Senior Data Center & Cloud Migration Engineer

CNS Middle East; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

CNS Middle East is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design, deploy and migrate data-centre infrastructure for customers, including servers, storage, backup and cloud. You will handle assessment, design, cut-over, handover and L3 support.

Responsibilities include planning migrations, building VMs, configuring SAN/NAS, and enabling hybrid cloud (Azure/AWS). 10+ years in infra with UAE/GCC experience is required; certifications are highly valued.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in systems infrastructure with hands-on deployment and migration experience.
• Delivery of end-to-end data-centre, server, storage, backup and cloud migrations.
• Experience as systems integrator or managed-services in UAE/GCC.

Responsibilities

• Design, install and configure servers, storage, backup and virtualization for projects.
• Plan and execute data-centre migrations with minimal downtime and cut-overs.
• Design and deploy hybrid Azure/AWS infrastructure and site-to-site connectivity.
• Provide L3 support and perform root-cause analysis for incidents.
• Prepare migration plans, runbooks and MDs for each project.

Skills

Tech delivery leadership

Client engagement

Documentation

Pre-sales support

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or Engineering

MCSE Server / Core Infrastructure

VMware VCP-DCV / VCAP

AZ-104 / AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Veeam VMCE, Commvault, Veritas

Tools

VMware vSphere

VMware vCenter

VMware vSAN

Hyper-V

HPE ProLiant / Dell PowerEdge

Windows Server

Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu)

SAN/NAS

Veeam Backup & Replication

DR design & testing

Azure / AWS (IaaS, storage, backup, hybrid)

PowerShell

Nutanix AHV

VMware HCX

Pure Storage / HPE Alletra

Ansible / Terraform

Job description

CNS Middle East is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design, deploy and migrate data-centre infrastructure for customers, including servers, storage, backup and cloud. You will handle assessment, design, cut-over, handover and L3 support.

Responsibilities include planning migrations, building VMs, configuring SAN/NAS, and enabling hybrid cloud (Azure/AWS). 10+ years in infra with UAE/GCC experience is required; certifications are highly valued.