Netapp Consultant

 

Main characteristics

Location

City of Edinburgh

Company

CGI

Employment type

Permanent

Category

IT

Job summary

Title
Netapp Consultant

Category
Business Consulting

City
UK Wide - Various, UK Wide - Various, United Kingdom

Job Description
Netapp Consultant

Position Description
If your skills are backed up with a talent for solving problems, well help you to make your best, better. Our Netapp Consultants are trusted to work closely with a wide range of clients on exciting projects with real-world purpose and impact.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2023 and has been named one of the Worlds Best Employers by Forbes magazine. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a member not just an employee.

We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and youll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. Well train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go. We are happy to discuss remote or hybrid working.

As a Netapp Consultant, you are responsible for the effective management and admin of the customers NetApp data storage environment and peripheral management infrastructure. Providing technical guidance as part of the Professional Services team, you will be a technical escalation point. You will have experience working across core infrastructure technologies, with specific experience relating to Virtualization, Storage, Scripting & Automation, Networking and Windows/Linux operating systems.

Your future duties and responsibilities
Understand and translate customer business requirements into technical solutions
Ability to converse and influence on multiple levels within customer organisation comfortably engage with technical staff on the detailed hands on level and with managerial / sales level stakeholders
Lead and deploy highly complex post-sales hardware and software architectures, installations, and integrations
Own the product deployment with the customer
Understand signoff and testing procedures
Onsite and remote subject matter expert with NetApp, IT infrastructure, applications, security, networking and Cloud services, in a context of deploying a software product with applicable infrastructure.
Provide detailed project planning, design, implementation, and final As-Built documentation
Design and architect company marketed solution sets and other custom consulting
Ensures all assigned work tasks are completed in an effective and efficient manner
Broad and detailed exposure and understanding of a variety of technologies/concepts in a distributed environment

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Experience integrating complex software product and applicable multiple infrastructure elements into a customer environment
VMware/vCenter; Linux
NetApp ONTAP (AFF + FAS); data centre storage environments
Firewalls integration of firewalls into customer network, outbound access to internet, IPSEC tunnels supporting routed management subnets, exposing product infrastructure management interfaces via external interfaces on FWs.
Security documentation and explanation of our requirements for IP access, management access, service accounts and permissions. Lead discussions with customer security teams to explain and justify access
Desirable Qualifications
Kubernetes / Docker / Helm charts / Ingress Routing & TLS certificates
Docker image repositories, tagging, release management.
Ansible, Ansible Roles, RedHat Tower / Apache AWX
High level familiarity with MongoDB & Rabbit MQ
System monitoring and alerting with tools such as Prometheus and Prometheus AlertManager, SNMP, OpsRamp & ElasticSearch (EFK Stack)
Credential management tools such as Hashicorp Vault
Python scripts, running and managing if not writing.
YAML configuration
NetApp technologies StorageGRID and generic S3, E-Series, NetApp HCI, SolidFire, Trident
Persistent Volume Claims are under Kubernetes, role they perform and integration with NetApp Trident
Data-centre deployments racks, cooling, power, fixed network cabling
Palo Alto firewalls
OpsRamp explain role of the OpsRamp tool in customer environments. Discuss use for remote management/VPN, outbound network requirements, logging, IP access to storage environment, etc

Insights you can act on

While technology is at the heart of our clients digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees members because they are CGI shareholders and owners, and, as owners, we enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are todayone of the worlds largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where everyone belongs, and we collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal opportunity employer, we empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

Ready to become part of our success story? Join CGIwhere your ideas and actions make a difference.

Skills

Finance

Infrastructure architecture

Project Management

Reference
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