Infrastructure Storage Engineer (NetApp)

Location: Hybrid, with regular onsite presence at the hirify.global facility in Chandler, Arizona; primary location listed as Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The hybrid model allows employees to split time between the assigned hirify.global site and off-site work.

Annual salary: $100,550–$194,270 USD.

Company

hirify.global develops technology and operates foundry infrastructure focused on engineering, cloud, virtualization, OpenShift, and AI environments.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, deployment, optimization, and lifecycle management of NetApp NAS, SAN, SDS, object storage, and backup platforms.
• Design and implement scalable storage solutions for bare-metal, virtualized, containerized, cloud, engineering, and AI environments.
• Manage storage provisioning, replication, data protection, performance optimization, capacity management, and lifecycle activities.
• Lead storage modernization, migration, automation, and infrastructure documentation initiatives.
• Monitor performance and utilization, troubleshoot storage issues, and maintain high availability and data integrity.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, virtualization, networking, cloud, DevOps, and software engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience administering enterprise storage environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with NetApp ONTAP administration, including NAS services, data protection, and storage lifecycle management.
• In-depth knowledge of NAS, SAN, SDS, and object storage, including configuration, performance tuning, capacity planning, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with NFS, SMB/CIFS, S3, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI storage protocols.
• Experience with NetApp SnapMirror, SnapVault, Snapshot, FlexVol, FlexGroup, and Storage Virtual Machines.
• Experience with enterprise SAN platforms such as PowerMax or similar arrays, enterprise backup and disaster recovery solutions such as Veeam and SnapVault, and on-premises storage in physical and virtualized environments.
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud integration and automation using Ansible, Python, PowerShell, and REST APIs.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, collaboration, and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience with NetApp AFF, FAS, ASA, and related platforms.
• Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, and NetApp Trident.
• Experience with Veeam, Rubrik, Cohesity, or other enterprise backup solutions.
• Experience with Dell EMC PowerMax, Dell ECS Object Storage, and enterprise SAN platforms.
• Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, or Bash for infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Strong background in data protection, disaster recovery, and high-availability architectures.
• Experience supporting AI/ML, engineering compute, or high-performance storage workloads.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and forward-thinking environment focused on innovation, quality, and customer needs.
• Hybrid work model with time split between the assigned hirify.global site and off-site work.
• Competitive compensation with stock bonuses.
• Health, retirement, and vacation benefits.
• Career growth opportunities in technology and infrastructure.

Hiring process

• The role is classified as an experienced hire.
• Candidates must meet the minimum qualifications to receive initial consideration; preferred qualifications are additional selection factors.