Enterprise Server & Storage Lead (Hybrid Cloud)

Alvarez & Marsal; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking a Server & Storage Engineering leader to drive enterprise compute and storage modernization across legacy to cloud. You will lead assessment, consolidation, and retirement programs, shaping rationalization strategies, and coordinating multi-cloud workload placement.

Strong AI-assisted capacity analysis will be part of delivery. Ideal candidates have 8–12+ years in enterprise server/storage engineering, with consulting experience, and are willing to travel up to 80%.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of professional experience in enterprise server and storage engineering.
• Experience leading server consolidation or legacy platform migration programs.
• Deep understanding of mainframe economics and modernization trade-offs.
• Federal infrastructure experience preferred - deep transformation experience in regulated industries can substitute.
• Bachelor's degree required; vendor certifications valued.
• Comfortable with travel up to 80%.
• Full-time, contract, and project-based engagements available.

Responsibilities

• Lead server and storage assessments - inventory analysis, utilization profiling, age/EOL mapping, and platform rationalization.
• Develop legacy platform retirement roadmaps (mainframe, SPARC, Itanium) with clear decommission timelines, migration paths, and risk mitigation.
• Analyze resource utilization patterns to identify rightsizing and consolidation opportunities.
• Design target-state compute and storage architectures balancing cost, performance, availability, and security requirements.
• Assess workload placement options across on-premises, private cloud, and commercial cloud for compute and storage workloads.
• Integrate findings into A&M's broader engagement scope and deliverables.
• Support practice development through internal training, thought leadership, and people development.

Skills

Enterprise server architecture

Storage architecture

Server consolidation

Hybrid infrastructure design

Kubernetes scaling

AI-assisted capacity

Multi-cloud workload

Education

Bachelor's degree

IBM certification

Dell/EMC certification

NetApp certification

VMware certification

Tools

VMware

NetApp

Dell EMC

IBM Mainframe tooling

Job description

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking a Server & Storage Engineering leader to drive enterprise compute and storage modernization across legacy to cloud. You will lead assessment, consolidation, and retirement programs, shaping rationalization strategies, and coordinating multi-cloud workload placement.

Strong AI-assisted capacity analysis will be part of delivery. Ideal candidates have 8–12+ years in enterprise server/storage engineering, with consulting experience, and are willing to travel up to 80%.