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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.\nRequirements:\nThe Sr Storage Engineer works as part of the NetApp IT Storage Engineering team to provide operational support for our global storage infrastructure.\nReview of the overall environment and inform management of new technologies and/or methods to improve SLAs, performance, and/or availability of our environment.\nDesign, 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.\nManage 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.\nSupport provisioning, migrations, decommissioning, upgrades, lifecycle refreshes, replication, disaster recovery, backup, compliance, retention, data protection, and cost optimization activities.\nEmbed 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.\nInternalize an AI first culture in day-to-day decision making and embed AI into how we engage, build, operate, and support the enterprise.\nDevelop and implement strategic innovation initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and reduce drag between infrastructure teams including immutable infrastructure, Agentic AI platforms, and workflow orchestration.\nActive daily use of AI coding tools like Copilot CLI and VS Code to accelerate results in automation, analysis, and documentation.\nTranslate operational challenges into effective prompts, validate AI output, and integrate solutions into production workflows.\nAutomate storage operations using tools such as PowerShell, Python, Ansible, REST APIs, NetApp ONTAP CLI/API, Terraform, and other infrastructure-as-code frameworks.\nMonitor storage health, performance, capacity, alerts, audit logs, and system events; proactively identify risks, lead remediation, and perform root-cause analysis.\nTroubleshoot complex storage issues involving performance, connectivity, replication, hardware, firmware, protocols, certificates, encryption, S3 access, latency, node failures, and application integration.\nCollaborate with VMware, Windows, Linux, Cloud, Database, Networking, Security, and Application teams to meet operational and business objectives.\nManage secure storage integrations, including S3-compatible access, certificates, access keys, encryption, tenant controls, bucket policies, and related security configurations.\nCreate and maintain documentation, standards, runbooks, diagrams, and knowledge base articles while mentoring junior engineers and operations teams.\nRequirements:\nExperience with containers, APIs, databases, microservices, and distributed systems.\nUnderstand multiple cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP.\nKnowledge of AI patterns including Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, MCP, Agentic AI, orchestration, skills, and Human-in-the-Loop practices.\nExcellent oral and written communication skills.\nAbility to lead technical discussions and projects with other infrastructure teams, as well as work collaboratively with the team to support timelines.\nPresent strategies and prototypes to management with benefit analysis.\nAbility to adapt and learn new technologies and understand their implications in enterprise data centers.\nExcellent interpersonal and leadership skills. 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