Senior Infrastructure Specialist Expert

Role Summary

We are hiring a Senior Infrastructure Specialist Expert to lead infrastructure design and operations across the client's ISD data centre, cloud, and hybrid estate. The role owns server, storage, network, and virtualisation operations end-to-end, including capacity planning, high availability, and DR.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead operations of enterprise compute (Windows / Linux), storage (Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE), and virtualisation (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V).

- Own data centre capacity planning and growth forecasting.

- Drive infrastructure high availability and disaster recovery design — including DR runbooks and drills.

- Govern infrastructure security hardening — CIS benchmarks, OS patching, configuration baselines.

- Lead hybrid cloud architecture and operations (Azure / AWS connectivity to on-prem).

- Manage Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and core infrastructure services.

- Conduct infrastructure performance tuning and root cause analysis.

- Manage vendor relationships for infrastructure licences, support contracts, and refreshes.

- Mentor junior infrastructure team members.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or Networking.

- 10+ years' experience in enterprise infrastructure across compute, storage, and virtualisation.

- VMware VCP-DCV mandatory; VCAP / VCDX strongly preferred.

- Microsoft Server expert level — Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell scripting.

- Storage administration on at least one major platform (Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE, Pure Storage).

- Strong working knowledge of network fundamentals (VLAN, routing, firewalls).

- ITIL v4 Foundation.

- Native or fluent Arabic AND professional English — preferred (not mandatory).

Preferred / Nice to Have

- Microsoft MCSE / Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

- Linux Red Hat RHCE.

- Backup / DR platform certifications (Veeam VMCA, Commvault).

- Experience with hyperconverged infrastructure (Nutanix, vSAN).

- Prior Qatar government infrastructure experience.