- Hands-on experience with NetApp AFF, FAS, ASA, StorageGRID, and Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
- Strong knowledge of NAS protocols (NFS and CIFS/SMB), storage encryption, security hardening, data protection, replication technologies, and advanced troubleshooting.
- Ability to independently manage complex enterprise storage environments and serve as the highest level of technical escalation.
- Experience with storage performance analysis, optimization, and implementing data-at-rest and data-in-transit encryption.
- Experience in troubleshooting file access, permissions, ACLs, authentication, name resolution, and performance-related issues.
- Expertise in CIFS Server deployment, Active Directory integration, Kerberos authentication, LDAP/NIS integration, and name services.
- Experience in storage expansion, migration across clusters, firmware upgrades.
- NCDA/NCIE certification is a plus.
- Adaptable to support 24*7 environment.