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 support the design, administration, performance monitoring, and optimization of enterprise Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. This role focuses on storage infrastructure architecture, capacity planning, storage performance analysis, data availability, configuration review, and technical support for business-critical IT environments.

The successful candidate will provide remote technical oversight and engineering guidance, collaborate with infrastructure, virtualization, database, cybersecurity, and application teams, and help maintain reliable, secure, and scalable storage services. The position is fully remote and requires strong expertise in enterprise storage technologies, SAN architecture, data protection, and infrastructure operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise in the design, administration, and optimization of enterprise SAN infrastructure.
• Review storage architecture, technical specifications, capacity requirements, and infrastructure design documentation.
• Monitor SAN performance, storage utilization, throughput, latency, connectivity, and availability indicators.
• Support the management and analysis of Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and other enterprise storage connectivity technologies.
• Review storage configurations, logical unit numbers (LUNs), zoning plans, multipathing arrangements, and storage allocation records.
• Analyze storage performance issues, connectivity alerts, capacity constraints, and recurring infrastructure incidents.
• Provide remote troubleshooting guidance using monitoring dashboards, system logs, diagnostic reports, and performance data.
• Support storage capacity planning, scalability assessments, lifecycle planning, and infrastructure optimization initiatives.
• Review storage replication, backup integration, snapshots, and disaster recovery arrangements.
• Collaborate with server, virtualization, database, network, and application teams to assess storage requirements and resolve technical dependencies.
• Support technical evaluations of storage platforms, firmware compatibility, software upgrades, and infrastructure enhancements.
• Review change requests, implementation plans, rollback procedures, and technical risk assessments for storage-related changes.
• Monitor storage availability, resilience, redundancy, and service-level performance.
• Support incident analysis, root cause investigations, and corrective action planning for storage infrastructure issues.
• Review infrastructure security controls, access management, encryption requirements, and configuration compliance in coordination with cybersecurity teams.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, storage inventories, configuration records, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures.
• Prepare technical reports, capacity forecasts, performance summaries, and recommendations for infrastructure improvements.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in enterprise storage administration, SAN infrastructure engineering, data center infrastructure, or storage operations.
• Strong understanding of SAN architecture, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, multipathing, zoning, LUN management, and storage connectivity.
• Experience with enterprise storage platforms from vendors such as Dell, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Pure Storage, or equivalent providers.
• Knowledge of storage virtualization, RAID configurations, replication technologies, snapshots, and high-availability architectures.
• Familiarity with VMware or other virtualization platforms and their integration with enterprise storage environments.
• Understanding of backup and recovery solutions, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity requirements.
• Experience with storage performance monitoring, capacity management, incident analysis, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of infrastructure security principles, access controls, encryption, and operational technology or IT security practices.
• Familiarity with IT service management processes, change management, incident management, and configuration documentation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret technical diagnostics and recommend practical solutions.
• Excellent technical documentation, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Ability to work independently and support geographically distributed infrastructure teams in a fully remote environment.
• Relevant certifications in enterprise storage, data center infrastructure, virtualization, or IT service management are advantageous.

What We Offer

• 100% remote working arrangement with work-from-home flexibility.
• Full-time professional opportunity in enterprise storage and infrastructure engineering.
• Exposure to large-scale storage environments and business-critical technology platforms.
• Opportunities to contribute to infrastructure resilience, capacity optimization, and technology modernization.
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary infrastructure, network, database, virtualization, and cybersecurity teams.
• Professional development and opportunities to expand specialist storage infrastructure expertise.

How to Apply

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

• Operational and authorization note: This position focuses on remote storage architecture review, performance analysis, capacity planning, technical documentation, monitoring, and virtual troubleshooting support. Physical server and storage hardware installation, cabling, component replacement, equipment maintenance, data center inspections, and on-site recovery activities must be performed by qualified local infrastructure personnel. Production storage reconfiguration, live LUN or zoning changes, firmware upgrades, privileged access administration, data migration, deletion or restoration of production data, encryption key management, disaster recovery activation, and formal security or compliance attestations must be performed or approved by appropriately authorized infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business continuity professionals under established change-control and access-management procedures.