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Sr. Storage Engineer
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Posted:
29 September 2026 (3 days ago)
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Application Deadline:
27 December 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Job Summary
As a Senior Storage Engineer you will lead the design operation and evolution of NetApp IT enterprise storage infrastructure across hybrid on-prem and cloud data centers. You will serve as a trusted technical advisor for critical storage platforms providing advanced support guidance and engineering leadership to ensure our environment remains highly available scalablesecure and resilient.
Requirements:
The Sr Storage Engineer works as part of the NetApp IT Storage Engineering team to provide operational support for our global storage infrastructure.
- Review of the overall environment and inform management of new technologies and/or methods to improve SLAs performance and/or availability of our environment.
- Design deploy operate and evolve NetApp platforms including on-prem ONTAP Amazon FSx Azure CVO Oracle Cloud Infrastructure StorageGRID E-Series and supporting tools such as NetApp Console DII SnapCenter and MCPs across global workloads data centers and regions.
- Manage enterprise storage services across NAS SAN and object storage. Maintain SVMs aggregates volumes LUNs LIFs FlexVols FlexCache FlexClones SnapMirror SnapVault SnapLock Workload Security Tamper Proof Snapshots Autonomous Ransomware Protection tenants buckets S3 endpoints and lifecycle policies.
- Support provisioning migrations decommissioning upgrades lifecycle refreshes replication disaster recovery backup compliance retention data protection and cost optimization activities.
- Embed security compliance and reliability into all storage platforms and integrations including certificates access keys encryption tenant controls bucket policies and S3-compatible access to enable growth without increasing enterprise risk.
- Internalize an AI first culture in day-to-day decision making and embed AI into how we engage build operate and support the enterprise.
- Develop and implement strategic innovation initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and reduce drag between infrastructure teams including immutable infrastructure Agentic AI platforms and workflow orchestration.
- Active daily use of AI coding tools like Copilot CLI and VS Code to accelerate results in automation analysis and documentation.
- Translate operational challenges into effective prompts validate AI output and integrate solutions into production workflows.
- Automate storage operations using tools such as PowerShell Python Ansible REST APIs NetApp ONTAP CLI/API Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
- Monitor storage health performance capacity alerts audit logs and system events; proactively identify risks lead remediation and perform root-cause analysis.
- Troubleshoot complex storage issues involving performance connectivity replication hardware firmware protocols certificates encryption S3 access latency node failures and application integration.
- Collaborate with VMware Windows Linux Cloud Database Networking Security and Application teams to meet operational and business objectives.
- Manage secure storage integrations including S3-compatible access certificates access keys encryption tenant controls bucket policies and related security configurations.
- Create and maintain documentation standards runbooks diagrams and knowledge base articles while mentoring junior engineers and operations teams.
Requirements:
- Experience with containers APIs databases microservices and distributed systems.
- Understand multiple cloud platforms including AWS Azure OCI and GCP.
- Knowledge of AI patterns including Retrieval-Augmented Generation Large Language Models MCP Agentic AI orchestration skills and Human-in-the-Loop practices.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to lead technical discussions and projects with other infrastructure teams as well as work collaboratively with the team to support timelines.
- Present strategies and prototypes to management with benefit analysis.
- Ability to adapt and learn new technologies and understand their implications in enterprise data centers.
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
Solid understanding of:- TCP/IP networking
- NIS
- DNS
- NTP
- SMTP
Proficiency in SAN fabrics and NAS protocols:
- Fiber Channel
- iSCSI
- NVMe-oF
- NFS
- CIFS/SMB
- Proficiency in Solaris Red Hat/Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Expert in WAN data replication techniques CDP asynchronous and enterprise backup topologies.
- Meet respective in-office expectations based on hybrid work category.
- Participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation and after-hours support for critical maintenance or incidents.
Education
- A minimum of 12 years of experience is required.
- A Bachelor of Sciences Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Sciences or related technical field is required; or equivalent experience.
- Experience in a large data center with hundreds of petabytes of data.
- Knowledge of NetApp technologies is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple complex technical projects
Required Experience:
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