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Technical Operations Manager

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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Overview

At NetApp, we have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. That’s because we bring new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively in the most efficient possible way. As an Engineer with NetApp, you’ll have the opportunity to work with modern cloud and container orchestration technologies in a production setting. You’ll play an important role in scaling systems sustainably through automation and evolving them by pushing for changes to improve reliability and velocity.

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  • Analytical
  • Adaptable
  • Communicator
  • Detail-oriented
  • Quick-thinking
  • Problem solver

Responsibilities

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Job category: Engineering Job ID: 127216-en_US

About NetApp

NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, turning a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. No matter the data type, workload or environment, we help our customers identify and realize new business possibilities. And it all starts with our people.

If this sounds like something you want to be part of, NetApp is the place for you. You can help bring new ideas to life, approaching each challenge with fresh eyes. We embrace diversity and openness because it's in our DNA. Of course, you won't be doing it alone. At NetApp, we're all about asking for help when we need it, collaborating with others, and partnering across the organization - and beyond.

"At NetApp, we fully embrace and advance a diverse, inclusive global workforce with a culture of belonging that leverages the backgrounds and perspectives of all employees, customers, partners, and communities to foster a higher performing organization."-George Kurian, CEO

Job Summary

Our TechOps Engineers are the frontline team keeping our large fleet of cloud-hosted open-source clusters up and running. Your work will ensure the security, reliability and performance of world-class systems and databases. You will collaborate with our customer’s technical teams, from globally recognised companies in the gaming, banking and logistics industry sectors, ranging from big multinationals to emerging start-ups. 

As TechOps Manager, you will be a leader in our TechOps team who maintain and support our large fleet of cloud-hosted Apache Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch & other open-source technology clusters. Every day will raise interesting and challenging problems ranging across many different areas such as fleet management, customer support, incident response and team development. Based from our Canberra main office, you will be working closely with other teams, including Product Management, Development Teams and Customer Success to help drive and shape the way we support our customers.

Job Requirements

  • Lead a team of talented engineers to deliver a very high quality of customer service and outcome. Including performance reviews and other people management activities.  
  • Reviewing the teams work demands and support requests on a daily basis, prioritizing them and ensuring timely responses are provided to the customer 
  • Ensuring that customer issues are responded to within SLA timeframes through staff training, ongoing queue management, allocation of appropriate resources.  
  • Project management of major operational tasks such as cluster migrations and fleetwide upgrades. This includes resource allocation and scheduling.  
  • Participate customer calls in different geographies related to the management of major operations 
  • Be aware of conflicting fleetwide operations, and manage these appropriately to eliminate risk (e.g. fleet upgrades targeted to clusters under migration).  
  • Ensuring that defined processes and procedures are adhered to.  Manage Shift Rostering 
  • Participate in our Level 3 on-call roster (Major Incident Manager) which includes rotating weekend coverage and contribute to post incident activities. 
  • Maintain an understanding of our product offerings (including Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, and/or OpenSearch) as well as working knowledge of Instaclustr systems.  
  •  Provide training to new team members and customers in TechOps and Instaclustr operational procedures, and ensure these processes are adhered to. 
  • Be a proactive, reliable and supportive member of the TechOps team.
  • Identify and drive the implementation of opportunities to continuously improve TechOps activities through the development and maintenance of tools and procedures and/or working closely with the product engineering team. 

Skills and Education

  • We require you to have the right skills and maintain professional qualifications for the role covering: 
  • Leading a technical operations team already or working in operations with over 8 years of overall experience and ready to take on management responsibility 
  • Exceptional ability to communicate clearly and professionally in written and verbal English is essential as this role will involve customer interaction.  
  • Ability to perform the role as Major Incident Manager 
  • Demonstrated excellent experience with managing teams in challenging environments and take measures to keep the team morale high, drive positive work culture 
  • Previous system administration and/or programming experience is preferred 
  • Demonstrated ability to multitask, this is a critical attribute to have in this role 

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, and any protected classification.

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Why NetApp?

We are all about helping customers turn challenges into business opportunity. It starts with bringing new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively to run better - but also to innovate. We tailor our approach to the customer's unique needs with a combination of fresh thinking and proven approaches.

We enable a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time off each year to volunteer with their favourite organizations. We provide comprehensive benefits, including health care, life and accident plans, emotional support resources for you and your family, legal services, and financial savings programs to help you plan for your future. We support professional and personal growth through educational assistance and provide access to various discounts and perks to enhance your overall quality of life.

If you want to help us build knowledge and solve big problems, let's talk.


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Our values

Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.

Benefits

Volunteer time off

40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

Well-being

Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

Time away

Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.

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Equal Opportunity Employer*

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status and any other protected classification. We pledge to take every reasonable step to ensure that our applicants and employees are respected, treated fairly and with dignity. See the EEO poster (PDF). NetApp makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for religious purposes and for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, who can perform the essential job functions unless undue hardship would result.

State-specific postings/notices to applicants regarding contract compliance can be found here in English and here in Spanish, and fair employment practice information can be found here.

Reasonable accommodation

If you are an applicant with a physical or mental disability that requires reasonable accommodation for any part of our application process, please email accessibility@netapp.com. Each request for reasonable accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis, consistent with applicable laws and regulations. Please note, this email address is only for accommodation requests; we do not accept unsolicited resumes.

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We care about your privacy and therefore ask that you read our Applicant Privacy Policy (PDF) before you submit any personal information to us.

NetApp may use an automated employment evaluation tool or similar tool as one of several tools, actions, and/or steps to assist with NetApp’s review of candidate applications for various hiring needs. Currently, when addressing certain hiring needs, NetApp uses the Eightfold tool which can provide an initial ranking of a candidate’s skills and experience, based on information provided by the applicant in the application and/or supporting documentation, in comparison to the NetApp designated key requirements of a specific role. Additionally, the tool may be used to help review and /or rank internal employees seeking promotion or other internal mobility.

An independent audit of the Eightfold Matching Model tool can be found at https://eightfold.ai/nyc-eightfoldmatching-model.

Candidates may request an alternative selection process which will not be subject to the Eightfold matching tool or to any electronic automated employment evaluation by contacting NetApp at careers@netapp.com. To bypass the Eightfold matching tool or any electronic automated employment evaluation, you must include a resume and job ID with your email to careers@netapp.com and you must include in the subject line of your email: Data Privacy Request. Candidates who have questions or want to request additional information on the source of data, type of data, and/or collection of data related to the candidate review process should contact NetApp at careers@netapp.com

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