Virtualization SME (Subject Matter Expert)

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 8–15 Years

Employment Type: Full time

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Virtualization SME to design, implement, optimize, and support enterprise virtualization platforms across on-premises, private, and hybrid cloud environments. The candidate will act as a technical lead for virtualization infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and scalability of mission-critical systems.

Key Responsibilities
Architect, deploy, and manage enterprise virtualization environments.
Lead design and implementation of VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and other virtualization technologies.
Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and infrastructure optimization.
Manage ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, datastores, distributed switches, and virtual networking.
Drive virtualization modernization initiatives, including hybrid cloud and container integration.
Design and support High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion, SRM, and backup solutions.
Troubleshoot complex virtualization, storage, networking, and performance issues.




Collaborate with security, cloud, network, and platform engineering teams.
Define infrastructure standards, governance, and best practices.
Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership.

Required Skills

Virtualization
VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter)
VMware vSAN
VMware NSX (preferred)
Microsoft Hyper-V
Nutanix AHV

Cloud & Containers
Azure / AWS virtualization workloads
Kubernetes/OpenShift fundamentals
Containerized infrastructure concepts

Storage & Backup
SAN/NAS technologies
NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage
Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik

Networking
TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, DHCP
Load Balancers
SDN concepts

Automation
PowerShell
Python
Ansible
Infrastructure as Code concepts

Qualifications
BE/B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science, IT, Electronics, or related disciplines.
VMware Certified Qualified (VCP) preferred.
VMware Advanced Skilled (VCAP) certification will be an added advantage.
Experience managing large-scale enterprise virtualization environments.

📌 Virtualization Sme Bengaluru
🏢 L&T Technology Services
📍 Bengaluru