor-neutral storage ecosystems
  • Familiarity with data protection platforms (Rubrik, Commvault, etc.)
  • Experience with public cloud storage (Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI), including lifecycle policies and replication
  • Strong understanding of observability, performance tuning, and troubleshooting (IOPS, latency, throughput, congestion, multipathing)
  • Experience supporting EDA tools (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA) or similar IO-intensive systems
  • Familiarity with Linux environments, NFS tuning, and identity integration (AD/LDAP)
  • Exposure to security and compliance frameworks (SOX, ISO, NIST, data retention, legal hold)
  • Experience in change, incident, and problem management processes

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Master's degree is an asset


This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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Size
15,500 employees
Market Cap
$100.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$2.4 billion
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+30.9%
Revenue
$9.7 billion
NASDAQ
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