NetApp Senior Storage Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 20 April 2026
LOCATION
Greater London
TYPE
Contract
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS

NetApp ONTAP Storage Administration Backup and Disaster Recovery Cohesity Rubrik NFS CIFS/SMB Storage Migrations

FULL DESCRIPTION

NetApp Senior Storage Engineer - Greater London - Contract | £465 per day

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced NetApp Senior Storage Engineer to join our enterprise infrastructure team on a initial 6 month contract. This is a hands-on technical role focused on the administration, support, and optimisation of NetApp storage environments and modern enterprise backup platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Storage Administration & Support

  • Hands-on administration of NetApp storage systems
  • Strong experience with NetApp ONTAP (Clustered ONTAP)
  • Management of aggregates, volumes, LUNs, and qtrees
  • Support for NFS and CIFS/SMB protocols
  • Configuration and support of Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs)
  • Management of Snapshots and SnapMirror replication

Storage Architecture & Operations

  • Design and support of enterprise storage solutions
  • Capacity planning and performance tuning
  • High availability configurations (HA pairs, clustering)
  • Firmware and ONTAP upgrades
  • Storage migrations and data lifecycle management

Backup & Disaster Recovery

  • Strong understanding of backup fundamentals (full, incremental, retention policies)
  • Knowledge of RPO and RTO objectives
  • Disaster recovery planning and testing
  • Data integrity validation and restore testing

Enterprise Backup Platforms

  • Hands-on experience with enterprise-grade solutions, particularly:
  • Cohesity
  • Rubrik
  • Experience backing up and restoring enterprise databases
  • Protection of VM-based infrastructure
  • Image-level backups and application-consistent snapshots

In addition to experience in some of the above candidate will also ideally hold industry certifications in NetApp along with strong troubleshooting and analytical capability, ability to work independently in complex enterprise environments and clear documentation and effective communication skills. If you are a proactive infrastructure specialist with strong NetApp and enterprise backup expertise, we would love to hear from you. This role will be hybrid based working 1-2 day per week in the office. Day Rate – £465 per day via umbrella company

Job Overview:

Location

Greater London

Offered Salary:

Contract | £465 per day

Work Type

Contract or Temp

Recruiter Detail:

Full Name

Steve Dodd

Email

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Phone

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