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Infrastructure Engineer - Storage
World Wide Technology · Dulles, VA, United States
Dulles, VA, United StatesExp: 5+ yrs100,000-120,000 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
100,000-120,000 USD/yearly
Location
Dulles, VA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this position.
Job summary
World Wide Technology is seeking an Infrastructure Storage Engineer to manage and evolve their storage platform across Kubernetes-native, Microsoft Azure, and on-premises NetApp infrastructure. This role involves contributing to the development of self-service workflows, automation initiatives, and the strategic shift towards cloud-native storage architectures. The ideal candidate will collaborate with platform, cloud, and infrastructure engineering teams, taking ownership of defined storage services and operational outcomes.
Benefits
Health, Dental, and Vision CareOnsite Health CentersEmployee Assistance ProgramWellness programCompetitive payProfit Sharing401k Plan with Company MatchingLife and Disability InsuranceTuition ReimbursementPTO and Sick Leave (starting at 20 days per year)10 Holidays per yearParental LeaveMilitary LeaveBereavementNursing Mothers BenefitsVoluntary LegalPet InsuranceEmployee Discount Program
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in storage, infrastructure, or systems engineering roles with demonstrated depth across cloud and container platforms.
- Hands-on production experience with NetApp ONTAP and/or NetApp Trident.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes persistent storage, including CSI drivers, StorageClasses, volume snapshots, and PVC lifecycle management.
- Production experience with Azure storage services including Blob Storage, Azure Files, and Managed Disks.
- Strong understanding of storage performance concepts: latency, IOPS, throughput, and their relationship to application workload behavior.
- Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Ansible.
- Working knowledge of object storage concepts and operational use cases.
- Strong troubleshooting skills with experience operating in hybrid environments.
- Comfortable working from St. Louis, MO, or Ashburn, VA.
- Authorized to work in the United States.
- Experience operating storage in OpenShift Kubernetes environments (Preferred).
- Experience with Portworx or other cloud-native storage platforms (Preferred).
- Understanding of compute, virtualization, and OS-level factors that influence storage design and performance (Preferred).
- NetApp, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), or Azure storage certifications, or active progress toward them (Preferred).
- Experience using AI tools for log analysis, anomaly detection, or operational automation (Preferred).
Responsibilities
- Maintain NetApp ONTAP systems through provisioning, capacity management, upgrades, and performance troubleshooting.
- Drive progressive migration from legacy on-premises storage toward cloud-native architectures.
- Design, operate, and improve persistent storage for Kubernetes workloads using NetApp Trident and CSI drivers.
- Own StorageClass design, volume snapshots, cloning, and PVC lifecycle management.
- Support and troubleshoot storage in OpenShift Kubernetes environments.
- Operate and optimize Azure storage services including Blob Storage, Azure Files, Managed Disks, and Azure NetApp Files.
- Support hybrid connectivity between on-premises and Azure environments.
- Build and maintain storage provisioning workflows using Ansible or equivalent IaC tooling.
- Incorporate AI coding assistants into automation, IaC authoring, log analysis, and documentation workflows.
- Administer object storage platforms supporting cloud-native workloads, unstructured data, and backup targets.
- Implement backup, replication, and DR solutions across hybrid environments.
- Leverage observability tooling to proactively detect and resolve issues before they impact workloads.
Skills
AzureAnsibleAzure FilesKubernetesOpenShift
Certifications
NetAppKubernetes (CKA/CKAD)Azure storage certifications
Relocation
No