NetApp

Optimizes cloud infrastructure costs on AWS

Senior Storage Engineer

IT OperationsUpdated on Nov 14

Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

Experience with containers, APIs, databases, microservices, and distributed systems.
Understanding of 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.
Ability to lead technical discussions and projects with other infrastructure teams and work collaboratively to support timelines.
Ability to present strategies and prototypes to management with benefit analysis.
Ability to adapt and learn new technologies and understand their implications in enterprise data centers.
Understanding of TCP/IP networking, NIS, DNS, NTP, and SMTP.
Proficiency in SAN fabrics and NAS protocols, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe over Fabrics, NFS, and CIFS/SMB.
Proficiency in Solaris, Red Hat/Linux, and Windows operating systems.
Expertise in WAN data replication techniques, CDP, asynchronous replication, and enterprise backup topologies.
Ability to meet in-office expectations based on the hybrid work category.
Availability to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and provide after-hours support for critical maintenance or incidents.
At least 12 years of experience.
A Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
Experience in a large data center with hundreds of petabytes of data.

Responsibilities

Review the overall environment and inform management about technologies or methods that could improve service-level agreements, performance, or availability.
Design, deploy, operate, and evolve NetApp platforms, including on-premises ONTAP, Amazon FSx, Azure CVO, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, StorageGRID, E-Series, NetApp Console, DII, SnapCenter, and MCPs across global workloads, data centers, and regions.
Manage enterprise storage services across NAS, SAN, and object storage, maintaining 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.
Embed security, compliance, and reliability into storage platforms and integrations, including certificates, access keys, encryption, tenant controls, bucket policies, and S3-compatible access.
Apply an AI-first approach in day-to-day decisions and integrate AI into how the enterprise engages, builds, operates, and provides support.
Develop and implement strategic innovation initiatives to improve operational efficiency and reduce friction between infrastructure teams, including immutable infrastructure, Agentic AI platforms, and workflow orchestration.
Use AI coding tools such as Copilot CLI and VS Code to accelerate automation, analysis, and documentation.
Translate operational challenges into prompts, validate AI-generated output, and integrate solutions into production workflows.
Automate storage operations using 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; mentor junior engineers and operations teams.

Desired Qualifications

Knowledge of NetApp technologies.
Demonstrated ability to complete multiple complex technical projects.

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, scalable,secure, 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

About the Company

NetApp

Optimizes cloud infrastructure costs on AWS

Spot.io, part of NetApp, helps businesses manage cloud costs and infrastructure on AWS. It uses software that analyzes cloud usage and automates management to lower compute expenses, especially through AWS EC2 spot instances, which offer spare capacity at reduced prices. The product provides deep visibility into cloud spending, an AWS cost optimization calculator for estimating potential savings, and a free action plan tailored to each customer. Revenue comes from selling software licenses and consulting services. Target customers include enterprises using containers and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, KOPS, Docker Swarm, and OpenShift. The company aims to reduce cloud compute costs for customers while simplifying cloud operations and improving efficiency.

Company size: 51-200
Company stage: Acquired
Total funding: $53.2M
Headquarters: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Founded: 2015

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