We are looking for a Junior System Engineer to provide hands-on support for servers, virtualization, storage, backup/DR, and SQL Server database environments. The engineer will support day-to-day operations, ongoing projects, and post-go-live stabilization activities.
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Work Conditions: Full-time
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (On-site)
Responsibilities:
- Operate and support servers, virtualization platforms, storage systems, backup, DR, and database platforms
- Execute infrastructure and database project activities including builds, upgrades, migrations, and refreshes
- Perform database monitoring, backup, restore, and recovery
- Support testing, validation, and post-go-live stabilization
- Monitor system health, capacity, and performance
- Handle infrastructure and database incidents and escalations
- Maintain infrastructure, database, and DR documentation
- Support application teams with infrastructure dependencies
Example Deliverables:
- Server and platform build and migration documentation
- Database backup, restore, and recovery reports
- Infrastructure and database health and capacity reports
- Database related tasks
- Project handover and stabilization documentation
- Weekly and monthly activity reports
Qualifications:
- 4–5 years of experience in infrastructure and platform operations
- Experience with Windows Server and/or Linux
- Experience with VMware ESXi and/or Nutanix AHV
- Experience with backup and DR solutions (On-prem / BaaS)
- Basic to intermediate database experience (SQL Server)
- Infrastructure certifications are preferred
- Good English; Arabic speaker preferred
