Senior Server Engineer

Confidential Company; Dubai; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Company in Dubai seeks a Senior Server Storage SME to design and deliver enterprise infrastructure solutions across server storage virtualization, backup and DR for our UAE clients. You will lead presales activities, discovery workshops and RFP responses while architecting hybrid and multi-cloud workloads.

The role requires 5-6 years UAE experience in server/storage architecture, plus a UAE driving license and strong customer-facing skills.

Qualifications

• 5-6 years UAE experience in server and storage architecture.
• Valid UAE driving license.
• Strong customer-facing and presentation skills.
• Arabic speakers preferred.
• Immediate joiner preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end server storage virtualization, backup and DR solutions with HLD/LLD and architecture documents.
• Lead presales activities: discovery workshops, requirements gathering, sizing, BOMs, technical proposals and RFP/RFI responses.
• Present and defend solutions in customer meetings, demos and executive briefings.
• Architect hybrid and multi-cloud solutions and lead workload migration initiatives.
• Define RPO/RTO requirements and build disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Provide technical leadership across the project lifecycle and act as escalation point for complex issues.
• Run PoCs/PoVs and collaborate with technology vendors and partners.

Skills

Customer-facing

Presentation skills

Communication

Problem solving

Relationship building

Tools

VMware vSphere

Nutanix AHV

PowerShell

Python

Ansible

Terraform

SolarWinds

Zabbix

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Server Storage SME to design and deliver enterprise infrastructure solutions across server storage virtualization backup and DR for our customers in the UAE.

Job Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end server storage virtualization backup and DR solutions including HLD LLD and architecture documents
• Lead presales activities discovery workshops requirement gathering sizing BOMs technical proposals and RFP RFI responses
• Present and defend solutions in customer meetings demos and executive briefings
• Architect hybrid and multi-cloud solutions and lead workload migration initiatives
• Define RPO RTO requirements and build disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
• Provide technical leadership across the project lifecycle and act as the escalation point for complex issues
• Run PoCs PoVs and work closely with technology vendors and partners

Technical expertise

• Compute: Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant, Cisco UCS, Lenovo ThinkSystem, HCI, NVIDIA GPU infrastructure
• Storage: SAN, NAS, Object Storage, SDS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, Dell EMC PowerStore, PowerMax, Unity XT, NetApp ONTAP, Pure Storage, HPE Alletra, Primera, IBM FlashSystem
• Virtualization: VMware vSphere, VCF, vSAN, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V, Azure Stack HCI, Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP
• Backup & DR: Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, Cohesity, Veritas NetBackup
• OS: Windows Server, RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE
• Automation: Monitoring Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Terraform, SolarWinds, ManageEngine, PRTG, Zabbix

Requirements

• 5-6 years of UAE experience in server and storage architecture
• Valid UAE driving license
• Strong customer-facing and presentation skills
• Arabic speakers preferred
• Immediate Joiner Preferred