Principal, Software Engineer – Cloud Storage Architect

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Cloud Storage Architect will work closely with Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud & Data Platforms, Application Development, Capacity, Cost and Operations teams to provide highly available, fault tolerant, cost effective and performant cloud and enterprise storage services.  

Using various automated tools, you will provide scalable and reliable storage solutions to manage Public and Private clouds within multiple disparate cloud infrastructures. You will develop data insights by utilizing data analytics solutions and drive optimal utilization of storage which is cost effective. While Engineering projects will remain the focus of this role, working with customers to deploy cloud-based services to analyze and improve storage efficiencies based on utilization, performance, and TCO will be critical.  

Additionally, the Cloud Storage Architect will own tasks to architect, design solutions by interfacing with Enterprise Architects, product managers, developers to escalate, reproduce, validate or debug solutions. You will also be working with other platform teams to help integrate cloud storage services into the larger ecosystem. You will identify opportunities in the ecosystem that will help us to unlock higher value for cloud storage service offerings, by reducing costs and improving performance. You will be part of a team of highly motivated engineers who work very well together. 

Responsibilities 

• Design, evangelize, advocate for, and optimize cross-functional Cloud and Enterprise Storage solutions that are high performant and cost effective. 
• Enable Application teams to follow best practices to deploy on Cloud Platforms and optimize Storage spend and improve efficiency and performance based on utilization. 
• Initiate & drive significant architectural solutions/decisions of our Public and Private Clouds that will improve efficiency, performance, and reduce Cloud Storage spend. 
• Drive cost optimization initiatives across storage services organization, with a focus on improving performance and next-gen tech stack adoption. 
• Design automation for storage optimization and other processes on various cloud platforms. 
• Partner with architects in Application and other platform teams and ensure alignment of solutions across the stack. 
• Implement comprehensive monitoring solutions to track performance, availability, and cost metrics across the multi-cloud ecosystem. 
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and implement proactive measures to maintain high availability and service continuity. 
• Leverage data analytics and AI tools to predict usage patterns, optimize resource allocations and enhance infrastructure p