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Senior Technical Support Engineer - Keystone

Remote - US; United States

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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

Remote - US; United States Job category: Engineering Job ID: 132133-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. 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.

Job Summary

As a Senior Technical Support Engineer for Keystone Storage as a Service, you will provide advanced technical support to customers, customer support personnel, and field support staff.  Your role involves monitoring, diagnosing, troubleshooting, repairing, and debugging NetApp Keystone products, including hardware, software, and multi-system/multi-vendor/multi-network interoperability issues. You will respond to situations where first-line product support has failed to isolate or fix problems, ensuring optimal results. This role requires a proactive professional with demonstrated technical problem-solving skills, subject matter expertise, and strong customer service orientation and experience.

Job Responsibilities

  • •    Proactive Function: Manage Keystone-specific delivery functions, including hardware, OS, and software releases, critical functionality patches, advisories, vulnerabilities, technical risk mitigation, and firmware updates.
    •    Planning and Execution: Conduct general planning for OS, software, hardware upgrades, patch installations, data migration, and design best practices. Develop and execute roll-back plans and best practices recommendations.
    •    Data Management: Utilize data management tools to oversee Keystone consumption on an estate-wide and per-customer basis, including performance levels, capacity committed and consumed, physical capacity consumed, data efficiency ratio, IOPS delivered, latency delivered, capacity thresholds, and performance thresholds.
    •    Reporting and Maintenance: Collect and maintain data on hardware health, OS version status, firmware status, incident status, EOS status, on-site installed tool status, software licensing status, support contract, and entitlement status.
    •    Push Communications and Interfacing: Interface with Keystone Success Managers, Support Account Managers, Deployment Team, Keystone Support Team, and customers. Disseminate customer bulletins and work closely with Site Advanced Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve complex issues related to Keystone products, customer environments, and associated cloud environments (Azure, Google Cloud Provider, AWS).
    •    Customer Support: Respond to post-sales customer support issues via phone, email, web, or chat.
    •    Research and Analysis: Collect and analyze multi-platform logs to identify issues and determine root causes.
    •    Collaboration: Work closely with other Technical Support Engineers and escalation teams to facilitate quick solutions and identify defects.
    •    Knowledge Sharing: Create new knowledge base articles and improve existing ones for reuse throughout the Technical Support Center.
    •    Mentorship: Mentor and coach fellow Technical Support Engineers, share best practices, and influence decisions within immediate and adjacent teams.
    Service Delivery and Reporting
    •    Service Level Objectives (SLOs): Maintain availability SLO of 99.999% for Unified and Block Optimized Data Storage Types, performance SLOs targeting 90th percentile latency for target minimum IOPs, and sustainability SLOs for maximum watts consumption per ONTAP A-/C- Series Storage Array.
    •    Technical Support SLO: Respond to incident tickets based on priority levels assigned by Keystone support.
    •    Design Services: Design solution and determine STaaS Products required to deliver STaaS Services.
    •    Metering/Monitoring: Perform capacity consumption metering and basic health and performance monitoring using the Monitoring Tool.
    •    Notification: Notify end users of basic incidents that may affect delivery or use of STaaS services through the Monitoring Tool.
    •    Technical Support: Provide technical support by email or telephone.
    •    Capacity, Health, and Performance Management: Manage STaaS products to deliver STaaS services.
    •    Updates: Identify, plan, and optionally install updates and patches in coordination with end users

Job Requirements

•    Experience: 12+ years of relevant technical support experience.
•    Technical Skills: Extensive hands-on experience with networking protocols and storage technologies (e.g., NFS, CIFS, SAN, iSCSI, TCP/IP, RAID). Proven experience with NetApp Storage Systems (ONTAP 9 AFF/ASA/FAS, E-Series) and associated management tools.
•    Cloud and Virtualization: Experience with virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix) and cloud solutions, emphasizing performance issue detection under load.
•    Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, plus one or more of the following languages: Japanese, French, or German.
•    Problem-Solving: Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues using advanced analytical and creative problem-solving skills. Capacity to proactively identify potential issues, raise concerns early, and propose innovative, preventative resolutions.
•    Interpersonal Skills: Strong interpersonal skills to effectively manage stressful or ambiguous situations and deliver superior customer service.
•    Technical Expertise: Familiarity with ancillary technologies such as DNS, NIS, and Active Directory. Expertise in performance troubleshooting, including diagnosing issues in NetApp systems (throughput, latency, high-load bottlenecks).
•    Collaboration: Established track record of collaborating with senior internal and external stakeholders and contributing to cross-team initiatives.

Education

IC - Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience.Mgr & Exec - Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience.

Compensation:
The target salary range for this position is 172,550 - 256,300 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off (PTO), various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process. 

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

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.

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 per year to volunteer with their favorite organizations. We provide comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and vision plans for you and your family. We offer educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts. Finally, we provide financial savings programs to help you plan for your future.

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

Submitting an application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.


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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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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, Know your rights poster, and NetApp EEO policy. 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 Accommodations

At NetApp, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible workplace where individuals with disabilities can thrive. In alignment with our values, NetApp provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments where possible to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities, in accordance with employment rights and regulations relevant to their country of employment, to ensure equal access to employment opportunities and job performance.

Applicants who would like to request an accommodation or adjustment are encouraged to Contact Us. Each request will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, in accordance with applicable laws and our commitment to equity and belonging within our culture, values and business practices. Requests will be handled confidentially and respectfully, and we will work collaboratively to identify effective solutions.

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Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes to the above email address.

Data privacy

We care about your privacy and, therefore, ask that you read our Candidate Privacy Notice before you submit any personal information to us.

NetApp does not carry out any solely automated decision making (i.e. the process of making a decision by automated means without any human involvement) in determining your suitability or eligibility for specific roles.

However, the processing of your personal information is carried out with the aid of manual and automated tools. In particular, 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. However, our talent acquisition team or our recruiters will ultimately select the candidates for further consideration, following human review of any automated evaluation results and associated underlying documentation (or lack thereof) submitted with the candidates’ application.

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

Submitting an application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team reviews applications submitted through our company website only. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.