Job Description
We are seeking a hands-on technical Platform engineering lead who will manage a team of Platform Engineers accountable for enterprise-wide system administration, availability, performance, costs, security and risk management for Network International's global infrastructure estate.
The infrastructure landscape spans across multiple geographic regions including UAE, KSA, South Africa and wider Africa. It covers core platforms like Oracle/x86, Oracle VM, VMWare, Hyper-V, Unix, Linux and Windows servers, storage systems, data protection, Network, Network security and Databases.
The Platform engineering team provides 24/7 engineering support for this complex interconnected system ecosystem that underpins the company's technology operations and services delivery
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor and motivate the platform/infrastructure Platform support team
- Monitor and enhance stability, efficiency, and compliance of infrastructure
- Guide capacity planning, upgrades aligned to business requirements
- Drive automation initiatives to simplify and optimize platform management
- Liaise with architecture and Infosec teams on infrastructure modernization
- Report on utilization, performance, and availability metrics
- Continually identify and mitigate risks through audits and remediation
- Manage vendor relationships regarding underlying infrastructure technologies
- Ensure that infrastructure changes are managed and follow agreed standard processes
- Ensure that Changes to applications are performed within the Architecture guidelines
- Provide first level support for incidents and problems related front end solutions
- Ensure that incidents and problems do not impact the agreed service levels
- Manage services from relevant vendors
- Responsible for disaster recovery of NI systems & data centers. Work closely with other teams to
achieve overall disaster recovery and continuity to suit organizational needs.
- Provide data protection, recovery, and business continuity
Desired Qualifications:
- Degree level from a recognized university in computer science or relevant subject
- 5+ years of experience in a Technology / IT function in a recognized international organization
- In-depth knowledge of x86 & SPARC Hardware, Solaris OS & Oracle Virilizations (LDOMS/Zones)
- In-depth knowledge of RedHat Linux OS + Windows Server
- In-depth knowledge of VMWare vSphere, vRCLI & vROPS, ARIA
- Excellent Knowledge in High-end and Mid-range storages (PowerMax/PowerStore/DataDomain/ECS) including design and replication technologies.
- In-depth Knowledge of Enterprise backup solutions (Networker/NetBackup).
- In-depth Knowledge in Veritas Cluster including fault tolerant configuration and maintenance.
- Design and deploy systems with HA.
- Should have very strong working knowledge on OS & Infrastructure Application patching, maintaining
- Oracle Solaris (11) Patching Repository, RedHat Satellite servers & Qualys patching tool.
- Performance Tuning skills in OS (Unix/Linux) / Storage & Backup.
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Job Description
We are seeking a Unix/Linux Engineer who will be accountable for availability, performance, costs, and risks related to all Oracle Hardware, Oracle Virtualization, Unix / Linux OS, VMWare, High-end and Midrange storages, and backups.
The Systems Engineer will provide enterprise-wide Unix/Linux/VMWare System infrastructure support for
complex system and interconnected technologies that require day-today support and administration to
maintain optimum performance and utilization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide support in the following areas: Solaris/Linux Systems
- Operational Support and server virtualization, Enterprise Backup solutions Availability of the services.
- Performance and quality of the services
- Capacity management of the services
- Incident and Problem management in Solaris/Linux/VMWare/Backup domains
- Infrastructure management consists of the following domains.
- System Management unit is responsible for of the management of Solaris/Linux/VMWare
environment.
- Management Mid-Range & High-End Storage and backup solutions like Networker/ NetBackup.
- Ensures data is stored securely and available at all point in time for business recovery.
Desired Qualification:
- Degree level from a recognized university in computer science or relevant subject
- 5+ years of experience in a Technology / IT function in a recognized international organization
- In-depth knowledge of SPARC Hardware and Solaris OS & Oracle Virilizations (LDOMS/Zones)
- In-depth knowledge of RedHat Linux OS
- In-depth knowledge of VMWare vSphere, vRCLI & vROPS, ARIA
- Excellent Knowledge in High-end and Mid-range storages (PowerMax/PowerStore/DataDomain/ECS) including design and replication technologies.
- In-depth Knowledge of Enterprise backup solutions (Networker/NetBackup).
- In-depth Knowledge in Veritas Cluster including fault tolerant configuration and maintenance.
- Design and deploy systems with HA.
- Should have very strong working knowledge on OS & Infrastructure Application patching, maintaining Oracle Solaris (11) Patching Repository, RedHat Satellite servers & Qualys patching tool.
- Performance Tuning skills in OS (Unix/Linux) / Storage & Backup.
- Excellent Knowledge in Ansible automation tools and scripting
- Experience in Public Cloud (OCI/Azure/AWS
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