99BrightMinds is seeking a highly experienced Senior Infrastructure Lead (VMware) to lead and support enterprise virtualization and data center operations for a major airline organization in the GCC. This role requires deep hands-on expertise in VMware technologies, infrastructure architecture, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure security within mission-critical environments.

• • Administer, maintain, and optimize VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter environments.
  • Manage and support VMware HA, DRS, and vMotion to ensure high availability, workload balancing, and seamless migrations across the virtual infrastructure.
  • Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot VMware vSAN storage solutions to support enterprise workloads and business-critical systems.
  • Administer and maintain VMware NSX environments, including network virtualization, micro-segmentation, and security policies.
  • Monitor virtualization platform performance, capacity, and health, ensuring maximum uptime and operational efficiency.
  • Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades, patches, migrations, and lifecycle management activities.
  • Design and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity solutions for VMware workloads.
  • Manage integration between VMware platforms, enterprise storage systems, and SAN infrastructure.
  • Troubleshoot complex virtualization, compute, storage, and networking issues within the data center environment.
  • Implement infrastructure hardening and security best practices across virtualization platforms.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and architecture diagrams.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, network, security, and application teams to support mission-critical services.
  • Lead root cause analysis and resolution of major infrastructure incidents.