About NetAppNetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, turning a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. No matter the data type, workload or environment, we help our customers identify and realize new business possibilities. And it all starts with our people.If this sounds like something you want to be part of, NetApp is the place for you. You can help bring new ideas to life, approaching each challenge with fresh eyes. We embrace diversity and openness because it's in our DNA. Of course, you won't be doing it alone. At NetApp, we're all about asking for help when we need it, collaborating with others, and partnering across the organization - and beyond."At NetApp, we fully embrace and advance a diverse, inclusive global workforce with a culture of belonging that leverages the backgrounds and perspectives of all employees, customers, partners, and communities to foster a higher performing organization."-George Kurian, CEOJob SummaryAs customers today increasingly invest and engage in more flexible consumption models, Customer Success plays an increasingly critical role in helping customers shorten the time to value, getting our products sticky and accelerating their business outcome. The Cloud Consumption Customer Success organization plays a critical role with NetApp’s large, strategic cloud customers, leading them through the launch, migrate, optimize and scale phases of their critical cloud storage and data services adoption journey (across our hyper-scaler led first party and NetApp labeled marketplace products).As a Customer Success Engineer (CSE), you are the trusted technical advisor in our account team and a strategic partner to our customers. You are responsible for execution against our customer’s commitment with NetApp (and our Hyper-scaler partner, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and orchestration of cross-functional programs in delivering customer value and business outcomes. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, leverage your technical expertise in cloud storage solutions and deepen your cloud infrastructure and industry expertise.As a CSE, you will be engaged in developing foundational relationships with key customer personas and technical professionals to enable high quality & performance of IT workloads using the partnership with account team leaders, Global SI, Hyper-scaler ecosystem partners. You will be proactively defining customer success plans, success milestones and proactively orchestrating the same. You will help align consumption strategies to customer’s business and implementation priorities.Job RequirementsCustomer relationship & engagementCreate impactful relationship with the Customer, NetApp, and Hyper-scaler account Team with a specific focus on GCP. You will become intimately acquainted with the customer’s business requirements, technical needs, solutions, environment, and service delivery.Work with Customer’s stakeholders to understand and translate customer business requirements into technical solutions and a executable customer success plan.Accelerate production level consumption through delivery orchestration by driving solution and operational health for prominent, challenging, and complex customer organizations across various segments.Proactive Project delivery alignmentProvide guidance and best practices to support the development of a cloud adoption and consumption success plan.Deliver NetApp technical adoption and consumption acceleration activities (experts sessions, best practices) based on customer’s use case and workload defined.Ensure the customer is current on technology and ready to move to cloud, enabling cloud adoption and optimizing cloud storage solutions to manage change and continue to grow in the cloud.Monitor usage trends and customer health to proactively identify challenges and/or optimization opportunities.Account Management- Work with account teams (Client Executives, Cloud specialists, Cloud solution architect) in a Pod operating model, with the highest degree of partnership with common goal in driving consumption.- Lead a monthly account pod review session to drive alignment on consumption goals, milestones and customer engagement strategies. Proactively execute risk mitigation activities as you identify adoption and consumption goal risks.- Collaborate with customers & hyper-scaler counterparts and identify growth opportunities through account planning, customer business reviews and delivery opportunities, submit those expansion opportunities with the sellers.Technical Evangelization- Leverage all technical expertise and enablement to act as a technology advisor and visionary, help connect business to technology, also help customers connect with product management experts.- Share new features and roadmap, articulate how it can support the customer goals and objectives.- Identify adoption blockers and position relevant support & success bundles, professional services, partners and NLS (NetApp Learning Services) offerings.Qualifications8+ years of enterprise cloud software experience is required.At least 3+ years of experience in customer facing roles like CSE/CSE/CSA or solutions consultant or professional services delivery manager or Network administrator.Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Information technology or a related field is desired.In-depth knowledge of Public/Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and GCPGCP platform certifications are desired and a big plus.A strong understanding of the storage industry, private and public cloud environments, virtualization, and cloud management stacksStrong experience with Cluster Data ONTAP and Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) is requiredKnowledge of data center operations and cloud security is desired.Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer-facing environment.Experience demonstrating a significant level of expertise in technical specifications required to sell NetApp Cloud products and services is desired.Excellence in project management and analytical thinking is required.Excellent communication and executive presence is required. #LI-DNIAt NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer:NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, and any protected classification.Did you know...Statistics show women apply to jobs only when they're 100% qualified. But no one is 100% qualified. We encourage you to shift the trend and apply anyway! We look forward to hearing from you.Why NetApp?In a world full of generalists, NetApp is a specialist. No one knows how to elevate the world's biggest clouds like NetApp. We are data-driven and empowered to innovate. Trust, integrity, and teamwork all combine to make a difference for our customers, partners, and communities.We enable a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time per year to volunteer with their favourite organizations. We provide comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and vision plans for you and your family. We offer educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts. Finally, we provide financial savings programs to help you plan for your future.If you want to help us build knowledge and solve big problems, let's talk.