About the job Senior Infrastructure Specialist Expert (Doha, Qatar, Onsite)
Role Summary
We are hiring a Senior Infrastructure Specialist Expert to lead infrastructure design and operations across the client's ISD data centre, cloud, and hybrid estate. The role owns server, storage, network, and virtualisation operations end-to-end, including capacity planning, high availability, and DR.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead operations of enterprise compute (Windows / Linux), storage (Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE), and virtualisation (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V).
- Own data centre capacity planning and growth forecasting.
- Drive infrastructure high availability and disaster recovery design — including DR runbooks and drills.
- Govern infrastructure security hardening — CIS benchmarks, OS patching, configuration baselines.
- Lead hybrid cloud architecture and operations (Azure / AWS connectivity to on-prem).
- Manage Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and core infrastructure services.
- Conduct infrastructure performance tuning and root cause analysis.
- Manage vendor relationships for infrastructure licences, support contracts, and refreshes.
- Mentor junior infrastructure team members.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or Networking.
- 10+ years' experience in enterprise infrastructure across compute, storage, and virtualisation.
- VMware VCP-DCV mandatory; VCAP / VCDX strongly preferred.
- Microsoft Server expert level — Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell scripting.
- Storage administration on at least one major platform (Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE, Pure Storage).
- Strong working knowledge of network fundamentals (VLAN, routing, firewalls).
- ITIL v4 Foundation.
- Native or fluent Arabic AND professional English — preferred (not mandatory).
Preferred / Nice to Have
- Microsoft MCSE / Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
- Linux Red Hat RHCE.
- Backup / DR platform certifications (Veeam VMCA, Commvault).
- Experience with hyperconverged infrastructure (Nutanix, vSAN).
- Prior Qatar government infrastructure experience.