NetApp Senior Storage Engineer

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Net App Senior Storage Engineer to join our enterprise infrastructure team on a initial 6 month contract.

This is a hands-on technical role focused on the administration, support, and optimisation of Net App storage environments and modern enterprise backup platforms.

• Hands-on administration of Net App storage systems
• Strong experience with Net App ONTAP (Clustered ONTAP)
• Management of aggregates, volumes, LUNs, and qtrees
• Support for NFS and CIFS/SMB protocols
• Configuration and support of Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs)
• Management of Snapshots and Snap Mirror replication

• Design and support of enterprise storage solutions
• Capacity planning and performance tuning
• High availability configurations (HA pairs, clustering)
• Firmware and ONTAP upgrades
• Storage migrations and data lifecycle management

• Strong understanding of backup fundamentals (full, incremental, retention policies)
• Knowledge of RPO and RTO objectives
• Disaster recovery planning and testing
• Data integrity validation and restore testing

• Hands-on experience with enterprise-grade solutions, particularly:
• Cohesity
• Rubrik
• Experience backing up and restoring enterprise databases
• Protection of VM-based infrastructure
• Image-level backups and application-consistent snapshots

In addition to experience in some of the above candidate will also ideally hold industry certifications in Net App along with strong troubleshooting and analytical capability, ability to work independently in complex enterprise environments and clear documentation and effective communication skills.

If you are a proactive infrastructure specialist with strong Net App and enterprise backup expertise, we would love to hear from you.

This role will be hybrid based working 1-2 day per week in the office.

Day Rate - £465 per day via umbrella company