Virtualization Engineer

Role: Virtualization Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: 12+ Months

Environment

Large enterprise infrastructure spanning VMware and Nutanix platforms, Windows and Linux operating systems, storage, backup, cloud, security and application services

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assess the virtualization estate, including clusters, hypervisors, management appliances, virtual networking, datastores, templates, lifecycle status and platform dependencies.
• Review vulnerability findings and vendor security advisories affecting VMware and Nutanix components; determine affected assets, business impact, remediation path, prerequisites and rollback strategy.
• Plan and execute approved upgrades, patches, firmware coordination and secure-configuration changes while maintaining platform availability and workload integrity.
• Administer and troubleshoot VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN and related services, plus Nutanix AHV, Prism Central, Prism Element and Life Cycle Manager where applicable.
• Support virtual machine provisioning, migration, cloning, snapshots, templates, resource pools, high availability, DRS, live migration and capacity optimization.
• Coordinate remediation that crosses Windows, Linux, storage, backup, network and cloud teams, including guest-tools, drivers, host compatibility and application testing.
• Validate remediation through vulnerability rescans, health checks, cluster testing, monitoring and evidence collection; update ServiceNow or client tracking records.
• Develop and maintain platform standards, architecture diagrams, operating procedures, remediation runbooks, implementation plans and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Automate repeatable administration and remediation using PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, REST APIs or equivalent tools.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster-recovery exercises, maintenance windows and after-hours or on-call support when required.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of enterprise virtualization engineering or administration experience in a complex production environment.
• Hands-on expertise with VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter, including cluster administration, HA, DRS, vMotion, virtual networking, datastores and lifecycle management.
• Hands-on experience with Nutanix AHV and Prism, or demonstrated ability to support both VMware and Nutanix environments.
• Experience performing hypervisor and management-plane patching, security hardening, certificate maintenance, upgrades and vulnerability remediation.
• Strong understanding of virtual infrastructure dependencies across storage, SAN/NAS, backup, DNS, NTP, Active Directory, Linux, Windows and network services.
• Experience with change control, implementation planning, production validation, rollback planning and technical documentation.
• Working knowledge of disaster recovery, replication, backup integration, RPO/RTO and business-continuity requirements.
• Clear troubleshooting, stakeholder communication and independent problem-solving skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX, Aria Operations, HCX or VMware Cloud on AWS experience.
• Nutanix Life Cycle Manager, Flow, Files, Move, Leap or disaster-recovery experience.
• Automation using VMware PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform or platform REST APIs.
• Experience with Dell VxRail or other hyperconverged infrastructure platforms.
• VMware VCP/VCAP, Nutanix NCP/NCM, Dell Technologies or comparable certification.
• Experience in utilities, critical infrastructure or other regulated environments.