Senior NetApp Storage Engineer

Senior Net App Storage Engineer

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Net App Storage Engineer to support a large scale enterprise storage environment. The ideal candidate will have deep hands on expertise with Net App ONTAP, FAS/AFF/C Series platforms, SAN/NAS storage, automation, and enterprise infrastructure integration. This role will be responsible for implementing storage changes, performing technology refreshes and upgrades, supporting new feature deployments, troubleshooting complex storage issues, and contributing to strategic infrastructure initiatives.

The engineer will work closely with storage, compute, networking, virtualization, database, and infrastructure teams in a highly integrated enterprise environment. The environment currently includes approximately 80 on premises Net App ONTAP nodes, Amazon FSx for Net App ONTAP, Storage GRID, VMware, and an evolving Open Nebula virtualization environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Participate as a key member of the storage pipeline/engineering team responsible for implementing infrastructure changes across the Net App environment.
• Perform Net App technology refreshes, ONTAP upgrades, configuration changes, and new feature implementations.
• Support the implementation and administration of security capabilities such as Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) and Multi Admin Verification (MAV).
• Administer and support approximately 80 on premises Net App ONTAP FAS/AFF/C Series nodes.
• Support ONTAP 9.15.1+ environments and maintain enterprise storage availability, performance, and reliability.
• Support and help expand the organization's Amazon FSx for Net App ONTAP (FSxN) footprint.
• Develop and maintain storage automation using Ansible and related automation technologies.
• Support Net App Console and Data Infrastructure Insights (DII, formerly OCI/Cloud Insights).
• Field ad hoc technical requests from storage team members supporting active initiatives and projects.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex storage and infrastructure issues.
• Support data center migrations, storage migrations, platform upgrades, and other large scale infrastructure projects.
• Work extensively with compute, networking, virtualization, database, and infrastructure teams to ensure successful integration with enterprise storage platforms.
• Support VMware based environments while contributing to initiatives evaluating Open Nebula as a future hypervisor platform.
• Support the current VMware SRM/SRA environment and related storage integrations.
• Utilize the Net App Shift Toolkit to support migration initiatives where applicable.
• Support Snap Center Server for SQL and Oracle backups and Snap Center Plug in for VMware (SCV) for VM backup environments.
• Support and maintain the organization's Net App Storage GRID environment, consisting of approximately 24 on premises SG5712 nodes across two sites.
• Perform Storage GRID maintenance and upgrades and support its current use with Fabric Pool.
• Collaborate with monitoring and operations teams utilizing Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM), Harvest/NAbox, and Service Now for alerting, incident creation, and operational support.

Requirements/Qualifications include:

• Strong hands on experience administering and engineering Net App ONTAP enterprise storage environments.
• Extensive experience with Net App FAS, AFF, and/or C Series platforms.
• Strong knowledge of ONTAP 9.x, preferably ONTAP 9.15.1 or later.
• Experience with enterprise NAS and SAN storage technologies and protocols.
• Strong experience with storage configuration, upgrades, migrations, troubleshooting, capacity management, and performance optimization.
• Experience automating Net App infrastructure using Ansible.
• Experience integrating Net App storage with large scale compute, networking, virtualization, database, and infrastructure environments.
• Experience supporting VMware/vSphere environments and storage integrations.
• Experience with enterprise backup and recovery technologies, preferably Net App Snap Center.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues spanning storage, networking, compute, and virtualization layers.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple technical teams and manage both planned engineering work and ad hoc project requests.
• Strong communication, documentation, analytical, and problem solving skills.

Desired qualifications include:

• Experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable:
• Amazon FSx for Net App ONTAP (FSxN)
• Net App Console
• Net App Data Infrastructure Insights (DII)
• Net App Storage GRID
• Fabric Pool
• Net App Snap Center Server
• Snap Center Plug in for VMware (SCV)
• VMware SRM / Net App SRA
• Net App Shift Toolkit
• Open Nebula
• Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM)
• Harvest / NAbox
• Service Now integration and automated incident creation
• Net App OTV
• Large scale data center and storage migration projects

Benefits include:

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive insurance options
• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays,…