DESCRIPTION

Job Location – Remote / anywhere in the UK.

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 1 - Automation Engineer

Terraform & Azure NetApp Files - automating deployment & provisioning.

Ansible and Python good to have.

 

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