Senior Storage Administrator

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Cloud Storage Management Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $40$60/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Evaluate user journeys across migration options to ensure agent response completeness and accuracy.
• Assess agent guidance on trade-offs between online and offline transfer methods including Cloud Interconnect ROI analysis.
• Execute simulations and dry-run migration user journeys to identify potential migration failures.
• Initiate actual transfer operations via agent interfaces and assess operational reliability.
• Evaluate agent-generated progress tracking outcome reporting and variance analysis against migration plans.
• Simulate realistic storage traffic in test projects to create representative evaluation conditions.
• Invoke AI Agents with natural language queries and provide expert-level feedback on outcomes.
• Calibrate offline scoring mechanisms using evaluation findings to improve automated assessment accuracy.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Storage administration experience with cloud storage concepts 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.
• Ability to evaluate AI/LLM-generated recommendations from a practitioners perspective.
• Strong written communication skills for documenting evaluation findings.
• Comfortable working with natural language interfaces and conversational AI tools.

Preferred

• 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.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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