Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Industry: Mining & Natural Resources | Experience: 7+ Years Environment: Multi-site enterprise infrastructure supporting over 3,500 employees across remote and regional mining operations.

Professional Summary

Senior Infrastructure Engineer with over 7 years of experience in multinational environments, specializing in enterprise infrastructure design, migration, and management. Skilled in delivering high-availability systems for large-scale, multi-site operations with deep expertise across storage, compute, virtualization, and backup platforms. Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across diverse infrastructure layers, ensuring performance, security, and business continuity in demanding mining environments.

Key Knowledge & Skills

• Infrastructure Engineering: Hands-on experience designing, upgrading, and consolidating enterprise systems across Dell, NetApp, and Cisco UCS environments.

• Storage/Compute: Dell PowerStore, Compellent, HPE Nimble, NetApp ONTAP, NetApp SANtricity.

• Migration & Design: Storage migration, compute cluster migration, SAN zoning, storage replication, datacenter consolidation.

• Virtualisation: VMware vSphere 7/8, vCenter, ESXi, HA/DRS, vSAN, SRM (Site Recovery Manager), ARIA, VLAN.

• Backup & DR: Veeam Backup & Replication, SOBR, immutability, WAN accelerators, DR orchestration, Veeam ONE, Enterprise Manager.

• Monitoring & Tools: SolarWinds, Zabbix, PRTG, VMware ARIA.

• Expertise: Advanced troubleshooting across compute, storage, virtualization, and backup domains to minimize downtime and optimize performance.

Competencies

• Led successful large-scale storage and compute migrations with zero business disruption.

• Designed and maintained Veeam backup clusters, including replication, repositories, proxies, and DR testing, ensuring compliance and immutability requirements.

• Implemented vCenter upgrades, cluster redesigns, and vMotion/storage vMotion migrations across Cisco, Dell, and HPE platforms.

• Delivered datacenter consolidation projects that improved resilience and reduced operational complexity.

• Recognized for strong problem-solving, cross-cultural collaboration, and ability to deliver projects in challenging remote environments.