Storage Administrator - NetApp

Role Summary:

As a Storage Administrator specializing in NetApp technologies, you will oversee the strategic management and optimization of the organization’s storage infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for configuring, monitoring, and maintaining storage systems to ensure optimal performance, availability, and data integrity. Your expertise will drive key operations such as storage provisioning, data protection, disaster recovery, and troubleshooting of complex storage environments. You will collaborate with cross-functional IT teams to support mission-critical applications, ensure compliance with data governance policies, and implement industry best practices to enhance storage efficiency and scalability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strong experience in NetApp storage and backup administration.
• Experience in installation, upgrades, and configuration.
• Hands-on experience with EMC (VNX, VMAX, Celera, Unity), NetApp series, and other IBM and HP products.
• Hands-on experience in Commvault, Veeam, and other backup applications.
• Experience in troubleshooting and maintaining NetApp infrastructure performance, hardware, and connectivity.
• Experience with Cisco and Brocade series FC switches.
• Experience in NetApp storage provisioning, LUN masking, and zoning.
• Experience in NetApp storage capacity planning, performance analysis, monitoring, and reporting.
• Understanding of NFS, CIFS, and Fiber Channel protocols, with experience in supporting and managing replication.
• Strong knowledge of all backup solutions and concepts, such as policy types, retentions, SLP, NetBackup process flow, and deduplication.
• Good knowledge of NetApp storage pools, RAID groups, LUN masking, and zoning.
• Experience in NetApp storage virtualization, deduplication, BCV, remote copy, synchronous and asynchronous replication, and data center fiber cables.
• Experience in setting up and administering NetApp storage units and devices, tape libraries, VTL, data domains, and basic disks.
• Understand product technology and prepare technical documentation, SOPs, and migration plans/strategies.
• Basic level of scripting knowledge.
• Should have good experience in OEM, customer coordination, and vendor management.
• Should have exposure to ITSM tools and a strong understanding of ITIL processes.

Qualification:

• Any UG/PG with a minimum of 5-6 years of experience in NetApp Storage & Backup Administration.
• Good knowledge of multiple operating system environments like Windows, Linux and UNIX.
• Prior exposure to working in minimum 2 implementation cycle.
• Excellent communication skills.