Principal Infrastructure Engineer

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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.

Key Responsibilities

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Define the enterprise storage vision, reference architecture, engineering standards, and five-year roadmap across block, file, object, software-defined, and hybrid storage services.

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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.

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Develop data placement, lifecycle, tiering, retention, encryption, immutability, replication, archival, and secure disposition patterns aligned with data governance, privacy, regulatory, and business requirements.

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Design highly available and recoverable storage solutions that meet performance, capacity, resilience, disaster recovery, and service-level objectives.

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Create workload-aligned storage service tiers and reusable architecture patterns for virtualized, containerized, database, analytics, and AI environments.

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Own capacity forecasting, performance modeling, technology refresh planning, and financial analysis to optimize capital and operating expenses.

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Evaluate emerging storage technologies and conduct proofs of concept, benchmarks, risk assessments, and total-cost-of-ownership analyses.

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Provide technical leadership for platform modernization, migrations, consolidations, upgrades, and decommissioning initiatives with minimal business disruption.

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Establish observability, automation, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and self-service capabilities that improve reliability and reduce operational effort.

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Partner with cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and data governance teams to strengthen controls, evidence, recoverability, and ransomware resilience.

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Serve as the escalation point for complex storage performance, availability, interoperability, and data integrity issues; lead root-cause analysis and permanent corrective actions.

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Develop architecture documentation, standards, decision records, executive presentations, and investment recommendations for technical and business leadership.

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Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and raise engineering practices across storage, backup, compute, network, cloud, and platform teams.

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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.

Required Qualifications

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Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related discipline, or e