Senior SAN Infrastructure Specialist

Job Title: Senior SAN Infrastructure Specialist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Arrangement: 100% Remote — Work From Home

Level: Senior

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior SAN Infrastructure Specialist to provide technical leadership, remote engineering support, and operational oversight for enterprise Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. The role focuses on storage architecture, capacity planning, performance optimization, infrastructure resilience, data availability, and technical troubleshooting across enterprise storage platforms.

The successful candidate will collaborate remotely with infrastructure engineers, systems administrators, network teams, cybersecurity specialists, application owners, and external technology vendors to maintain reliable and secure storage services. The position requires strong expertise in enterprise storage technologies, data protection, virtualization, and business continuity.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, review, and maintain enterprise SAN architecture documentation and technical standards.
• Provide remote technical oversight for Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and other enterprise storage connectivity environments.
• Monitor storage capacity, utilization, throughput, latency, and performance trends.
• Analyze SAN performance data to identify bottlenecks, configuration issues, and opportunities for optimization.
• Support the technical administration and lifecycle planning of enterprise storage platforms.
• Review storage zoning, logical unit number (LUN) allocation, masking, mapping, and host connectivity documentation.
• Evaluate storage architecture requirements for virtualization platforms, databases, enterprise applications, and business-critical systems.
• Support storage provisioning plans and coordinate approved allocation requests with infrastructure operations teams.
• Review multipathing configurations, path redundancy, and storage connectivity resilience.
• Monitor storage replication, snapshot, backup integration, and disaster recovery arrangements.
• Assess storage availability, fault tolerance, and recovery capabilities against agreed service requirements.
• Support technical investigations into storage incidents, connectivity interruptions, performance degradation, and capacity constraints.
• Review storage firmware, software updates, compatibility matrices, and technology lifecycle recommendations.
• Coordinate remotely with server, network, virtualization, database, and application teams to resolve infrastructure dependencies.
• Evaluate vendor proposals, technical specifications, hardware configurations, and storage platform upgrade recommendations.
• Review infrastructure change requests, implementation plans, rollback procedures, and post-change validation reports.
• Support data migration planning, storage consolidation, platform modernization, and infrastructure optimization initiatives.
• Monitor storage-related security controls, access management, encryption requirements, and configuration compliance.
• Maintain accurate architecture diagrams, configuration records, operational procedures, and technical documentation.
• Prepare management reports covering storage capacity, performance, availability, incidents, and infrastructure risks.
• Recommend improvements to storage resilience, operational efficiency, scalability, and service continuity.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Typically 5–8 years of experience in SAN administration, enterprise storage infrastructure, data center engineering, or systems infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of enterprise SAN architecture and storage technologies.
• Practical knowledge of Fibre Channel, iSCSI, zoning, LUN masking, multipathing, and storage connectivity.
• Experience with enterprise storage platforms from vendors such as Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE, IBM, Hitachi Vantara, or Pure Storage.
• Familiarity with VMware, Hyper-V, Linux, Windows Server, and enterprise database storage requirements.
• Understanding of storage replication, snapshots, backup integration, and disaster recovery concepts.
• Knowledge of storage performance monitoring, capacity forecasting, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with storage networking, Fibre Channel switches, network segmentation, and redundancy principles.
• Understanding of encryption, access controls, privileged access management, and infrastructure security requirements.
• Experience reviewing technical designs, configuration documentation, change requests, and infrastructure implementation plans.
• Knowledge of IT service management practices, incident management, problem management, and change control.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and technical documentation skills.
• Excellent communication and coordination abilities in multidisciplinary remote infrastructure teams.
• Relevant certifications such as Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE Storage, IBM Storage, VMware, or equivalent infrastructure qualifications are advantageous.

What We Offer

• A fully remote, work-from-home position based in the UAE.
• Opportunities to contribute to enterprise infrastructure modernization and storage optimization.
• Collaboration with experienced infrastructure, cybersecurity, and technology professionals.
• Exposure to enterprise storage platforms and complex IT environments.
• Professional development and opportunities for career advancement.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit an updated CV highlighting their SAN infrastructure experience, enterprise storage platform expertise, virtualization knowledge, and relevant technical certifications.

Application Subject: Application – Senior SAN Infrastructure Specialist (UAE Remote)

Candidates should confirm applicable employment arrangements, residency requirements, and work authorization before accepting an offer.

• Remote-work scope and authorization: This is a fully remote technical engineering and infrastructure oversight position involving architecture reviews, performance analysis, capacity planning, documentation, and coordination of approved infrastructure changes. Physical server and storage hardware installation, cabling, equipment replacement, data center inspections, and hands-on maintenance must be performed by qualified local personnel. Production storage reconfiguration, privileged access administration, live data migrations, security control changes, disaster recovery activation, and material infrastructure risk acceptance must be performed or authorized by appropriately qualified and designated infrastructure or cybersecurity personnel under approved change management procedures.