Senior Linux Administrator – VMware, Nutanix & OCI (Riyadh)

GoAhead Consulting Limited; Riyadh; Vor Ort; SAR 180.000 - 360.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Goahead Consulting seeks a seasoned Linux Administrator for a prestigious two-year government project based in Riyadh. You will own Linux server builds, kernel tuning, and cloud deployments across VMware, Nutanix, and OCI environments.

The role requires strong documentation, security hardening, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure high availability and robust operational resilience in government data centers.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Systems Engineering or related discipline.
• 4+ years of progressive hands-on enterprise Linux administration and data center operations.
• Strong Linux configurations, shell scripting, and kernel tuning experience.
• Practical VMware vSphere/ESXi and Nutanix HCI expertise.
• Experience with OCI or other cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Knowledge of high-availability clustering, DR planning, storage, and networks.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• Valid Transferable IQAMA and ability to work in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Aufgaben

• Architect, configure, deploy, and maintain Red Hat Linux/Unix servers.
• Administer VMware vSphere/ESXi and vCenter with VM lifecycle management.
• Deploy Nutanix HCI clusters, storage pools, and hypervisors.
• Provision OCI services, compute, networking, and storage components.
• Diagnose OS panics, kernel bottlenecks, and storage anomalies.
• Perform security hardening, patching, ACL reviews, and remediation.
• Collaborate with government IT teams, PMs, and external vendors.
• Maintain infrastructure docs, topologies, backups, and incident records.

Kenntnisse

Linux administration

VMware vSphere

Nutanix AHV/EE

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Shell scripting

Kernel tuning

Security hardening

Troubleshooting

Technical documentation

Communication skills

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Technology/Systems Engineering

Tools

VMware vSphere/ESXi

Nutanix AHV/EE

OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

Kubernetes

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

Jobbeschreibung

Goahead Consulting seeks a seasoned Linux Administrator for a prestigious two-year government project based in Riyadh. You will own Linux server builds, kernel tuning, and cloud deployments across VMware, Nutanix, and OCI environments.

The role requires strong documentation, security hardening, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure high availability and robust operational resilience in government data centers.