Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer

Location: Client Premises, Dubai, UAE

Salary: AED 11,000 to 14,000 per month

Benefits: Work visa, air tickets, medical insurance, gratuity, paid time off

Experience Required: Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience

Reference: FZ-AE-372

Job Purpose

As a Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the stability, integrity, and peak performance of a mission-critical hybrid ecosystem for our client, a major aviation leader in UAE. You will manage high-scale private and public cloud platforms, ensuring that the infrastructure backbone—from physical Cisco UCS hardware to containerized Kubernetes workloads—supports the seamless, around-the-clock operations of a multi-billion dollar airline.

Key Responsibilities

• Hybrid Cloud Orchestration: Lead the deployment, management, and security of resources across AWS (EC2, Lambda, R53, S3), OCI, and Azure, optimizing for high availability and cost-efficiency.

  
  

• Compute & Virtualization Excellence: Act as the subject matter expert for Cisco UCS (C and B series), managing Fabric Interconnects and profiling. Build and migrate VMware vSphere and OLVM clusters to ensure robust virtualization layers.

  
  

• Container Management: Maintain and optimize containerized environments using Rancher/Kubernetes, ensuring seamless orchestration for modern application workloads.

  
  

• OS Lifecycle & L3 Support: Perform expert-level Red Hat Linux (RHEL) administration, including complex patching, system hardening to global standards, and resolving high-level L3 support issues.

  
  

• Data Continuity & Storage: Manage enterprise-grade storage solutions (Pure Storage) and lead backup operations using Commvault and AWS Backup to ensure data resilience.

  
  

• Operational Standards: Set and enforce standards for monitoring (Dynatrace), maintenance, and optimization across all private and public cloud systems in a 24/7 shift environment.

  
  

Required Skills & Experience

• Infrastructure Mastery: 5–8 years of expert hands-on experience with Cisco UCS, VMware, and OLVM.

  
  

• Cloud & Containers: Proven expertise in AWS Cloud Operations (SysOps/Security) and OCI; intermediate to expert proficiency in Rancher/Kubernetes.

  
  

• OS & Storage: Expert-level Red Hat Linux (RHEL) administration; deep knowledge of Pure Storage and Commvault backup systems.

  
  

• Certifications: Professional certifications in RHEL, AWS, Azure, VMware, or Enterprise Storage are highly preferred.

  
  

• Operational Readiness: Proven ability to troubleshoot L3 issues in a high-pressure, 24/7 operational environment.