Principal Cloud Engineer; Storage

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Cloud Storage Platform Engineering provides secure, scalable, resilient, and automated storage capabilities for applications and data across the firm. The Cloud Storage Platform Principal is a senior individual contributor responsible for defining the architecture, engineering standards, automation, and operational direction for enterprise cloud storage platforms. The role brings deep expertise across Net App, Amazon FSx for Net App ONTAP, Nasuni, and AWS native storage services, including Amazon EFS, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and backup capabilities.

The Principal serves as the design authority and technical escalation point for cloud storage, helping enable Cloud Next and data center exit outcomes while strengthening the skills of the broader storage team.

The Principal Cloud Engineer (Storage) owns the strategy, architecture, engineering, and reliability outcomes for enterprise cloud storage platforms. The role balances strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, establishing reusable patterns and automation while partnering with infrastructure, cloud engineering and operations, application teams, architecture, security, and service owners.

• Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of cloud storage platforms in support of Cloud Next and data center exit objectives.
• Define enterprise storage patterns across Net App, Amazon FSx for Net App ONTAP, Nasuni, Amazon EFS, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and backup services.
• Engineer secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient storage solutions for enterprise application and data workloads.
• Own technical standards for performance, capacity, availability, recoverability, data protection, lifecycle management, and cost efficiency.
• Design and implement automation for provisioning, configuration, policy enforcement, monitoring, and operational support using infrastructure-as-code and Git-based workflows.
• Create reusable modules, reference architectures, guardrails, and self-service patterns that support consistent adoption at scale.
• Provide technical leadership for workload discovery, storage assessment, migration planning, data movement, cutover, validation, and decommissioning activities.
• Partner with application and platform teams to select appropriate storage services based on workload requirements, performance, resilience, security, and cost.
• Embed monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity management, and performance analytics into cloud storage platforms.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex storage incidents and performance issues, leading root-cause analysis and durable remediation.
• Assess and manage dependencies across networking, identity and access, encryption, backup,…