Technical Support Engineer @ NetApp

As a Storage Support Engineer, you provide support to customers, customer support personnel, and field support staff that is focused on diagnosing, troubleshooting, repairing and debugging NetApp products. You respond to situations where first-line product support has failed to isolate or fix problems in hardware or software products, and you ensure delivery of optimal results. You must be a take charge professional with demonstrated technical problem-solving skills; and a subject matter expert; and have a strong customer service orientation and experience. You'll also be happy to come into the office either full time or hybrid (minimum two days a week). 

   Respond to situations where NetApp product support has been unable to solve customers technical issues.
   Collaborate with or escalate cases with other NetApp Technical Support teams and/or Escalation Engineers when the problem is too complex or falls out of your specific area of expertise in order to most quickly facilitate solutions for customers.
   Work collaboratively with customers in potentially stressful situations, while providing professional and courteous technical expertise.
   Create new knowledge base articles to share information and best practices for reuse throughout the Technical Support Center
   Focus on E-series and StorageGRID specialization and build deep technical expertise in these areas.

   Storage and Object based storage experience
   Ability to troubleshoot difficult technical issues with strong commitment to deliver excellent customer service experience.
   Passion and ability to learn new technologies in a fast-pace environment.
   Work well in a team environment and be a proactive contributor to team development projects.
   Creative approach to problem solving and demonstrate a can-do attitude.
   High ability to multi-task, manage workload and define priorities based on business impact of issues.
   Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer facing environment.
   Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices.

Strong Understanding of the Following:

Hardware principles, RAID, and iSCSI
Object-based storage and S3 protocol
Distributed databases (Cassandra)
Network troubleshooting experience (Wireshark, TCP)
Linux administration and scripting
Virtualization (VMware, Docker-containers)
Data protection and understanding of T10 Protection Information (PI) concepts
Experience with NetApp Data ONTAP 9.0+ (a plus), Fiber Channel, Infiniband, NVMe-oF, HTTP/RestAP

   Typically requires a minimum of 2-5 years related experience within a similar Technical Support role 
   A Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Computer Science; or equivalent related experience is required