Early Career: IT Infrastructure - Storage Engineer
Texas Instruments · Dallas, TX, United States ·
- Category
- Devops
- Experience
- 3+ years
Change the world. Love your job.
In this role you will:
Architecture & Strategy
- Define and own the enterprise storage architecture strategy, roadmap, and standards across SAN, NAS, Object Storage, and Software-Defined Storage platforms
- Lead the evaluation, selection, and adoption of emerging storage technologies
- Architect multi-site, globally distributed storage solutions with disaster recovery, business continuity, and high availability requirements
- Establish storage capacity planning models, performance benchmarking, and TCO analysis methodologies
- Drive storage infrastructure modernization initiatives and technology refresh cycles
Technical Leadership
- Design complex storage solutions for enterprise-scale deployments supporting diverse workloads including databases, virtualization, containerization, HPC, AI/ML, and big data analytics
- Lead architecture reviews, provide technical guidance, and make design decisions for critical storage projects
- Establish best practices, design patterns, and reference architectures for storage infrastructure
- Define SLAs, performance metrics, and operational KPIs for storage services
- Evaluate and architect storage automation, orchestration, and self-service capabilities using Infrastructure-as-Code principles
Technology Expertise
- Architect solutions leveraging:
- Enterprise SAN/NAS platforms (Hitachi, NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage)
- Object Storage systems (S3-compatible platforms including HCP, ECS, NetApp GRID)
- Software-Defined Storage and hyper-converged infrastructure
- Storage networking (FC, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, RDMA)
- Data protection technologies (snapshots, replication, backup/recovery)
- Storage virtualization and tiering strategies
- Architect data lifecycle management, retention policies, and compliance frameworks
Collaboration & Governance
- Partner with application teams, database administrators, virtualization team and infrastructure teams to understand requirements and design optimal solutions
- Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure storage solutions meet regulatory and data governance requirements
- Work with vendors on technology roadmaps, proof-of-concepts, and strategic partnerships
- Present architecture proposals and business cases to senior leadership and steering committees
- Mentor storage administrators and SREs, providing technical training and knowledge transfer
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Research emerging technologies including NVMe and AI-driven storage management
- Drive automation initiatives to reduce operational overhead and improve service delivery
- Establish performance optimization strategies and cost optimization frameworks
- Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and pilot programs for new storage technologies
Minimum Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep expertise across multiple storage platforms and technologies
- Experience designing storage solutions supporting petabytes in production environments
- Proven success leading large-scale storage transformation and modernization programs
- Background in high-performance computing (HPC) storage or AI/ML data platform architectures
- Proficient in data protection strategies and storage management/monitoring tools
- Designs scalable, high-availability storage solutions including multi-site DR architectures with optimized RPO/RTO
- Experienced in capacity planning, storage tiering, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible)
-Solid understanding of virtualization, containerization (VMware, Kubernetes, OpenShift), and container storage (CSI drivers)
- Working knowledge of database storage needs, Linux/Windows OS, and scripting/automation (Bash, APIs, CI/CD)
- Communicates complex technical concepts clearly to executive audiences and cross-functional stakeholders
- Skilled at translating business needs into technical architecture and mentoring technical teams
- Strategic, innovative thinker with strong business acumen and a data-driven approach to problem-solving
- Certifications
- Storage vendors(Hitachi Vantara, NetApp NCIE, Dell EMC, Pure Storage)
- Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)