Server & Storage Engineering Lead, Digital & Technology Services

Alvarez & Marsal; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 135,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

Flexible spending accounts

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Life, AD&D, disability coverages

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking a Server & Storage Engineering leader to guide enterprise compute and storage modernization. You will drive server consolidation, storage optimization, and multi-cloud design across mainframe and x86 environments.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted capacity analysis, scalable architectures, and cost-efficient strategies, with extensive travel required for client engagements. This is a full-time opportunity within A&M's Corporate Performance Improvement practice.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of enterprise server and storage engineering experience with consulting or advisory delivery.
• Bachelor's degree required; vendor certifications valued (IBM, Dell/EMC, NetApp, VMware).
• Willingness to travel up to 80%.

Responsibilities

• Lead server and storage assessments, inventory analysis and platform rationalisation.
• Develop retirement roadmaps for legacy platforms with migration paths and risk mitigation.
• Analyse resource utilisation to identify rightsizing and consolidation opportunities.
• Design target-state compute/storage architectures balancing cost, performance, availability, and security.
• Assess workload placement options across on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud.
• Integrate findings into A&M's engagement scope and deliverables.
• Support practice development through internal training and thought leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Enterprise compute

Storage optimization

Server consolidation

AI-assisted analysis

Multi-cloud

Kubernetes

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Vendor certifications (IBM, Dell/EMC, NetApp, VMware)

Tools

VMware

Dell/EMC

NetApp

Job description

About Alvarez & Marsal

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with over 10,000 entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals in over 40 countries. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work - guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity - are why our people love working at A&M.

Description

About Alvarez & Marsal

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with over 10,000 entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals in over 40 countries. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work - guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity - are why our people love working at A&M.

The Team

Alvarez & Marsal's Corporate Performance Improvement practice is looking for a Server & Storage Engineering leader with deep expertise in enterprise compute and storage platforms, legacy system modernization, and infrastructure rationalization. This role requires someone who has driven server consolidation and storage optimization at enterprise scale - across mainframe, midrange, and x86 environments.

Experience Should Include

• Enterprise server platform architecture - x86, IBM z (mainframe), Unisys, P Series, SPARC, Itanium
• Storage platform architecture - SAN, NAS, object storage, tiered storage design, and capacity optimization
• Server consolidation, virtualization strategy, and legacy platform decommission planning
• Storage growth management, data tiering, and decommission targeting
• Hybrid infrastructure design - bridging on-premises compute/storage with cloud-based equivalents
• Federal infrastructure environments preferred - experience managing classified compute/storage platforms is a strong advantage given the complexity of multi-classification environments
• AI-assisted infrastructure analysis, capacity modelling, and optimisation - must demonstrate active use of AI tools in delivery; AI fluency is required for this role
• Design and implement Kubernetes-native auto-scaling architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Expert-level experience with HPA, VPA, and event-driven scaling (KEDA). Proven ability to balance predictive pre-scaling with reactive real-time capacity adjustments, optimising sub-second response times while maintaining cost efficiency. Strong background in multi-cloud workload orchestration and resource right-sizing

How You Will Contribute

• Lead server and storage assessments - inventory analysis, utilisation profiling, age/EOL mapping, and platform rationalisation
• Develop legacy platform retirement roadmaps (mainframe, SPARC, Itanium) with clear decommission timelines, migration paths, and risk mitigation
• Analyse resource utilisation patterns (CPU, memory, I/O, storage capacity) 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

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of professional experience in enterprise server and storage engineering, with consulting or advisory delivery
• Demonstrated experience leading server consolidation or legacy platform migration programmes at enterprise scale
• Deep understanding of mainframe economics and modernisation trade-offs (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire)
• Federal infrastructure experience preferred - deep transformation experience in regulated industries can substitute
• Bachelor's degree required; relevant vendor certifications (IBM, Dell/EMC, NetApp, VMware) valued
• Comfortable with travel up to 80%
• Full-time, contract, and project-based engagements available

What Distinguishes a Great Candidate

Has personally driven legacy platform retirement programmes - not just assessed them. Understands mainframe-to-cloud economics and can articulate the trade-offs to executive audiences. Brings AI-assisted capacity analysis and optimisation modelling as a standard part of the delivery toolkit. Knowledge of extinction risk on legacy platforms is real - this candidate has the institutional knowledge that is disappearing from the market.

Your journey at A&M

We recognise that our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we prioritise an employee experience that fosters each person's unique professional and personal development. Our robust performance development process promotes continuous learning, rewards your contributions, and fosters a culture of meritocracy. With top-notch training and on-the-job learning opportunities, you can acquire new skills and advance your career. We prioritise your well-being, providing benefits and resources to support you on your personal journey. Our people consistently highlight the growth opportunities, our unique, entrepreneurial culture, and the fun we have together as their favourite aspects of working at A&M. The possibilities are endless for high-performing and passionate professionals. Regular employees working 30 or more hours per week are also entitled to participate in Alvarez & Marsal Holdings' fringe benefits consisting of healthcare plans, flexible spending and savings accounts, life, AD&D, and disability coverages at rates determined periodically as well as a 401(k) retirement savings plan. Provided the eligibility requirements are met, employees will also receive an annual discretionary contribution to their 401(k) retirement savings plan from Alvarez & Marsal. Additionally, employees are eligible for paid time off including vacation, personal days, seventy-two (72) hours of sick time (prorated for part time employees), ten federal holidays, one floating holiday, and parental leave. The amount of vacation and personal days available varies based on tenure and role type.

Thesalaryrange for Manager is $135,000- $160,000annually and Director is $150,000- $210,000annually, dependent on several variables including but not limited to education, experience, skills, and geography. In addition, A&M offers a discretionary bonus programme which is based on a number of factors, including individual and firm performance.