Senior Systems Engineer​/Administrator | UAE

We are actively seeking an experienced, high-caliber, and technical Senior Systems Engineer / Administrator with a minimum of 7 years of progressive professional experience in systems administration, infrastructure management, and enterprise application support to join our client on a 1-year contract basis (12 working months) in Abu Dhabi, UAE (Abu Dhabi local candidates preferred). In this critical systems engineering role, you will be responsible for managing, supporting, securing, and optimizing enterprise application platforms and underlying infrastructure across large-scale enterprise or government environments.

You will leverage your deep specialist expertise in Windows and Linux environments, application servers, databases, middleware, and IAM/RBAC protocols to deliver uncompromised system availability, high performance, and operational excellence. This opportunity offers competitive contracting compensation, executive technical visibility, and exceptional career growth prospects within a premier regional enterprise technology and digital transformation ecosystem.

As a Senior Systems Engineer / Administrator supporting our enterprise operations in Abu Dhabi, UAE, you will take full operational, tactical, and technical ownership of enterprise systems administration, platform support, infrastructure security, and release management. Your day-to-day responsibilities include managing, supporting, securing, and optimizing enterprise application platforms and underlying infrastructure in large-scale government and enterprise environments, administering Windows and Linux operating system environments, maintaining application servers, databases, middleware, storage systems, and complex system integrations, executing high availability, backup, disaster recovery, patching, and software upgrades, implementing Identity and Access Management (IAM), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Microsoft 365, API gateways, and digital signature integrations, providing L2/L3 technical support, leading incident management, root-cause analysis (RCA), and release management, enforcing security controls, audit requirements, and GRC remediation, and leveraging specialized experience in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), EDMS, archiving, Everteam, or Intalio platforms where applicable.

You will utilize your proactive troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills to resolve complex systems anomalies under strict project delivery timelines. Furthermore, you will manage application requirements.

• Manage, support, secure, and optimize enterprise application platforms and underlying infrastructure in large-scale environments.
• Administer, configure, and maintain robust Windows and Linux server environments across distributed sites.
• Oversee application servers, databases, middleware, storage systems, and complex enterprise system integrations.
• Execute high-availability clustering, robust backup operations, disaster recovery testing, patching, and system upgrades.
• Implement and manage Identity and Access Management (IAM), RBAC, Microsoft 365, API gateways, and digital signature integrations.
• Provide tier-2 and tier-3 technical support, lead incident management, root-cause analysis (RCA), and software release management.
• Ensure strict adherence to security controls, audit requirements, and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) remediation.
• Manage Enterprise Content Management (ECM), EDMS, archiving, Everteam, or Intalio platform solutions where applicable.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 7+ years of progressive professional experience in systems administration, systems engineering, or enterprise infrastructure support.
• Strong, demonstrable hands‑on professional expertise in Windows and/or Linux server administration and environment hardening.
• Comprehensive working knowledge of application servers, enterprise databases, middleware, storage, and system integrations.
• Solid practical experience with high availability, backup strategies, disaster recovery planning, patching, and system upgrades.
• Working knowledge of IAM, RBAC, Microsoft 365 administration, API gateways, and digital signature integrations.
• Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, debugging, and problem-solving capabilities under high-pressure enterprise conditions.
• Excellent written and verbal English…