Field Support Engineer
NetApp (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

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Description: As a Field Support Engineer you will be the primary contact for the Technical Support Center (TSC) and will provide, in the field, post-sales services and support for NetApp customers. The typical customer environments that a Field Services Engineer will function within are networked and fibre channel implementations of Unix and/or Windows, interfacing with Network Appliance storage and software. The individual must be a motivated self-starter with demonstrated technical problem solving skills, and a strong customer service orientation and experience.

Essential Functions:
Field Support Engineers assist NetApp customers and Technical Support Engineers through on-site support including:
- Serve as the company's liaison with customers and the Technical Support Center on support cases.
- Interpret customer needs and clarify roles and responsibilities.
- Perform any necessary diagnoses, technical troubleshooting, service, and repair of systems and equipment at customer site.
- Provide all aspects post-sales field support such as system hardware, software, desktop support, networks, etc.
- Create documentation and post-mortem analyses of escalations.
- Ability to travel to customer site with minimal notice provided.
- Work collaboratively with customers in potentially stressful situations, while providing professional and courteous technical expertise.
- Ability to actively participate in, or lead technical team meetings to meet goals and aggressive timeframes.

Education and Experience:- A minimum of 5 years of experience is required. 6 to 8 years of experience is preferred. - A Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent related experience is required. This individual will participate in continuing technical training and available through NetApp.- Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple, moderately complex technical tasks.- Knowledge of commercial databases such as Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft SQL Server, is desired.- Familiarity with multipathing software, volume managers, file systems (such as VERITAS File System), and backup software is desired.- Backup and database applications and/or NetApp software (SnapDrive, SnapMirror, SnapManager) is desired. Qualifications: - Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated excellent customer service experience working with customers in high stress situations.
- Experience providing trace analysis of packets and protocols.
Working knowledge of:
- Data Ontap operating system and NetApp clustering.
- UNIX configuration, administration and technical support.
- Windows NT/2000/2003 configuration, system administration and technical support.
- Fibre Channel HBA configuration and installation.
- NAS and/or SAN storage and surrounding infrastructure.
- Network Attached Storage protocols experience (NFS/CIFS/iSCSI) and related required protocols (DNS, NIS, and Active Directory)
- Network architectures including the roles of routers, and switches
- Microsoft Exchange
- Solid understanding of:
- RAID and storage systems
- NFS, the UNIX remote file sharing protocol
- CIFS, the Windows NT remote file sharing protocol
- Familiarity with:
- NIS, DNS, Routing
- SAN switches and directors
- Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a -customer facing environment.
- At least two years of experience with NetApp systems.
- Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices.
- Creative approach to problem solving.
- Ability to travel more than 70% of the time, with minimal lead time provided.

Responsibility and Interaction:
- Responsibility:
- The tasks this individual is responsible for are often non-routine and unstructured, requiring creative solutions.
- This individual will apply attained experiences and knowledge in solving routine to moderately complex problems.

- Interaction:
- This individual must work effectively with Staff to Vice President level employees within the function, and the technical team on assigned projects. There may be communication with employees in other functions as required.
- Limited management direction is provided to employee on new projects or assignments as well as review of activities and priorities.
- The ideal candidate will be a proactive contributor and subject matter expert on team projects.
- To be successful, this individual must demonstrate favorable results through coaching and influencing others. Salary/Benefits: Salary commensurate with experience To learn more about NetApp employee benefits go to: http://www.netapp.com/jobs/benefits.html Job Location: Minneapolis, MN Job Number: RUSANAP2115-591721 Company URL: http://www.netapp.com Company Profile: NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that help accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.

Customers around the world choose us for our "go beyond" approach and broad portfolio of solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before. You can rely on our industry-leading solutions to lower the cost of protecting your data, business, and reputation.

We bring together the industry's best partners and technology to deliver services that help you maximize what you are getting from your infrastructure. Our collaborative approach, working as one team with one goal, means that you get a solution that is just right for you-on time and on budget. To support your global business, we provide highly-responsive support in local languages. From London to Austin, from Bangalore to Tokyo, well work with you to solve your problems and help you reach your goals.

Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.