Manadate Skills: NetApp Storage, Installation and Configuration, Migration.

Storage Operations & Support
- Manage and support enterprise Netapp storage platforms (Primary: NetApp ONTAP, Secondary/Valuable to know Pure Storage FlashArray/FlashBlade, Dell EMC PowerStore/Unity/PowerMax, HPE Primera/Alletra/3PAR) including day-to-day operations, incident and problem management (L2 escalations from L1), and RCA within defined SLAs.
- Perform storage provisioning and lifecycle management, volume/LUN creation, expansion, mapping/masking, aggregate/pool management, and decommissioning.
- Monitor storage capacity, performance, and health, latency, IOPS, throughput, thin provisioning thresholds, and predictive capacity planning.
- Perform storage firmware/microcode/OS upgrades including compatibility checks, rollback strategy, and minimize downtime during upgrades.
- Manage storage replication and DR technologies ( Netapp SnapMirror, RecoverPoint, SRM, native array replication) including failover/failback testing.
- Administer SAN fabric components (Brocade/Cisco MDS switches, zoning,



multipathing) and NAS protocols (NFS, SMB/CIFS).

Backup Platform Operations & Support
- Manage and support enterprise backup platforms (Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup) including backup job configuration, scheduling, monitoring, and failure of remediation.
- Design and maintain backup policies aligned to RPO/RTO requirements across virtual, physical, database, and application workloads.
- Perform backup infrastructure upgrades and patching media servers, proxies, storage nodes/appliances, and backup software components.
- Monitor and manage backup storage repositories, deduplication ratios, retention policies, and data lifecycle/archival tiers.
- Prform and validate restore operations file-level, VM-level, application-consistent, and granular/item-level recovery.
- Conduct periodic DR drills and backup/restore audits to ensure recoverability and compliance with data protection of SLA

📌 Netapp Storage Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Neurealm
📍 Chennai