Senior Infrastructure Lead

99brightminds; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

99BrightMinds is seeking a highly experienced Senior Infrastructure Lead (VMware) to lead and support enterprise virtualization and data center operations for a major airline organization in the GCC. The role requires deep hands-on VMware expertise and mastery of storage, backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure security.

You will administer VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter, manage HA/DRS/vMotion for high availability and migrations, deploy vSAN, NSX, and oversee upgrades, security hardening,

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on expertise in VMware technologies, infrastructure architecture, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and security in mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and optimize VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter environments.

Skills

VMware technologies

VMware vSphere

VMware ESXi

VMware vCenter

VMware NSX

VMware vSAN

HA

DRS

vMotion

Infrastructure security

Disaster recovery

Backup

Storage administration

Architecture design

Job description

99BrightMinds is seeking a highly experienced Senior Infrastructure Lead (VMware) to lead and support enterprise virtualization and data center operations for a major airline organization in the GCC. This role requires deep hands-on expertise in VMware technologies, infrastructure architecture, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure security within mission-critical environments.

• Administer, maintain, and optimize VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter environments.
• Manage and support VMware HA, DRS, and vMotion to ensure high availability, workload balancing, and seamless migrations across the virtual infrastructure.
• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot VMware vSAN storage solutions to support enterprise workloads and business-critical systems.
• Administer and maintain VMware NSX environments, including network virtualization, micro‑segmentation, and security policies.
• Monitor virtualization platform performance, capacity, and health, ensuring maximum uptime and operational efficiency.
• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades, patches, migrations, and lifecycle management activities.
• Design and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity solutions for VMware workloads.
• Manage integration between VMware platforms, enterprise storage systems, and SAN infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot complex virtualization, compute, storage, and networking issues within the data center environment.
• Implement infrastructure hardening and security best practices across virtualization platforms.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and architecture diagrams.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, security, and application teams to support mission-critical services.
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution of major infrastructure incidents.