Senior NetApp Storage Engineer

About VLink:

Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients

• Clients are 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.

• 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.

• 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 integrating Net App storage with large scale compute, networking, virtualization, database, and…