Location: Client Premises, Dubai, UAE Salary: AED 11,000 to 14,000 per month Benefits: Work visa, air tickets, medical insurance, gratuity, paid time off Experience Required: Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience Job Purpose As a Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the stability, integrity, and peak performance of a mission-critical hybrid ecosystem for our client, a major aviation leader in UAE. You will manage high-scale private and public cloud platforms, ensuring that the infrastructure backbone—from physical Cisco UCS hardware to containerized Kubernetes workloads—supports the seamless, around-the-clock operations of a multi-billion dollar airline. Key Responsibilities • Hybrid Cloud Orchestration: Lead the deployment, management, and security of resources across AWS (EC2, Lambda, R53, S3), OCI, and Azure, optimizing for high availability and cost-efficiency. • Compute & Virtualization Excellence: Act as the subject matter expert for Cisco UCS (C and B series), managing Fabric Interconnects and profiling. Build and migrate VMware vSphere and OLVM clusters to ensure robust virtualization layers. • Container Management: Maintain and optimize containerized environments using Rancher/Kubernetes, ensuring seamless orchestration for modern application workloads. • OS Lifecycle & L3 Support: Perform expert-level Red Hat Linux (RHEL) administration, including complex patching, system hardening to global standards, and resolving high-level L3 support issues. • Data Continuity & Storage: Manage enterprise-grade storage solutions (Pure Storage) and lead backup operations using Commvault and AWS Backup to ensure data resilience. • Operational Standards: Set and enforce standards for monitoring (Dynatrace), maintenance, and optimization across all private and public cloud systems in a 24/7 shift environment. Required Skills & Experience • Infrastructure Mastery: 5–8 years of expert hands-on experience with Cisco UCS, VMware, and OLVM. • Cloud & Containers: Proven expertise in AWS Cloud Operations (SysOps/Security) and OCI; intermediate to expert proficiency in Rancher/Kubernetes. • OS & Storage: Expert-level Red Hat Linux (RHEL) administration; deep knowledge of Pure Storage and Commvault backup systems. • Certifications: Professional certifications in RHEL, AWS, Azure, VMware, or Enterprise Storage are highly preferred. • Operational Readiness: Proven ability to troubleshoot L3 issues in a high-pressure, 24/7 operational environment.