NetApp ONTAP Storage Engineer for Low Latency Trading

Autonomai Recruitment; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Performance bonus

Pension plan

Healthcare coverage

Job summary

Autonomai Recruitment seeks a hands-on NetApp ONTAP engineer to own the storage layer for trading, market data, and core platforms. You will operate, optimise FAS/AFF/C-Series storage across primary and DR sites with sub-millisecond latency and high IOPS.

Role requires 5+ years in enterprise storage, 3+ years on ONTAP Cluster-Mode, and strong scripting/automation skills. Expect 24/5 on-call in a trading environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years enterprise storage engineering
• 3+ years NetApp ONTAP Cluster-Mode (9.x)
• Deep hands-on with NetApp FAS/AFF/C-Series and SAN/NAS storage
• Experience with SnapMirror/SnapVault/SnapLock
• Strong Linux/Windows storage administration and performance tuning

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement NetApp SAN/NAS for trading engines and core services.
• Provision and manage volumes, LUNs, SVMs, aggregates across prod and DR.
• Tune storage for latency-sensitive workloads: queue depths, multipathing, NFS/SMB options.
• Implement SnapMirror, SnapVault, SnapLock, snapshots, clones; own DR testing.
• Automate provisioning, reporting, and ops with PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or NetApp APIs.
• Monitor performance and capacity using OnCommand Unified Manager, Performance Manager and Insight.
• Collaborate with network, systems, SRE, and trading tech in a 24/5 environment.

Skills

NetApp ONTAP

FAS/AFF/C-Series

SAN/NAS

Snapshots/SnapMirror/SnapVault

SnapLock/Clones

Dedupe/Compression

FlexVol/FlexGroup

Linux/Windows storage

PowerShell/Python/Ansible

SAN fabrics (Brocade/Cisco MDS)

Scripting/Automation

Tools

PowerShell

Python

Ansible

Job description

Autonomai Recruitment seeks a hands-on NetApp ONTAP engineer to own the storage layer for trading, market data, and core platforms. You will operate, optimise FAS/AFF/C-Series storage across primary and DR sites with sub-millisecond latency and high IOPS.

Role requires 5+ years in enterprise storage, 3+ years on ONTAP Cluster-Mode, and strong scripting/automation skills. Expect 24/5 on-call in a trading environment.