IT Team Lead
September 2021 - PresentOMNIX International LLC — Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Lead the IT support team, allocating workload, defining SLAs and escalation paths, and mentoring engineers across infrastructure, networking and cloud practices.
- Own daily operation and availability of Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft 365 and virtualised VMware and Hyper-V environments across internal and client sites.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation in Azure DevOps, standardising release processes and removing manual deployment steps.
- Administer Azure and AWS resources including virtual machines, storage, networking, identity and access management, backup policies and monitoring and alerting.
- Integrate AI-driven automation into IT service workflows using Power Automate, PowerShell and AI assistants, automating ticket triage, routine service requests, user onboarding and offboarding, and management reporting.
- Act as the final escalation point for complex incidents spanning servers, networks, Sophos and Fortinet firewalls, and end-user computing.
- Plan and deliver infrastructure projects including server and network upgrades, new office IT fit-outs, Microsoft 365 and Azure migrations, and CCTV and access control deployments.
- Manage vendors, procurement, licence renewals and IT asset lifecycle, and author the SOPs and runbooks that improved first-time fix rates across the team.