Escalation Engineer 5
Job Summary
Job Summary:
As a Senior Value Delivery Engineer for Keystone Storage as a Service, you will provide advanced technical support to customers, customer support personnel, and field support staff. You will partner with KSM and CSD resources to provide customer experience never seen at NetApp. Your role involves monitoring, diagnosing and troubleshooting NetApp Keystone environments, including hardware, software, and multi-system/multi-vendor/multi-network interoperability issues. You will respond to situations where first-line product support has failed to isolate or fix problems, ensuring optimal results. This role requires a proactive professional with demonstrated technical problem-solving skills, subject matter expertise, and strong customer service orientation and experience. Fluency in Japanese and English are required. This is a new role within NetApp and an exciting opportunity.
Essential Functions
•Proactive Function: Manage Keystone-specific service functions, including hardware, OS, and software releases, critical functionality patches, advisories, vulnerabilities, technical risk mitigation, and firmware updates.
•Planning and Execution: Conduct general planning for OS, software, hardware upgrades, patch installations, data migration, and design best practices. Develop and execute roll-back plans and best practices recommendations.
•Data Management: Utilize data management tools to oversee Keystone capacity utilization on an estate-wide and per-customer basis, including performance levels, capacity committed and consumed, physical capacity consumed, data efficiency ratio, IOPS delivered, latency delivered, capacity thresholds, and performance thresholds.
•Reporting and Maintenance: Collect and maintain data on hardware health, OS version status, firmware status, incident status, EOS status, on-site installed tool status, software licensing status, support contract, and entitlement status.
•Push Communications and Interfacing: Disseminate risks, alerts and security bulletins and work closely with Keystone Success Managers, Support Account Managers, Deployment Team and CSD to ensure distillation of the important aspects to all relevant teams.
•Advanced Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve complex issues related to Keystone products, customer environments, and associated cloud environments (Azure, Google Cloud Provider, AWS).
•Customer Support: Respond to post-sales customer support issues via phone, email, web, or chat.
•Research and Analysis: Collect and analyze multi-platform logs to identify issues and determine root causes.
•Collaboration: Work closely with other Technical Support Engineers and escalation teams to facilitate quick solutions and identify defects.
•Knowledge Sharing: Create new knowledge base articles and improve existing ones for reuse throughout the Technical Support Center.
•Mentorship: Mentor and coach fellow Technical Support Engineers, share best practices, and influence decisions within immediate and adjacent teams.
Job Requirements
Job Requirements
•Experience: 5+ years of relevant technical support experience.
•Technical Skills: Extensive hands-on experience with networking protocols and storage technologies (e.g., NFS, CIFS, SAN, iSCSI, TCP/IP, RAID). Proven experience with NetApp Storage Systems (ONTAP 9 AFF/ASA/FAS, E-Series) and associated management tools.
•Certifications: NCDA Certification within first 6 months of hire
•Cloud and Virtualization: Experience with virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix) and cloud solutions, emphasizing performance issue detection under load.
•Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, plus one or more of the following languages: Japanese, French, or German.
•Problem-Solving: Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues using advanced analytical and creative problem-solving skills. Capacity to proactively identify potential issues, raise concerns early, and propose innovative, preventative resolutions.
•Interpersonal Skills: Strong interpersonal skills to effectively manage stressful or ambiguous situations and deliver superior customer service.
•Technical Expertise: Familiarity with ancillary technologies such as DNS, NIS, and Active Directory. Expertise in performance troubleshooting, including diagnosing issues in NetApp systems (throughput, latency, high-load bottlenecks).
•Collaboration: Established track record of collaborating with senior internal and external stakeholders and contributing to cross-team initiatives.
•Fluency in Japanese and English
求人要項
雇用形態：正社員・期間の定め無
試⽤期間：3か月（試用期間中の勤務条件に変更はありません）
就業時間：9:00－17:30 （フレックス制 or 裁量労働制）
休⽇：完全週休2日制（土・日）、有給休暇、夏季休暇（3日）、年末年始（12/29～1/3）、ボランティア休暇（5日間）、私傷病・ファミリー休暇、Global Wellness Day、出産休暇（20週）、育児休暇（10日間）、養老介護休暇（10日間）
・通勤交通費、社会保険完備
・確定拠出型年金、NetApp独自の保険プログラム（団体総合生活保障保険、総合福祉団体定期保険、団体長期障害所得補償保険）、インフルエンザ予防接種、エンプロイー・アシスタンス・プログラム、英語自己啓発サポート、社員持ち株会（ESPP）
勤務地：
東京オフィス（東京都中央区京橋２－１－３京橋トラストタワー）
※受動喫煙措置についての記載：屋内禁煙（屋内喫煙可能場所あり）
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