Senior Storage Migration Engineer (NetApp ONTAP to AWS)

GrowthArc · India

Job Overview

Notice: Immediate Joiner to 15 days

Location: Anywhere in India

We are looking for a Senior Storage Migration Engineer to lead petabyte-scale enterprise storage migrations from on-premises NetApp infrastructure to AWS . The role will focus on migrating ~1 PB of data to Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS , administering Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP , and ensuring data integrity, security, replication, performance, and operational readiness throughout the migration lifecycle.

• Lead migration of 500 TB–1 PB+ enterprise storage from NetApp/NAS/SAN to AWS.
• Plan and execute migrations using AWS DataSync or equivalent tools, including incremental sync, cutover, checksum validation, and reconciliation.
• Design and manage Amazon S3 and EFS , including lifecycle policies, versioning, encryption, Object Lock, access controls, and Cross-Region Replication.
• Provision and administer Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP , including SVMs, volumes, qtrees, NFS/SMB, snapshots, SnapMirror, backup, and DR.
• Implement storage security using AWS IAM, KMS, encryption, ACLs , and enterprise retention policies.
• Automate migration, validation, and operational processes using Python/Bash and Terraform .
• Monitor storage performance and health using CloudWatch and other operational tools.
• Develop migration runbooks, documentation, and support knowledge transfer.

• 7+ years of storage/integration engineering experience with strong enterprise storage expertise.
• Proven experience migrating 500 TB–1 PB+ of NetApp/NAS/SAN data to AWS .
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS DataSync, S3, EFS, and FSx for NetApp ONTAP .
• Expertise in SnapMirror, NFSv4, SMB, snapshots, replication, backup, and disaster recovery .
• Strong understanding of S3 lifecycle, CRR, Object Lock, versioning, and SSE-S3/SSE-KMS .
• Strong scripting skills in Python/Bash and experience with Terraform .
• Knowledge of AWS IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, data retention, and enterprise security/compliance .

• Experience with petabyte-scale NetApp-to-AWS migrations in production.
• Experience with FlexCache and advanced FSx ONTAP capabilities.
• Exposure to GitHub/GitLab CI/CD and container platforms .
• AWS certifications such as AWS Storage Specialty or Solutions Architect – Professional .