NetApp SME

Job Title: NetApp SME

Location: Nashville TN (Onsite)

Type: Contract



CANDIDATE PROFILE


Day in the life/roles and responsibilities.


Storage specialist
Technical initiatives around storage structure
50/50 enable L2 through automation and take away from hands on
Overseeing l2 teams ext but also working on architects longer term roadmaps & interpreting cloud into roadmap.


Specify technical skills. (Required & preferred)

NetApp SME with hands on
Storage backup teams & one contractor filling role around storage

This person will be NetApp SME
Engineering providing roadmaps how do we grow environment support new workloads very technical thought leader
File NAS Block SAN and object
AIX & Cisco switches
Cloud insights NetApp ActiveIQ (nice to have)
(azure) on s3
OS platform AIX
File servers are mixer of Rails/NFS
Hands on CLI does scripting level of automation basic IT skill sets
Net Ansible Playbooks is plus




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Overall Job Summary

This position is responsible for the development and delivery of Storage Infrastructure services and automation to support enterprise operations for missioncritical infrastructure. This role includes responsibility in the design development and support of storage platforms to enable greater agility with fulfillment to accomplish company growth initiatives. Additional key responsibilities include mentor other team members in a DevOps operating model. Technologies in scope include NetApp NAS and SAN platforms storage management technologies data protection solutions infrastructure automation tools Ansible Terraform CI/CD pipelines and sharedservice applications. Knowledge of public and private cloud technology platforms PaaS IaaS containers Kubernetes scripting languages such as Bash PowerShell Python and other Infrastructure automation languages.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Min 5%)


Provide technical leadership in the execution of Systems Infrastructure strategy to enable greater agility with fulfillment of Infrastructure services including working with other teams to enable end to end CI/CD pipelines.
Design support and maintain a delivery platform that provides the stability scalability and availability demands of the business through infrastructure lifecycle standardization strategies.
Identify and implement ongoing opportunities for system and process improvements.
Maintain development standards complying with enterprise standards ensuring solutions are optimally designed secure well performing and integrated with other solutions.
Deliver the objectives associated with problem management such as customer communication and root cause analysis reports.
Foster key vendor relationships and contract performance.
Document internal SOPs processes and training to ensure team members are successful in DevOps environment.
Lead the team with internal infrastructure projects which may require cross departmental coordination to achieve goals



Required Qualifications

Experience: 6 years related work experience of increasingly technical Information Technology experience. 3 years related work experience in DevOps utilizing SDLC agile methodology with various programming languages (Microsoft PowerShell Bash Perl Python SQL Java etc.)

Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Management Information Systems or a related field preferred. Any suitable combination of education and experience will be considered.

Professional Certifications: Preferred Microsoft and Red Hat DevOps Certifications

High Demand IT Specialized skills: DevOps in Public and Private Cloud Environments

Platform knowledge (UNIX Linux Windows):


NetApp Storage Platforms (SAN and NAS)
NetApp Software Management Technologies (Cloud Insights Active IQ)
Scripting Languages (Python Bash PowerShell PowerCLI JSON KSH YAML)
Orchestration tools (Terraform Ansible)
Infrastructure Configuration/Automation development (Ansible Tower Salt Stack Puppet)
Cloud services (Azure Google Cloud IBM Bluemix)
Container and Platform services (Kubernetes OpenShift Docker CI/CD Pipeline)
Repository tools (GitHub BitBucket)
Microsoft and Linux based Operating Systems
Virtualization services (VMware Nutanix AHV Azure Stack)


Preferred knowledge skills or abilities


Ability to use a variety of opensource technologies and cloud services.
Development and execution of DevOps engineering practices.
Strong knowledge of networking server and storage technologies and environments.
Ability to comprehend business requirements to ensure technical directions are supportive.
Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
Analytical and Problemsolving skills.
Knowledge of business process reengineering from lean principles to agile processes.
Knowledge of open telemetry observability frameworks pipelines and publish/subscribe models.


Strong understanding of ITIL core principles for incident request change and problem management.

NETWORKING , AGILE , CI/CD , SQL , GITHUB , PERL , GOOGLE CLOUD , TERRAFORM , VMWARE , AZURE STACK , JSON , DEVOPS , UNIX , LINUX , AUTOMATION , AZURE , SALT STACK , BASH , DOCKER , ANSIBLE , MICROSOFT , IAAS , POWERCLI , WINDOWS , PYTHON , POWERSHELL , JAVA