Storage Administrator_Netapp

Job Requirements :-

• 5+ years of dedicated engineering experience in enterprise-scale data centers, acting as the Tier-3 Subject Matter Expert (SME) for business-critical file and block storage infrastructure.
• Master-level proficiency in NetApp ONTAP 9.x CLI and GUI, clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT) architectures, Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs), and logical routing.
• Implementation of Storage and its configurations end to end
• Advanced knowledge of Fibre Channel (FC) protocol mapping, non-blocking fabric designs, World Wide Name (WWN) addressing, and N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV).
• Direct hands-on administration experience with secondary/other enterprise storage systems, including IBM System Storage arrays, legacy tape automation devices (e.g., IBM TS3200 Library), and IBM , HP storage systems.
• Advanced understanding of storage geometry alignment, write amplification avoidance, and application-specific formatting rules
• Experience integrating storage endpoints with enterprise virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere/ESXi), backup frameworks (Veeam Backup & Replication), and identity providers (Active Directory/LDAP/OIDC).

Disaster Recovery & Resilience

• Design, test, and manage enterprise replication pipelines using synchronous/asynchronous SnapMirror and long-term SnapVault protection topologies.
• Author and validate step-by-step disaster recovery runbooks, managing target SVM activations, storage path re-mappings, and snapshot-level data restorations

Key Responsibilities :

• Architect, deploy, and configure multi-node NetApp ONTAP clusters, creating isolated Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs) and provisioning aggregate pools.
• Execute advanced SAN fabric configuration on Brocade switches, implementing peer zoning, single-initiator/multiple-target zoning definitions, and WWN bindings.
• Provision and maintain secure storage connection endpoints using native Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, NFS (v3/v4), and SMB/CIFS block and file layouts.
• Manage volume allocations, qtrees, quotas, and automated space-guarantee policies across global storage pools.
• Implement and monitor ONTAP data reduction features, optimizing compression, inline deduplication, compaction, and fabric tiering to object storage.
• Maintain security compliance over storage planes, managing NetApp export policies, share permissions, volume encryption (NVE/NAE), and Brocade administrative role allocations.
• Troubleshoot microsecond-level latency spikes, queue depth bottlenecks, and I/O degradation patterns using ONTAP CLI diagnostics and Active IQ Unified Manager.
• Debug SAN fabric connectivity issues, bit errors, and frame drops by analyzing Brocade switch logs, registers, and SFP transceiver light levels.
• Configure and troubleshoot host-side asymmetric logical unit access (ALUA) routing rules and multipath I/O (MPIO) drivers to guarantee seamless path failovers.
• Plan and execute non-disruptive storage migrations across frames utilizing NetApp Volume Move, SnapMirror, or host-level logical volume managers.