Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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

• 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 Open Text Data Protector, including backup job optimization and bare-metal verification testing

• 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 Power Edge, and HPE Pro Liant 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 Open Text Data Protector for legacy tape and disk targets.

Joining time frame: (15 - 30 days)