DESCRIPTION

Job Location – Remote / anywhere in the UK.

Rate: Open.

Contract Duration: 3 months.

Start date: ASAP/Jan 2024

 

Job Spec

 

End Goal: To deliver a framework for the entire lifecycle of ANF in an Enterprise environment. To work with the customer to establish working practices for both initial deployment and ongoing support/maintenance, monitoring and decommissioning processes.

 

Scope: The architecture, design, delivery and automation of a new Azure NetApp Files based solution.

The resources will work inside the customers organisation and will not be actively managed by NetApp.

 

Resource 2 - Site Reliability Engineer (Architect, implement, establishing monitoring, initiate operation)

Azure Netapp File monitoring, performance tuning and observability. Integrate any further tooling required.

Azure Dashboard and Azure Workbook skills. Grafana also potentially useful.

 

To cover the following:

Design

• Best practices.
• Right sizing of storage for
• IOPs requirements
• Performance and throughputs
• Availability and features supported for our required applications analysis

Recovery options and processes

• Snapshots
• Backups
• Workflows for the above

Process for renewals (certs/passwords etc) for Onprem AD connections

• Coding
• Automation
• Devops pipelines

Deployment Automation

• How to Automate builds/Automated Provisioning
• Connectivity to AD CRES during setup
• Configuration and ongoing changes using code
• Configuration drift – Ensuring it doesn’t and how to bring back inline if it does
• Expansion of capacity pools and volumes and max limits linking in with Section 1

Observability

• Load
• Performance
• Uptime
• Maintenance
• Continuous availability
• Alerting
• Reporting

Central Management for enterprise environments

• How
• Where
• Benefits
• Downsides
• Bespoke options