Engineering Manager (Storage & SAN)

Location: Bangalore, India

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager – Storage Engineering & SAN Protocols to lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for the design, development, qualification, and optimization of enterprise block storage technologies.

In this role, you will provide technical and people leadership across SAN, Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, NVMe-oF, and ONTAP-based storage solutions. You will drive engineering execution, influence technical direction, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver highly available, scalable, and enterprise-ready storage capabilities.

Job Requirements

• Engineering Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of experienced storage engineers and developers while fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance engineering culture.

• SAN & Block Storage Strategy: Drive technical direction and execution across Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe/FC, and NVMe/TCP technologies.

• Technical Execution: Own engineering deliverables from architecture and development through qualification, integration, and General Availability (GA).

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management, QA, Support, and other engineering teams to deliver complex storage capabilities and New Product Introduction (NPI) programs.

• Storage Architecture: Provide technical leadership in areas such as LUN provisioning, igroups, multipathing, fabric zoning, high availability, storage virtualization, and data protection.\

• Performance & Reliability: Drive improvements across storage performance, scalability, availability, resiliency, and interoperability.

• Enterprise Integration: Guide integration and interoperability of block storage solutions with platforms such as Linux/RHEL,

• Windows Server, VMware ESXi/vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Cisco infrastructure.

• Technical Problem Solving: Lead resolution of complex system-level issues

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise storage, systems software, or storage engineering.

• 2–4+ years of people management or engineering leadership experience, preferably leading senior engineers.

• Strong hands-on technical background in SAN and block storage architectures.

• Deep understanding of Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, NVMe/FC, and/or NVMe/TCP.

• Strong understanding of SAN fabrics, multipathing, zoning, LUN management, storage networking, and high-availability architectures.

• Experience with Linux/RHEL and at least one additional enterprise environment such as VMware ESXi/vSphere or Windows Server.

• Strong understanding of storage performance, scalability, reliability, and troubleshooting in large enterprise environments.

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex engineering programs and collaborate across geographically distributed teams.