Senior Server & Storage Architect: Hybrid Cloud & DR Leader

Confidential Company; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Company is seeking a Senior Server Storage Solution Architect in the UAE to design enterprise infrastructure across server storage, virtualization, backup and DR for clients in the region.

You will lead presales activities, run discovery sessions, gather requirements, size solutions, prepare BOMs, and create technical proposals. The role requires UAE experience, strong client-facing skills and ability to present to executives.

Qualifications

• 5–6 years UAE experience in server and storage architecture.
• Strong customer-facing and presentation skills.
• Experience leading presales activities, discovery, sizing and BOMs.
• Proven ability to present, defend and drive complex technical proposals.
• Arabic language skills preferred; UAE driving license required.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end server, storage, virtualization, backup and DR solutions with HLD/LLD and architecture docs.
• Lead presales activities, discovery workshops, sizing, BOMs, 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 migrations.
• Define RPO/RTO requirements and build DR/BC strategies.
• Provide technical leadership across projects and escalate complex issues.
• Run PoCs/PoVs and collaborate with vendors and partners.

Skills

Presales & discovery workshops

Solution architecture

Customer-facing skills

5–6 years UAE experience

Arabic language

Tools

Dell PowerEdge

HPE ProLiant

Cisco UCS

Lenovo ThinkSystem

VMware vSphere

VCF

Nutanix AHV

Hyper‑V

Azure Stack HCI

Microsoft Azure

AWS

GCP

Veeam

Rubrik

Commvault

Cohesity

Veritas NetBackup OS

Dell EMC PowerStore

PowerMax

Unity XT

NetApp ONTAP

Pure Storage

HPE Alletra

Primera

IBM FlashSystem

VMware vSphere

RHEL

Ubuntu

SUSE

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

Terraform

SolarWinds

ManageEngine

PRTG

Zabbix

Job description

Confidential Company is seeking a Senior Server Storage Solution Architect in the UAE to design enterprise infrastructure across server storage, virtualization, backup and DR for clients in the region.

You will lead presales activities, run discovery sessions, gather requirements, size solutions, prepare BOMs, and create technical proposals. The role requires UAE experience, strong client-facing skills and ability to present to executives.