Server & Storage Engineering Lead — Hybrid Infra & AI

Alvarez & Marsal; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal in the United States is seeking a Senior Server & Storage Engineering leader to drive enterprise compute and storage modernization across mainframe, midrange, and x86 environments. You will oversee server consolidation, storage optimization, and hybrid infrastructure design to align with business goals.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted capacity analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and advising clients on modernization trade-offs, with travel up to 80%.

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 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

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 (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

Skills

Enterprise server architecture

Storage platform architecture

Server consolidation

Hybrid infrastructure design

AI-assisted infrastructure analysis

Kubernetes autoscaling (HPA/VPA/KEDA)

Education

Bachelor's degree

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

Tools

IBM

Dell/EMC

NetApp

VMware

Job description

Alvarez & Marsal in the United States is seeking a Senior Server & Storage Engineering leader to drive enterprise compute and storage modernization across mainframe, midrange, and x86 environments. You will oversee server consolidation, storage optimization, and hybrid infrastructure design to align with business goals.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted capacity analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and advising clients on modernization trade-offs, with travel up to 80%.