Job title: Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

Job type

Full time

Job Level

Senior Team Member

Experience

3-5

Functions

Information Technology and Networks

Languages

English
Arabic

Design and validate the private cloud architecture considering the required BoM based on the sizing, the cabling, and the network required.
Design a Hyber Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions based on VMware products like vRealize Automation and vSAN, familiar with SDDC technologies like SDS and SDN.
Design and validate the architecture of the solution based on the virtualization, baremetal setup, or containerization using K8s and OpenShift.
Familiarity with OpenStack technology to build a private cloud with CEPH storage, creating the tenants, managing its permissions, and allocate the required compute resources.
Experience on public clouds mainly for GCP, AWS, and Azzure.
Familiarity to work on other platforms like Nutanix.
Understanding the architecture of the network and how to do the connectivity and their types, the best practises for the traffic toward the SRs, ToR and core switches.
Understanding the network segregation and vLANs, the best practises for the design to enhance the data protectivity and the network security.
Sizing of the solution in terms of storage, compute

and networking.

Evaluate the various technical offers and putting the recommendations based on the best practises by OJO.

Provisoining the virtual machines and resources through Horizon and vRealize Automation, beside the standard vCenter and vSphere tools.

Provisioning/managing the resources through Horizon-Open Stack.

Study and evaluate the best design of the solution to make it highly available using the different load balancing and clustering technology that can be applied.

Validate the design of the solution from end to end, contacting all the concerned parties to cover all the aspects of the solution design.

Manage the Security By Design of the solution including the various security controls like WAF, SIEM, VA assesment (solving the vulneribility findings report).

Managing the solution design and build implementation life cycle as project from end to end (based on waterfall or agile project management), full understanding the project lifecycle and all of the phases inside.

Manage environment of IS Data Centre Sites for hosting Hardware Equipment to ensure compliance with standard Operating Specifications.

Manage core computer servers & storage hardware installation & configuration to ensure proper implementation and application accessibility.

Manage user's office automation Services for Internal domain & Intra/Internet, Email, Directory, File, Fax, and Print systems to improve user's productivity.

Manage systems performance & protection services of Backup & Recovery, Patch Mgmt., Anti-Virus/Spam, Intrusion Systems, Performance Monitoring, and Centralized Scheduling tools to improve systems reliability, access control, and efficiency.

Facilitate and Implement the design of the Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Readiness & Test Drills to ensure equipment standby operability and accessibility by business units to activate mission critical applications in disaster situation.

Manage to build standard KPIs for the systems dashboard that will identify the dimensioning of the systems and capacity planning.

Identify the dimensioning process for business applications in terms of middleware and database for upgrade/expansion or enhancement.

Support functional team for having a new business solution for the infrastructure layer sizing and requirements.

Maximize System Proactive Security Measures, minimize down-times & recovery windows, and maximize systems efficiency, effective Integrated Monitoring, Alarming and Escalation Schemes.

Performs other duties as assigned, that is related to technical domain.

Project Management, Good Communication, Problem Solving, English Language Proficiency, Negotiation Skills;

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS.
- Minimum of 3-5 years experience in IT Technology & different systems infrastructure platforms.