Storage Administrator_Netapp

Tata Consultancy Services; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Bengaluru seeks an experienced storage engineer to lead enterprise storage projects. You will design and operate multi-node NetApp ONTAP clusters, manage SVMs, and ensure secure, scalable storage across FC, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB protocols.

Role requires deep NetApp ONTAP expertise, SAN fabric design, and integration with VMware, Veeam, AD/LDAP, and other enterprise platforms. This position offers challenging, high-availability storage environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of dedicated engineering experience in enterprise-scale data centers as Tier-3 SME for file/block storage.
• Master-level proficiency in NetApp ONTAP 9.x CLI/GUI, clustered Data ONTAP, SVMs, and logical routing.
• End-to-end storage implementation and configuration experience.
• Advanced knowledge of FC, NPIV, WWN addressing, and non-blocking fabrics.
• Experience with IBM/HP storage systems and legacy tape automation.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and configure multi-node NetApp ONTAP clusters with isolated SVMs.
• Execute SAN fabric config on Brocade switches, including zoning and WWN bindings.
• Provision storage endpoints over FC, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS.
• Manage volumes, quotas, and space-guarantee policies across pools.
• Monitor data reduction features and optimize fabric tiering to object storage.
• Ensure security controls: export policies, permissions, encryption, and roles.
• Troubleshoot latency, queue depth, and I/O degradation using ONTAP diagnostics.
• Plan non-disruptive migrations using NetApp tools and host LVMs.

Skills

NetApp ONTAP expert

SAN fabric design

VMware vSphere integration

Backup frameworks (Veeam)

AD/LDAP/OIDC authentication

Tools

IBM System Storage

Brocade switches

ION storage networking

SnapMirror/SnapVault

ONTAP CLI/GUI

Job description

Job Requirements :-

• 5+ years of dedicated engineering experience in enterprise-scale data centers, acting as the Tier-3 Subject Matter Expert (SME) for business-critical file and block storage infrastructure.
• Master-level proficiency in NetApp ONTAP 9.x CLI and GUI, clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT) architectures, Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs), and logical routing.
• Implementation of Storage and its configurations end to end
• Advanced knowledge of Fibre Channel (FC) protocol mapping, non-blocking fabric designs, World Wide Name (WWN) addressing, and N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV).
• Direct hands-on administration experience with secondary/other enterprise storage systems, including IBM System Storage arrays, legacy tape automation devices (e.g., IBM TS3200 Library), and IBM , HP storage systems.
• Advanced understanding of storage geometry alignment, write amplification avoidance, and application-specific formatting rules
• Experience integrating storage endpoints with enterprise virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere/ESXi), backup frameworks (Veeam Backup & Replication), and identity providers (Active Directory/LDAP/OIDC).

Disaster Recovery & Resilience

• Design, test, and manage enterprise replication pipelines using synchronous/asynchronous SnapMirror and long-term SnapVault protection topologies.
• Author and validate step-by-step disaster recovery runbooks, managing target SVM activations, storage path re-mappings, and snapshot-level data restorations

Key Responsibilities :

• Architect, deploy, and configure multi-node NetApp ONTAP clusters, creating isolated Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs) and provisioning aggregate pools.
• Execute advanced SAN fabric configuration on Brocade switches, implementing peer zoning, single-initiator/multiple-target zoning definitions, and WWN bindings.
• Provision and maintain secure storage connection endpoints using native Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, NFS (v3/v4), and SMB/CIFS block and file layouts.
• Manage volume allocations, qtrees, quotas, and automated space-guarantee policies across global storage pools.
• Implement and monitor ONTAP data reduction features, optimizing compression, inline deduplication, compaction, and fabric tiering to object storage.
• Maintain security compliance over storage planes, managing NetApp export policies, share permissions, volume encryption (NVE/NAE), and Brocade administrative role allocations.
• Troubleshoot microsecond-level latency spikes, queue depth bottlenecks, and I/O degradation patterns using ONTAP CLI diagnostics and Active IQ Unified Manager.
• Debug SAN fabric connectivity issues, bit errors, and frame drops by analyzing Brocade switch logs, registers, and SFP transceiver light levels.
• Configure and troubleshoot host-side asymmetric logical unit access (ALUA) routing rules and multipath I/O (MPIO) drivers to guarantee seamless path failovers.
• Plan and execute non-disruptive storage migrations across frames utilizing NetApp Volume Move, SnapMirror, or host-level logical volume managers.