IT Systems Engineer - Storage Services

Job Description

Department you would be working with:
The department R&D IT provides IT Services enabling R&D engineers to do their engineering work. The design environment is an integrated solution and service of Design Infrastructure, EDA application landscape, Design Data Management and Product Creation Applications. The Global R&D IT services are delivered from small number locations, containing on-premises and Public cloud Data Centers (full set of services). The objective of R&D IT is to ensure Business Success and Market Leadership for NXP by providing Best-in-Class R&D IT Services and R&D IT Solutions.

This is what you will do as Cloud DevOps storage engineer:

In collaboration with the rest of the R&D IT teams:
• Manage and administer storage systems, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and availability in the AWS cloud and on-premises.
• Implement and maintain storage services & infrastructure.
• Monitor storage capacity and performance, proactively addressing issues to ensure availability.
• Collaborate with other IT teams to design, implement, and optimize storage solutions based on organizational needs.
• Conduct regular data backups and implement disaster recovery strategies to safeguard critical information.
• Troubleshoot storage-related incidents and provide timely resolutions to minimize business impact.
• Implement security measures to protect stored data, including access controls and encryption.
• Create and maintain documentation related to storage configurations, procedures, and policies.
• Administer and support NetApp ONTAP storage systems across production and DR environments.
• Manage AWS FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN) including provisioning, snapshots, and replication etc.
• Perform storage provisioning, health checks, performance tuning, and capacity monitoring.
• Support upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management of NetApp hardware and software.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and audit requirements.
• Conduct storage performance tuning, capacity planning, and storage system audits.
• Provide on-call backup support and participate in maintenance activities including patching and upgrades.
Typically, you:
• Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or related field.
• Experience as DevOps engineer with strong automation skills for storage technologies in the AWS cloud as well as on premises.
• Minimum of three years of experience working as AWS cloud DevOps engineer with focus on storage technologies both on AWS cloud (Eg: S3, EBS, EFS, FSxN) as well as on premises (Eg: NetApp, Pure storage).
• In-depth knowledge of storage technologies, protocols, and file systems (eg: NAS, SAN, NFS, CIFS, object storage).
• Strong automation skills preferably using Ansible, Python as well as AWS CloudFormation.
• Extensive experience working with the Linux OS and NFS storage in a high-performance compute environment.
• Certification with AWS would be plus.
• Value the importance of working together with others to be successful as a team and as part of a larger organization.
• Solution-oriented, hands-on, and no “9-to-5 mentality”. Customer-centric and no IT service provider mind set (SLAs, siloed).
• Experienced as a DevOps engineer with IT infra as code (IaC), configuration management tools & CICD.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Strong commitment to customer satisfaction and quality.
• Solution-oriented, hands-on, customer-centric mindset with strong commitment to satisfaction and quality.
• Team player with collaborative approach, valuing organizational success over silos.