Netapp Storage Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking an experienced NetApp Storage Administrator to deploy and manage NetApp CDOT and 7-Mode environments, and to handle performance tuning, upgrades, and migrations. You will work with OnCommand tools, SAN fabrics and scripting to automate tasks and support DR testing.

Candidate should have strong NetApp storage knowledge, familiarity with monitoring platforms and a proactive, customer-focused approach.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in NetApp storage deployment and administration.
• Strong understanding of NetApp storage concepts, replication and recovery technologies.
• Experience with automation tools and scripting (PowerShell/Python) is preferred.
• Familiarity with SAN fabrics (Brocade/Cisco) and storage protocols (FC, NFS, iSCSI, CIFS) is required.
• Exposure to monitoring and management tools (OnCommand, Performance Manager, Insight) and ITIL practices.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and administer NetApp CDOT and 7-Mode storage environments.
• Troubleshoot performance, firmware, OS upgrades and replication issues.
• Migrate data from 3rd party to NetApp and manage backups.
• Design, implement and test disaster recovery and DR failover.
• Provide input on storage architecture, security hardening and cost optimization.

Skills

NetApp Storage

OnCommand Manager

PowerShell

Python

SAN

Fibre Channel

NFS

iSCSI

S3 Object

ITIL

Tools

NetApp Storage

OnCommand Unified Manager

Performance Manager

Insight

StorageGRID

E-Series

SolidFire

NetApp Workflow Automation

Ansible

Job description

TCS Hiring!!!

Experience: 5 to 15 Years

Location: Mumbai-Navi, Bangalore

Role & responsibilities:

• Experienced in NetApp Storage (Deploying and administering NetApp Storage CDOT and 7-Mode, Troubleshooting Performance Issues, performing firmware and operating system upgrades, using storage management tools - OnCommand Unified Manager/ Performance Manager/ Insight, Managing backup integration with NetApp technologies).
• Proficient understanding of NetApp Storage concepts, related management tools and related Storage technologies (Snapshots, controller failover, provisioning, deduplication, cloning, Snapmirror, IntelliSnap) including monitoring and troubleshooting, administration, replication technologies, security hardening and performance tuning.
• Experience in other NetApp storage technologies like StorageGRID, E-Series, SolidFire would be highly regarded
• Experience with automation tools such as NetApp Workflow Automation, Ansible
• Experience in writing basic PowerShell/Python scripts would be beneficial.
• Strong understanding of Storage protocols and technologies (Fiber Channel, CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and S3 Object)
• Data Migration from 3rd party to NetApp, host / application-level migration.
• Expertise in Brocade or Cisco SAN switches administration and troubleshooting SAN connectivity.
• SAN zoning.
• SAN switches firmware upgrade
• Strong knowledge on FC and IP based storage replications.
• Knowledge in ITIL methodologies: change, incident, problem and configuration management.
• Working knowledge of monitoring platforms, WANs, SANs, backup and disaster recovery platforms.
• Experience in Windows and Linux System Administration.
• Strong customer communication and documentation skills.
• Understanding of other components in the infrastructure stack - compute, virtualization and networks: (NetApp/Cisco Flex pod architecture, Cisco UCS platform, IBM Blade Center, System X, VMWare vSphere, Microsoft Operating Systems and Applications, Commvault).

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Infrastructure design, build, deployment and disaster recovery testing.
• Positive, proactive, team-orientated attitude with a flexible and innovative approach to work.