Description:
Recognised as one of the world’s largest IT and business consulting firms, CGI has offices across Australia, supporting local public and private sector clients to solve real business problems.
As our new NetApp Consultant, you will be responsible for the effective management and administration of the customer’s NetApp ONTAP storage environment and peripheral management infrastructure.
Working as part of the professional services team, you will provide technical guidance and act as the 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.
Flexible work is available including hybrid work from home/ client site in Brisbane.
Your future duties and responsibilities
- Understand and translate customer business requirements into technical solutions
- Engage with technical and business stakeholders
- Lead and deploy complex post-sales hardware and software architectures, installations, and integrations
- Own the product deployment with the customer
- Understand signoff and testing procedures
- Be the onsite and remote SME with NetApp, IT infrastructure, applications, security, networking and Cloud services (in the 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.
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
- Full permanent work rights for Australia.
Any experience with the following technologies is desirable:
- 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
- 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