Storage Architect
- GDH Inc.
21 Hours Ago
NA
W2
Richardson-TX
8-10 Years
Required Skills: NetApp ONTAP, Enterprise storage technologies
Job Description
The Senior Storage Engineer / Infrastructure Architect designs, provisions, administers, and troubleshoots enterprise storage infrastructure supporting high-performance private cloud environments. This role focuses on NetApp ONTAP and All-Flash FAS technologies while integrating enterprise storage with Red Hat OpenShift and containerized workloads. The position also supports performance optimization, resiliency, disaster recovery, and cross-functional infrastructure initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Configure, provision, optimize, and maintain NetApp All-Flash FAS and AFF storage environments.
- Administer NetApp ONTAP, including upgrades, aggregates, storage virtual machines, volumes, and multi-tenant configurations.
- Monitor and optimize storage performance, including IOPS, throughput, and latency across NFS, iSCSI, and NVMe-over-Fabrics environments.
- Install, upgrade, configure, and administer NetApp Astra Trident and Container Storage Interface technologies.
- Develop and maintain Trident backend configurations and Kubernetes StorageClasses.
- Design and support persistent storage solutions for stateful applications running on Red Hat OpenShift and private cloud environments.
- Implement and support automated snapshots, backups, clones, and disaster recovery workflows.
- Troubleshoot storage performance, connectivity, configuration, and integration issues across OpenShift and NetApp environments.
- Conduct failover and high-availability testing to validate data availability and infrastructure resiliency.
- Collaborate with DevOps, virtualization, systems administration, networking, and security teams to support enterprise infrastructure requirements.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure configurations, operational procedures, architecture documentation, and troubleshooting guides.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on experience administering NetApp AFF storage environments.
- Strong experience with NetApp ONTAP and enterprise storage technologies.
- Experience supporting Red Hat OpenShift within private cloud or enterprise environments.
- Hands-on experience with NetApp Astra Trident, including backend configuration, persistent volume provisioning, and StorageClass management.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise storage protocols, including FCP, iSCSI, NFSv3, and NFSv4.
- Understanding of software-defined networking concepts within containerized or OpenShift environments.
- Strong Linux administration experience, including RHEL and CoreOS.
- Experience with Linux storage technologies, including DM-Multipath, storage drivers, and related system configurations.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across enterprise storage, networking, Linux, and container infrastructure.
- Experience with infrastructure resiliency, high availability, performance optimization, and disaster recovery.
- NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer (NCIE), NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA), or comparable NetApp certification is preferred.
- Red Hat OpenShift, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or comparable certification is preferred.
- Experience with infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python, or comparable technologies is preferred.
- Relevant education, training, certifications, or equivalent practical experience.
