Senior Virtualization Systems Engineer

About the role

The Senior Virtualization Systems Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, administering, optimizing, and supporting enterprise virtualization and hybrid cloud infrastructure environments. This role provides technical leadership for VMware and Nutanix platforms, leads infrastructure upgrade and migration initiatives, and ensures availability, performance, and scalability of virtualized environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy, administer, and optimize VMware vSphere and Nutanix infrastructure platforms, managing technologies such as vCenter, ESXi, vMotion, DRS, HA, and vSAN.
• Lead datacenter migrations, infrastructure upgrades, platform refreshes, and consolidation initiatives, developing project estimates, implementation plans, and technical documentation.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting for complex virtualization, storage, networking, and infrastructure issues, performing root cause analysis and preventive measures.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions using PowerShell, PowerCLI, Python, and related tools to improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with architects, application teams, support teams, and vendors, communicating technical issues, project status, and mentoring junior engineers.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise virtualization and infrastructure engineering.
• VMware VCP and Nutanix NCP certifications are desirable.

Required skills

• VMware vSphere (vCenter, ESXi, vMotion, DRS, HA, vSAN).
• Nutanix HCI (Prism, Cluster Administration, Lifecycle Management).
• Enterprise storage, networking, and compute infrastructure.
• Datacenter migration and infrastructure modernization.
• Capacity planning and performance optimization.
• Infrastructure monitoring and operational support.
• PowerShell, PowerCLI, Python automation.
• Hybrid cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP preferred).