Senior Infrastructure Engineer

VAM Systems is currently looking for Senior Infrastructure Engineer for our Bahrain operations with the following skillsets & terms and conditions:

Role Requirements

• Experience: 5 years in UNIX/Linux Systems Administration with a proven track record of root-cause troubleshooting OS upgradation lifecycle patching and firmware upgrades across severe hardware/OS infrastructure disruptions.
• Hypervisor Mastery: Engineering-level competence maintaining guest workloads and virtual layers across LDOMs VMware KVM and Hyper-V environments.
• Hardware Network & OS Expertise: Deep cross-functional proficiency in managing multi-vendor compute hardware architectures alongside multiple operating systems (Solaris SPARC & enterprise Linux) coupled with a strong foundational knowledge of core network infrastructure (switching routing and VLAN isolation tools).
• Data Protection Competency: Proven experience managing enterprise backup fabrics using Veeam and OpenText Data Protector including backup job optimization and bare-metal verification testing

Key Responsibilities 

• OS Upgradation & Lifecycle Patching: Architect plan and execute zero-downtime OS upgradation and monthly OS patching schedules across a mixed fleet of Oracle Solaris 10/11 and enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL/Ubuntu) using native utilities such as Solaris Alternate Boot Environments (ABE) pkg beadm and Linux yum/dnf/apt.
• Firmware Upgrade & Hardware Remediation: Routinely manage firmware upgrades for critical platform assets including system BIOS/UEFI storage controllers host bus adapters (HBAs) and network interfaces across multi-vendor systems (Oracle/Sun SPARC servers Dell PowerEdge and HPE ProLiant frames). Isolate troubleshoot and fix complex physical hardware faults.
• Platform Operations & Troubleshooting: Maintain tune and optimize bare-metal systems and guest kernels. Rapidly diagnose and fix critical OS-level panics memory leaks and performance bottlenecks using advanced tools like DTrace or system core dumps.
• Virtualization Architecture: Plan deploy and allocate compute memory and storage boundaries across enterprise infrastructure utilizing LDOMs VMware KVM and Hyper-V hypervisors.
• KVM Implementation & Tuning: Deploy configure and maintain KVM hypervisors using virsh and libvirt optimizing VirtIO kernel modules and guest image formats for high-throughput enterprise Linux applications.
• Network Integration & Routing: Apply advanced Networking Knowledge to manage host-level network configurations including 802.1Q VLAN tagging LACP link aggregation/bonding and virtual switching. Implement and troubleshoot static routing tables manage multi-homed systems and prevent asymmetric routing across production tiers.
• Enterprise Backup & Recovery Operations: Manage and orchestrate large-scale data retention policies backup jobs and bare-metal disaster recovery strategies. Administer Veeam Backup & Replication for virtualized workloads alongside OpenText Data Protector for legacy tape and disk targets.

Terms and conditions

Joining time frame: (15 - 30 days)

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time