Sr. Storage Engineer

NetApp; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

NetApp is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to lead the design, operation, and evolution of IT enterprise storage infrastructure across hybrid on-prem and cloud data centers. You will serve as a trusted technical advisor for critical storage platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, security, and resilience.

You will work with NetApp technologies (ONTAP, StorageGRID, and cloud integrations) and guide teams across global workloads and regions to optimize storage performance and

Qualifications

• 12 years of experience in storage engineering or related field.
• Bachelor of Sciences in Electrical Engineering or Computer Sciences or related technical field.
• Experience in a large data center with hundreds of petabytes of data.
• Knowledge of NetApp technologies preferred.
• Proven ability to complete multiple, complex technical projects.

Responsibilities

• Review the overall environment and inform management of new technologies or methods to improve SLAs, performance, and availability.
• Design, deploy, operate, and evolve NetApp platforms across various environments (on-prem, cloud, hybrid).
• Manage enterprise storage services across NAS, SAN, and object storage; maintain SVMs, aggregates, volumes, LUNs, LIFs, and related technologies.
• Support provisioning, migrations, decommissioning, upgrades, replication, disaster recovery, backup, compliance, retention, data protection, and cost optimization activities.

Skills

Storage design

Technical leadership

Hybrid cloud

Education

BSc in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Experience in large data center (hundreds of PB)

Tools

ONTAP

NetApp Console

DII

SnapCenter

MCPs

Job description

Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.
Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

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.

Job Requirements

• Review 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.

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.

This job description is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that are required of positions that fit in this classification and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any manager to assign, direct and control the work of employees under his or her supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned that are of similar kind or level of difficulty.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.