Senior Server & Storage Engineering Lead - Multi-Cloud AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

401(k) retirement

Paid time off

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking a Server & Storage Engineering leader to drive modernization across enterprise compute and storage platforms, including mainframe, SPARC, and x86 environments.

Responsibilities include designing rationalization, retirement roadmaps, and multi-cloud workload placement with a focus on cost, performance, and security. Travel up to 80% and a mix of full-time, contract, and project-based engagements are possible.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years in enterprise server and storage engineering, with consulting or advisory delivery.
• Demonstrated experience leading server consolidation or legacy platform migration programs at enterprise scale.
• Deep understanding of mainframe economics and modernization trade-offs (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire).
• Federal infrastructure experience preferred - deep transformation experience in regulated industries can substitute.
• Bachelor's degree required; vendor certifications (IBM, Dell/EMC, NetApp, VMware) valued.

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 decommission timelines and migration paths.
• Analyze resource utilization patterns (CPU, memory, I/O, storage) to identify rightsizing and consolidation opportunities.
• Design target-state compute and storage architectures balancing cost, performance, availability and security.
• 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

Server consolidation

Storage engineering

Mainframe modernization

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

AI-assisted analytics

Federal infrastructure

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

IBM

Dell EMC

NetApp

VMware

Job description

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking a Server & Storage Engineering leader to drive modernization across enterprise compute and storage platforms, including mainframe, SPARC, and x86 environments.

Responsibilities include designing rationalization, retirement roadmaps, and multi-cloud workload placement with a focus on cost, performance, and security. Travel up to 80% and a mix of full-time, contract, and project-based engagements are possible.