Virtualization Engineer

About the role

As a Virtualization Engineer, you will make an impact by designing, architecting, implementing, and operating production virtualization and hybrid-cloud environments across Nutanix, Microsoft Hyper-V, and AWS. You will be a valued member of the Infrastructure Architecture team and work collaboratively with infrastructure, network, security, vendor teams, and internal and external customers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise virtualization platforms with a primary focus on Nutanix AOS and Prism and Microsoft Hyper-V Failover Clustering.
• Manage clusters through Prism Element and Prism Central, including health monitoring, upgrades, capacity planning, trend analysis, and lifecycle management.
• Plan and implement platform upgrades, firmware and driver updates, cluster expansions, and maintenance activities while minimizing service disruption.
• Troubleshoot complex compute, storage, and virtualization networking issues, including virtual switches, VLANs, NIC teaming, and MTU configurations.
• Use AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager and AWS Transform to monitor and manage hybrid systems.
• Assess virtualized workloads, plan migration waves, test migrations, and support workload rehosting to Amazon EC2.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity through replication, snapshots, recovery procedures, and periodic testing.
• Maintain monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and thresholds to ensure reliable platform operations.
• Automate routine administration, reporting, and configuration checks using PowerShell.
• Perform root cause analysis and maintain operational documentation and runbooks.
• Advise customers on technical requirements and recommended practices.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Systems Administrator or Systems Engineer.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise virtualization platforms, including Nutanix and Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Working knowledge of compute, storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery concepts.