Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description

Our client is looking to hire a Sr. Infrastructure Engineer for a 12-month extendable contract to join their Abu Dhabi team immediately.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, or any related field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in Information Technology with a focus on IT Infrastructure.
• Experience with incident ticketing systems, workstation management systems and desktop imaging.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, office 365 workloads.
• Excellent knowledge of Nutanix / VMware setups and configurations.
• Azure / AWS Cloud certified.
• Good knowledge of security as it relates to cloud-based infrastructure.
• Experience using automated monitoring tools.
• Ability to identify incident trends to elevate incidents in accordance with standard protocols.
• Good attention to detail, testing, and documentation.
• Knowledge of ITIL and industry best practices
• Strong virtualization experience using Hyper-converged environments and Virtualization.  
• Proven ability to work in a cloud-based or hosting environment.
• Experience working with Backup solutions and NetApp storage.
• Proven track record with hosted desktop and published applications 
• Ability to maintain good working relationships with third-party service providers and vendors

Responsibilities:

• Develop reports pertaining to the overall performance of the client’s infrastructure server resources to ensure that all business units receive appropriate and timely support.
• Monitor on-prem and cloud infrastructure services proactively/reactively and take action.
• Monitor server availability, capacity, and sustainability for an organization to ensure the smooth running of business operations and report system health checks regularly.
• Manage on-premises infrastructure hosted in Nutanix and VMware clusters.
• Manage infrastructure components and resources in Azure Cloud.
• Handle the installation and maintenance of the workplace physical and virtual servers, infrastructure applications for all systems, replacement of old servers, and all related operating systems to ensure they are all operating effectively to achieve the client’s objectives.
• Gather and analyze user requirements to identify, predict, interpret, and determine future system capacity and sizing requirements.
• Ensure that an up-to-date enterprise inventory of the organization’s IT infrastructure components is maintained and regularly updated.
• Manage and maintain infrastructure system operation workload of (Domains, AD, Email, DNS, etc…) and maintain user management across the organization on-premise and Cloud including (Office 365, Exchange, Sharepoint, oneDrive, MS Teams, etc.)
• Security patch management and vulnerability management
• Coordinates and works on multiple cross-functional base work initiatives and projects.
• Oversee the backup and restoration operations of systems, applications, and data repositories.
• Manage infrastructure applications and operating systems licensing system (KMS) and keep track of license inventories and renewals.
• Manage enterprise-level repair troubleshooting with servers, storage, and client user systems.
• Prepare recommendations for current product updates, new products and standards and implement appropriate solutions in consultation with the IT Infrastructure.
• Provide the necessary support for assigned business units of the client’s IT infrastructure service. 

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