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Cloud Storage Management Expert

Mercor Remote

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$45–$60/hr

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101d ago

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About this Role

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We are seeking an Cloud Storage Management Expert to perform human-in-the-loop testing and evaluation of agentic storage management experiences. This role supports the calibration and validation of AI-powered storage agents by providing expert, manual evaluation of user journeys that complement existing LLM-based evaluation pipelines. As a Storage Management Evaluation Specialist, you will manually evaluate AI agent responses across end-to-end storage management workflows using natural language interfaces. Your storage administration expertise will be essential for assessing the completeness, accuracy, and practical value of agent-generated recommendations from an industry practitioner's perspective.

This is a W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading technology company as part of their extended workforce.

  • Discovery Evaluation: Test User Journeys across migration options to calibrate agent response completeness and accuracy of presented options.
  • Planning Evaluation: Assess agent guidance on trade-offs between Online and Offline transfer methods, including Cloud Interconnect ROI analysis and time estimates across varying file sizes and object counts.
  • Validation Evaluation: Execute simulation and dry-run migration User Journeys; identify issues that could cause migration failures.
  • Execution Evaluation: Initiate actual transfer operations via agent interfaces and assess operational reliability.
  • Reporting Evaluation: Evaluate agent-generated progress tracking, outcome reporting, and variance analysis against migration plans.
  • Traffic Simulation: Simulate realistic storage traffic in test projects to create representative evaluation conditions.
  • Agent Invocation & Feedback: Invoke AI Agents with natural language queries and provide subjective, expert-level feedback on outcomes.
  • Scoring Calibration: Calibrate offline scoring mechanisms using evaluation findings to improve automated assessment accuracy.
  • 3P Agent Testing: Test third-party agent blueprints built for customers on the Cloud Storage MCP platform.
  • Completed User Journey evaluation reports for each agent (per 10-week cycle)
  • Documented subjective insights and actionable feedback on agent responses from a storage admin persona
  • Calibration data and recommendations for the offline scoring mechanism
  • Issue logs identifying agent failure modes, inaccuracies, or gaps
  • Summary reports comparing agent-planned outcomes vs. actual migration results
  • Storage administration experience with a strong understanding of cloud storage concepts, data migration strategies, and enterprise storage management practices
  • Familiarity with cloud storage platforms (AWS S3, GCS, Azure)
  • Hands-on experience with data migration — including online/offline transfer methods, Cloud Interconnect, and transfer sizing considerations
  • Ability to evaluate AI/LLM-generated recommendations from a practitioner's perspective, identifying gaps in completeness and accuracy
  • Strong written communication skills for documenting evaluation findings and providing structured feedback
  • Comfortable working with natural language interfaces and conversational AI tools
  • Background in storage performance analysis, security auditing, or storage intelligence/analytics
  • Prior experience in QA, evaluation, or red-teaming of AI/ML systems
  • Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or agentic AI frameworks

Requirements

  • Must be eligible to work in Remote
  • Fluent proficiency in English (Written & Verbal)
  • Reliable high-speed internet connection
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
  • Demonstrated expertise in Software Engineering

Why This Role

Rare opportunity for top 1% experts. Earn $52.5/hr contributing to the world's most advanced AI labs. This is one of the few roles where academic precision is valued as highly as commercial output.

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