Netapp Consultant

**Position Description**:
NetApp Consultant

Do you want to take your career to the next level as part of one of the big five IT and business process firms in the world? Be part of something and join CGI as a NetApp Consultant delivering Advisory consulting services across multiple clients in the UK.

Job Summary

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

PLEASE NOTE: You MUST either hold, or be willing and eligible to undergo, UK Security Clearance. This requires at least 5 years continuous residency in the UK.

Job Requirements:

- 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
- 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

The skills/capabilities in the following technologies/areas of expertise which are essential to 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 today-one of the world's 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 CGI-where your ideas and actions make a difference.

**Skills**:

- ITIL
- NET App
- Ansible
- Python

**What you can expect from us**:
**Insights you can act on**

While technology is at the heart of our clients' digital transformation, we underst