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About the Role

SAMI Advanced Electronics (SAMI-AEC) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr. IT Systems Specialist to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role is crucial for ensuring the continuous availability, integrity, and reliable operation of our critical IT systems. The successful candidate will be responsible for the full lifecycle management of our virtual infrastructure, Microsoft Domain, email services, storage, and backup solutions, adhering strictly to SAMI-AEC's IT policies and procedures. This position offers a full-time opportunity to contribute to the robust IT infrastructure of a leading organization within the Saudi Arabian market. You will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining systems that are vital to the company's operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the availability, integrity, and reliable operation of IT systems, including virtual infrastructure, Microsoft Domain, email services, storage, and backup solutions through comprehensive full lifecycle management.
• Design, install, test, deploy, maintain, patch, monitor performance, and manage incidents for all IT systems.
• Maintain Data Centers and IT rooms, ensuring the availability, integrity, operability, and normal functionality of critical infrastructure such as power, cooling, UPS, and alarm systems.
• Manage data center maintenance contracts to ensure optimal performance and uptime.
• Maintain SAMI-AEC’s registered domains (*, *****, ******, *******, *******, ensuring their reservation under the company's name and their normal functionality in terms of accessibility, availability, and integrity.
• Prepare, review, and enforce IT systems-related policies and procedures to ensure their effectiveness and comprehensive coverage of all system services.
• Provide users with clear guidelines for the acceptable usage of system services.
• Maintain Microsoft Products, Contracts, Agreements, and Support Services to fulfill business requirements, ensuring the provision of required application licenses while adhering to legal and licensing requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

• Proven experience in maintaining Data Centers and IT rooms, ensuring availability, integrity, operability, and normal functionality of critical infrastructure including Power, Cooling, UPS, and alarm systems.
• Experience in managing data center maintenance contracts.
• Proficiency in maintaining registered domains (*, *****, ******, *******, ******* to ensure their reservation under the company's name and their normal functionality in terms of accessibility, availability, and integrity.
• Experience in preparing, reviewing, and enforcing IT systems-related policies and procedures, including providing users with clear guidelines for acceptable usage of system services.
• Experience in maintaining Microsoft Products, Contracts, Agreements, and Support Services to fulfill business requirements, including the provision of required application licenses while adhering to legal and licensing requirements.
• A minimum of 5-10 years of relevant experience is required.

Technical Skills

• Virtual Infrastructure management
• Microsoft Domain administration
• Email Services management
• Storage solutions
• Backup and recovery systems
• Data Center maintenance
• Domain management
• IT Policies and Procedures development and enforcement
• Microsoft Products and licensing

Work Location and Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.