: Principal Platform Engineer – Hyper-V

Experience

12+ years

Role Objective

As a Principal Platform Engineer – Hyper-V, you will lead the engineering, validation, and optimization of Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platforms to operate reliably under extreme enterprise workloads. You will identify virtualization limits, optimize performance, validate resilience, and establish engineering standards that exceed conventional enterprise deployment expectations.

Key Responsibilities

Design, engineer, and optimize large-scale Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platforms.

Perform stress, scalability, and performance testing to identify platform bottlenecks.

Analyze virtualization latency, CPU scheduling, storage, and memory performance.

Optimize NUMA topology, processor affinity, and memory allocation for virtualized workloads.

Evaluate DPU/SmartNIC technologies to improve virtualization and networking performance.

Validate cluster resilience, failover behavior, Live Migration, Storage Migration, and disaster recovery capabilities.

Identify engineering limits and architectural exceptions beyond standard Microsoft reference architectures.

Develop performance tuning standards, capacity planning models, and operational engineering guidelines.

Collaborate with storage, networking, infrastructure, security, and platform engineering teams.

Automate platform provisioning, configuration, and operational processes using PowerShell, DSC,



and Infrastructure as Code.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship for enterprise virtualization engineering initiatives.

Required Skills

12+ years in Infrastructure Engineering, Virtualization Engineering, or Platform Engineering.

Extensive experience with Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server virtualization technologies.

Robust understanding of Hyper-V Failover Clustering, Live Migration, Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), and Windows Server architecture.

Expertise in virtualization performance analysis, benchmarking, and capacity planning.

Deep understanding of NUMA architecture, CPU scheduling, memory optimization, and virtualization internals.

Experience with enterprise networking, storage, and software-defined infrastructure.

Knowledge of DPU/SmartNIC technologies and modern data center architectures.

Strong PowerShell scripting and automation skills.

Experience with monitoring, performance analysis, and enterprise observability tools.

Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical enterprise environments.

Primary Deliverables

Hyper-V scalability and performance benchmarks.

Virtualization tuning standards and engineering recommendations.

Failure-domain and resilience validation reports.

Capacity planning and platform optimization guidelines.

Enterprise virtualization engineering standards and architectural best practices.

📌 Principal Platform Engineer Hyper-V (Hyderabad)
🏢 SHI Solutions India
📍 Hyderabad