Senior Infrastructure Specialist Expert (Doha, Qatar, Onsite) Doha, Qatar

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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.