Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer for Enterprise

Apparel Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Apparel Group is seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer to lead enterprise infrastructure across data centre, cloud, security, identity, collaboration, and end-user platforms. You will serve as the highest technical escalation point for the Workplace Technology team, ensuring availability, security, and performance across global IT.

Responsibilities include managing VMware, SAN storage, AD/Entra ID, Microsoft 365, endpoint and email security, backups, disaster recovery,

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years in Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Administration, or Enterprise Platforms.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments with thousands of users.
• Strong background in Microsoft technologies, virtualization, storage, cloud platforms, and cybersecurity.
• Experience managing enterprise backup, recovery, and business continuity processes.
• Demonstrated success delivering infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and transformation projects.

Responsibilities

• Oversee VMware infrastructure including vCenter and ESXi, optimizing performance and lifecycle management.
• Administer physical and virtual server environments ensuring high availability and security compliance.
• Monitor infrastructure health and coordinate hardware maintenance and vendor support.
• Administer SAN storage across platforms for performance and resilience.
• Manage Active Directory, Entra ID, DNS, DHCP, and group policy to support large user populations.
• Administer Microsoft 365 services including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, Entra ID.
• Lead backup and disaster recovery across servers, endpoints and cloud workloads.
• Implement security monitoring, EDR, and email security; respond to incidents.
• Lead patch management and deployment programs; drive automation.
• Manage Azure and OCI cloud environments; governance and cost optimization.
• Mentor engineers and document procedures; drive infrastructure projects.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Storage administration

Active Directory & Entra ID

Microsoft 365 administration

Backup & disaster recovery

Endpoint security

Email security (Mimecast)

Patch management

Azure administration

OCI administration

Windows Server

PowerShell automation

Tools

VMware vCenter

CrowdStrike

Mimecast

Commvault

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Job description

Apparel Group is seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer to lead enterprise infrastructure across data centre, cloud, security, identity, collaboration, and end-user platforms. You will serve as the highest technical escalation point for the Workplace Technology team, ensuring availability, security, and performance across global IT.

Responsibilities include managing VMware, SAN storage, AD/Entra ID, Microsoft 365, endpoint and email security, backups, disaster recovery,