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Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuityand a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’lldiscover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges-striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career.\nTHE ROLE:\nLead 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.\nTHE PERSON:\nStrong leadership and people management skills with the ability to mentor and grow high-performing teams\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes for executive stakeholders\nCollaborative mindset with strong stakeholder management across Engineering, IT, Security, and Compliance\nStrategic thinker with a balance of innovation and pragmatic execution\nProblem-solving orientation with a focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence\nCustomer-focused approach with an emphasis on user experience and service reliability\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES:\nOwn and evolve the storage platform roadmap and reference architectures across file, block, object storage, and data protection, balancing EDA performance requirements with enterprise resilience, compliance, and cost goals across on-premises and cloud environments.\nLead storage design reviews for EDA workflows, including metadata-intensive and high-IOPS/low-latency build, test, simulation, and regression workloads, and design solutions supporting AI workloads, including >5 TB/s training throughput.\nEstablish standard patterns for tiering, archiving, retention, immutability (WORM), and disaster recovery, including RPO/RTO, replication, and failover.\nEnsure storage segmentation and isolation align with performance and security requirements, and align all architectures with security, encryption, RBAC, audit logging, and data governance standards.\nOwn end-to-end storage and backup service delivery, including availability, performance, capacity, recoverability, and user experience; define and track SLAs/SLOs for latency, throughput, backup success, restore times, and replication health.\nLead major incident management, root-cause analysis, and corrective and preventive actions; develop and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and operational procedures with continuous-improvement loops.\nDrive storage observability, monitoring, and performance optimization, and integrate storage platforms with enterprise tooling, including ServiceNow, CMDB, and observability platforms.\nLead automation initiatives using AI tools, Infrastructure as Code, and scripting, including Ansible, Terraform, Python, and PowerShell; enable automation across provisioning, quotas, snapshots, replication, and policy enforcement while promoting self-service models, standardized templates, and governance guardrails.\nOwn capacity planning, forecasting, cloud FinOps alignment, and TCO optimization; manage vendor relationships, contracts, renewals, RFPs, technology evaluations, and lifecycle management, including upgrades, refreshes, and decommissioning.\nManage and mentor onshore and offshore engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and succession planning; foster a culture of reliability, automation, documentation, and partnership; act as the storage SME across Engineering, IT, InfoSec, Compliance, and Data teams; partner with application owners and communicate technical strategy, risks, and outcomes to executive leadership.\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE:\nExperience in enterprise storage and data protection across file, block, and object storage, including open, software-defined, and vendor-neutral storage ecosystems.\nProven expertise in high-performance storage solutions for EDA, HPC, and AI/ML workloads, including supporting EDA tools such as Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA, or similar I/O-intensive systems.\nDeep knowledge of NAS/SAN architectures, high-availability design, and storage networking, including FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and S3.\nStrong experience with backup and disaster recovery, including snapshots, replication, immutability, and air-gap strategies, with familiarity with data protection platforms such as Rubrik and Commvault.\nHands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms such as NetApp ONTAP, Dell PowerScale/Isilon, HPE, IBM, VAST, and WEKA, as well as public cloud storage across Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI.\nStrong understanding of observability, performance tuning, and troubleshooting, including IOPS, latency, throughput, congestion, and multipathing; familiarity with Linux environments, NFS tuning, and AD/LDAP integration.\nEngineering team-management experience, with exposure to security and compliance frameworks, including SOX, ISO, NIST, data retention, and legal hold, and experience with change, incident, and problem-management processes.\nACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)\nMaster’s degree is an asset\nALTERNATE LOCATION:\nAustin, TX\nThis role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.\nBenefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.\nAMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.\nAMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.\n\nThis posting is for an existing vacancy.\nTHE ROLE:\nLead 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. 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