NetApp Storage Administrator at Dallas, TX

VOLTO Consulting; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 106,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Volto Consulting is seeking a NetApp Storage Administrator to support and optimize NetApp ONTAP environments in a Dallas-area engagement. The role emphasizes designing and maintaining storage solutions, leading migrations, and ensuring high availability across SAN/NAS infrastructures.

You will manage data protection, cross-cluster replication, and DR readiness using SnapMirror, Active IQ, and System Manager.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in managing and supporting NetApp ONTAP environments.
• Design, deploy, and maintain NetApp storage solutions (ONTAP, Cloud Volume Ontap and Azure Netapp Files).
• Ability to plan, lead, and execute data migrations in a NetApp environment.
• Led engineering support for SAN/NAS environments and ensured performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Deep expertise in managing and supporting NetApp ONTAP environments.
• Design, deploy, and maintain NetApp storage solutions (ONTAP, Cloud Volume Ontap and Azure Netapp Files).
• Ability to plan, lead, and execute data migrations in a NetApp environment.
• Lead engineering support for SAN/NAS environments and ensure optimal performance and reliability.
• Provision storage: create volumes, LUN mapping, NAS shares, and ensure OS-level availability.
• Manage capacity planning, performance tuning, forecasting, and trending.
• Configure SVM to SVM data protection relationships with replication of data, exports, RBAC, and metadata.
• Set up secure cluster peering and SVM peering for cross-cluster DR replication.
• Execute baseline transfers and scheduled incremental updates for DR recovery.
• Hands-on SVM failover and reactivation using SnapMirror DR activation capabilities.
• Monitor SVM DR relationships, snapshot retention, and replication health.

Skills

NetApp ONTAP expertise

SVM DR replication

Performance troubleshooting

Capacity planning

Tools

SnapMirror

Active IQ

System Manager

NFS protocol

SMB protocol

FC protocol

Job description

NetApp Storage Administrator

Location: ~Dallas, TX~

Duration: 6 months

Job Description

Deep expertise in managing and supporting NetApp ONTAP environments. Design, deploy, and maintain NetApp storage solutions (ONTAP, Cloud Volume Ontap and Azure Netapp Files). Ability to plan, lead, and execute data migrations in a NetApp environment. Lead engineering support for SAN/NAS environments and ensure optimal performance and reliability. Provision storage: create volumes, LUN mapping, NAS shares, and ensure OS-level availability. Manage capacity planning, performance tuning, forecasting, and trending. Demonstrated experience configuring SVM to SVM data protection relationships, ensuring replication of not just volume data but also NFS exports, SMB shares, RBAC settings, and SVM configuration metadata. Proficient in setting up secure cluster peering and SVM peering, enabling cross cluster data replication for SVM DR environments. Experienced in executing baseline transfers and managing scheduled incremental updates for SVM level disaster recovery, ensuring minimal disruption and fast, consistent updates Hands-on experience performing SVM failover and reactivation of primary systems, leveraging SnapMirror s fast, nondisruptive DR activation capabilities. Proficient in monitoring SVM DR relationships, verifying snapshot retention alignment with protection policies, and validating replication health for business continuity. Strong teamwork skills with the ability to work independently and maintain a positive attitude. Extensive experience with migration processes- snpmirror. Proficiency with key NetApp tools such as SnapMirror, Active IQ, and System Manager. Solid understanding of NFS, SMB/CIFS, and FC protocols. Experience in NetApp storage provisioning, replication, and performance troubleshooting.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Deep expertise in managing and supporting NetApp ONTAP environments.
• Design, deploy, and maintain NetApp storage solutions (ONTAP, Cloud Volume Ontap and Azure Netapp Files).
• Ability to plan, lead, and execute data migrations in a NetApp environment.
• Lead engineering support for SAN/NAS environments and ensure optimal performance and reliability.
• Provision storage: create volumes, LUN mapping, NAS shares, and ensure OS-level availability.
• Manage capacity planning, performance tuning, forecasting, and trending.
• Demonstrated experience configuring SVM to SVM data protection relationships, ensuring replication of not just volume data but also NFS exports, SMB shares, RBAC settings, and SVM configuration metadata.
• Proficient in setting up secure cluster peering and SVM peering, enabling cross cluster data replication for SVM DR environments.
• Experienced in executing baseline transfers and managing scheduled incremental updates for SVM level disaster recovery, ensuring minimal disruption and fast, consistent updates
• Hands‑on experience performing SVM failover and reactivation of primary systems, leveraging SnapMirror s fast, nondisruptive DR activation capabilities.
• Proficient in monitoring SVM DR relationships, verifying snapshot retention alignment with protection policies, and validating replication health for business continuity.
• Strong teamwork skills with the ability to work independently and maintain a positive attitude.
• Extensive experience with migration processes- snpmirror.
• Proficiency with key NetApp tools such as SnapMirror, Active IQ, and System Manager.
• Solid understanding of NFS, SMB/CIFS, and FC protocols.
• Experience in NetApp storage provisioning, replication, and performance troubleshooting.