NetApp Storage Engineer

. Participate as a key member of the storage pipeline/engineering team responsible for implementing infrastructure changes across the NetApp environment.
. Perform NetApp 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 NetApp 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 NetApp ONTAP (FSxN) footprint.
. Develop and maintain storage automation using Ansible and related automation technologies.
. Support NetApp 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 OpenNebula as a future hypervisor platform.
. Support the current VMware SRM/SRA environment and related storage integrations.
. Utilize the NetApp Shift Toolkit to support migration initiatives where applicable.
. Support SnapCenter Server for SQL and Oracle backups and SnapCenter Plug in for VMware (SCV) for VM backup environments.
. Support and maintain the organization's NetApp StorageGRID environment, consisting of approximately 24 on premises SG5712 nodes across two sites.
. Perform StorageGRID maintenance and upgrades and support its current use with FabricPool.
. Collaborate with monitoring and operations teams utilizing Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM), Harvest/NAbox, and ServiceNow for alerting, incident creation, and operational support.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:
. Strong hands on experience administering and engineering NetApp ONTAP enterprise storage environments.
. Extensive experience with NetApp 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 NetApp infrastructure using Ansible.
. Experience integrating NetApp 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 NetApp SnapCenter.
. 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.