M&T Bank Corporation

Technical Engineer - Storage Engineering

M&T Bank Corporation$116K — $194K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 8 years of education/work experience in systems design or management
  • Hands-on with enterprise storage platforms like NetApp and Dell EMC
  • Experience with virtualization (VMware) and hybrid cloud storage
  • Basic understanding of security and compliance for data storage
  • Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable enterprise storage solutions with cross-team collaboration.
  • Provision and maintain SAN, NAS, and object storage platforms in redundant environments.
  • Monitor and optimize storage system performance for critical applications.
  • Design architectures for data protection, disaster recovery, and resilience.
  • Enforce security controls on storage systems aligned with enterprise standards.

Benefits

  • Generous health, welfare, and retirement benefits
  • 401(k) match at 5%
  • Flexible work arrangements and work-life balance
  • 25 days PTO plus 12 paid holidays per year
  • 40 paid volunteer hours annually.
Full Job Description
Overview
Serves as a senior specialist within Enterprise Storage Engineering, responsible for the design, implementation, optimization, and operational integrity of storage platforms supporting critical M&T workloads. This role focuses on ensuring highly available, secure, and performant storage solutions across SAN, NAS, and object storage environments.

Primary Responsibilities
  • Work closely with Technology management, senior engineers, and platform teams to design, implement, and operate scalable enterprise storage solutions that meet current and future demands.
  • Provision, configure, and maintain enterprise storage platforms including block (SAN), file (NAS), and object (S3-compatible) storage systems in highly available, redundant environments.
  • Monitor, analyze, and tune storage system performance to ensure consistent delivery of high throughput and low latency data access for critical applications.
  • Design and implement storage architectures supporting resilience, disaster recovery, and data protection requirements (e.g., replication, backup, recovery, immutability).
  • Enforce and implement security controls across storage platforms including encryption, access controls, zoning, and authentication mechanisms aligned with enterprise standards.
  • Support infrastructure lifecycle activities adhering to SDLC standards.
  • Perform capacity planning and optimization to ensure efficient utilization of storage resources and proactive scaling aligned to business growth.
  • Develop and maintain automation solutions to streamline storage provisioning, monitoring, and operational processes, reducing manual effort and improving reliability.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex storage-related incidents; lead root cause analysis and implement corrective actions in accordance with incident management procedures.
  • Ensure all storage changes follow established change management processes, with appropriate approvals, documentation, and audit traceability.
  • Coordinate with infrastructure, application, and vendor teams on integrations, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management activities.
  • Regularly engage with business partners and application teams to understand data storage requirements, performance expectations, and recovery objectives (RPO/RTO).
  • Mentor and coach junior engineers; review designs, changes, and operational procedures to ensure adherence to standards and best practices.
  • Maintain deep knowledge of enterprise storage technologies including SAN fabrics, all-flash arrays, replication technologies, and NAS platforms used within M&T environments.
  • Support audit and regulatory activities by providing technical documentation, logs, and evidence for storage configurations and operations.
  • Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, identifying and escalating risks where appropriate.
  • Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
  • Complete other related duties as assigned.

Education and Experience Required
  • Combined minimum of 8 years' higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms (e.g., NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure FlashArray and FlashBlade Storage), SAN fabrics (Cisco/Brocade), and NAS solutions.
  • Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware) and hybrid cloud storage integrations

Education an Experience Preferred
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field preferred.
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in infrastructure engineering with a focus on storage and data protection technologies


Competencies / Technical Skills
  • Advanced knowledge of:
    • SAN/NAS/Object storage architectures
    • Fibre Channel and IP-based storage networking
    • Snapshot, Backup, recovery, and disaster recovery methodologies
    • Storage performance tuning and capacity management
    • Kubernetes containers
  • Experience with automation (e.g., scripting, API-driven workflows, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, Terraform)
  • Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
  • Knowledge of security and compliance requirements for enterprise data storage
  • Ability to translate business requirements into technical storage solutions
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
  • Process-oriented mindset with strong attention to detail
  • Continuous learning mindset aligned to financial services and infrastructure trends


We support our team members with generous benefits.
  • Competitive compensation
  • Health, welfare, and retirement benefits
  • 401(k) match at 5%
  • Work-life balance and flexible work arrangements
  • Banking Officers start with 25 days PTO plus 12 paid holidays
  • 40 hours paid volunteer hours per year
  • Much more. For details, see: M&T Benefits Overview


M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $116,400.00 - $194,000.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate's particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.

Location
Buffalo, New York, United States of America

About M&T Bank Corporation

M&T Bank is a financial holding company headquartered in Buffalo, New York. M&T's principal banking subsidiary, M&T Bank, operates banking offices in New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Trust-related services are provided by M&T's Wilmington Trust-affiliated companies and by M&T Bank. M&T Bank traces its origins to the founding of Manufacturers and Traders Bank in Buffalo, New York. As a result of mergers, acquisitions, and name changes, M&T Bank Corporation's principal bank is now known as Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company or M&T Bank. M&T Bank reorganized under a bank holding company in 1969 called First Empire State Corporation. The name was changed in 1998 to M&T Bank Corporation, whose common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol "MTB."

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$1.3 billion
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1868
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