Principal Storage Engineer

Location: Onsite with office presence a minimum of 5 days per week in Alpharetta, Georgia; Bothell, Washington; Dallas, Texas; Plano, Texas; or Atlanta, Georgia. The position is only available in the posted locations. No relocation is offered.

Salary: $155,400.00–$261,100.00 USD annually.

Company

AT&T operates infrastructure engineering environments that support mission-critical business applications and cloud services through highly available storage platforms.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture and strategic direction of enterprise storage platforms, engineering standards, operational practices, modernization initiatives, and technical escalations.
• Design, implement, and support large-scale Fiber Channel SAN fabrics, including zoning, host connectivity, multipathing, redundancy, migrations, and lifecycle management.
• Design and optimize enterprise NAS and file services using NFS and SMB, including allocation, tiering, performance, availability, and scalability.
• Engineer storage networking, performance, capacity, monitoring, dashboards, KPIs, and remediation strategies across enterprise environments.
• Develop automation for provisioning, reporting, monitoring, lifecycle management, and self-service using APIs, scripting, and infrastructure automation frameworks.
• Design disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, lead recovery testing and resiliency assessments, support security governance, and mentor senior engineers and technical leads.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience managing enterprise storage environments and 5+ years in a senior architect, principal engineer, or technical leadership role.
• Deep expertise in enterprise SAN technologies and Fiber Channel architectures, plus extensive experience with NAS platforms and file services.
• Strong understanding of storage networking, switches, fabrics, connectivity, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and capacity management.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production environments requiring high availability.
• Strong scripting and automation experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Experience leading complex infrastructure modernization and migration projects.
• Strong analytical, communication, leadership, problem-solving, troubleshooting, executive communication, and cross-organizational influencing skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with HPE Primera, Alletra, NetApp, Dell PowerScale/Isilon, Pure Storage, or equivalent enterprise platforms.
• Experience with Brocade and Cisco SAN fabrics.
• Knowledge of cloud storage services in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience with Kubernetes persistent storage architectures and CSI integrations.
• Familiarity with disaster recovery, replication, backup, and business continuity solutions.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and platform automation frameworks.
• Storage industry certifications such as NetApp, HPE, Dell EMC, Cisco, Brocade, or SNIA.
• Experience operating storage platforms for large-scale private cloud or virtualized infrastructure environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with a 40-hour work week.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k); disability and life insurance; and supplemental benefit programs.
• At least 23 vacation days per year, company-designated holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave, and additional sick leave where available.
• Tuition reimbursement, adoption reimbursement, employee assistance, and wellness programs.
• Employee discounts of up to 50% on eligible AT&T mobility, internet, fiber, and phone products.
• Equal employment opportunity, reasonable accommodations, and a fair-chance hiring policy.