Data Center Expert - Saudi National
Jari Solutions
Date: 2 hours ago
City: Riyadh
Contract type: Full time
Industry: Aviation
Work Model: On-site
Location: Riyadh
Job Summary
The Data Center Expert is responsible for the operation, optimization, and continuous improvement of data centers, with a focus on backups, storage, virtualization, and replication systems. This role ensures high availability, security, and scalability of mission-critical infrastructure, driving compliance with industry best practices and organizational requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Work Model: On-site
Location: Riyadh
Job Summary
The Data Center Expert is responsible for the operation, optimization, and continuous improvement of data centers, with a focus on backups, storage, virtualization, and replication systems. This role ensures high availability, security, and scalability of mission-critical infrastructure, driving compliance with industry best practices and organizational requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the daily operation of data centers, ensuring uptime, performance, and reliability of mission-critical infrastructure.
- Manage enterprise storage solutions, including provisioning, replication, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Implement and maintain backup and replication systems using industry-leading platforms such as Veeam and Commvault.
- Operate and optimize virtualization and hyper-converged infrastructure solutions, with a focus on VMware vSAN.
- Monitor capacity, performance, and availability of data center resources, ensuring proactive scaling and optimization.
- Lead data center operations for security, power, cooling, cabling, and physical infrastructure.
- Ensure compliance with best practices for data protection, retention policies, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective/preventive actions for system incidents.
- Develop and maintain documentation, including runbooks, system diagrams, and operational guidelines.
- Collaborate with IT security teams to enforce strict controls for access, monitoring, and system protection.
- Plan and execute system upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management activities.
- Provide escalation-level troubleshooting for complex data center, storage, and virtualization issues.
- Conduct periodic testing of backup and disaster recovery procedures to validate system resilience.
- Ensure adherence to SLAs and compliance requirements for regulated environments.
- Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies in storage, backup, virtualization, and data center management.
- Train and mentor engineers and administrators to strengthen organizational expertise in data center operations.
- Support audits, capacity planning, and reporting to senior management on data center performance and risks.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or related field (Master’s degree preferred).
- Minimum of 10+ years of experience in data center operations, with at least 5 years at an expert level in storage, backup, and replication.
- Proven expertise in enterprise storage management, including SAN, NAS, and hyper-converged systems.
- Strong experience in backup, replication, and disaster recovery with platforms such as Veeam and Commvault.
- Hands-on expertise with VMware vSAN and virtualization technologies.
- In-depth understanding of data center infrastructure, including servers, networking, cooling, and power systems.
- Strong knowledge of ITIL processes and data center operations best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills for enterprise environments.
- Proven experience managing large-scale, mission-critical data centers.
- Strong documentation, communication, and leadership abilities.
- Ability to work in high-pressure environments with 24/7 operational responsibilities.
- Aviation experience is preferred.
- Dell EMC Proven Professional Certification
- Veeam and/or Commvault Certification
- VMware vSAN Certification
- VMware VCP-DCV (Data Center Virtualization)
- ITIL Foundation or higher
- Cisco CCNP Data Center or equivalent
- Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) certification
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