Senior Virtualization Systems Engineer
FTE
Hyderabad/Pune (Hybrid/ Remote)

- We are seeking a Senior Virtualization Systems Engineer with 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure experience to lead VMware and Nutanix virtualization environments. The role includes platform administration, upgrades, workload validation, infrastructure modernization, virtualization strategy, automation, disaster recovery, and cross-functional technical leadership.
- Job Description
- We are seeking a senior virtualization engineer with 10+ years of infrastructure experience to support and lead enterprise VMware and Nutanix environments. This role will drive platform upgrades, validate application compatibility, coordinate with application and infrastructure teams, and assist with evaluating future virtualization platforms if the organization considers alternatives to VMware or Nutanix.

The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, Nutanix AHV, Prism, AOS, clustering, storage, networking, backup, disaster recovery, and enterprise change management.

This person must be able to work independently, ask the right questions, document clearly, identify risks, and move initiatives forward with minimal guidance.

Job description
Job Title
Senior Virtualization Systems Engineer VMware / Nutanix
Role Summary
We are looking for a senior virtualization systems engineer with 10+ years of infrastructure experience to lead and support enterprise virtualization platforms, including VMware vSphere and Nutanix AHV.
This role requires someone who can operate independently, drive platform upgrades end-to-end, validate application compatibility, partner with application and infrastructure teams, and help evaluate future virtualization platform options if the organization decides to move away from VMware, Nutanix, or current-state architecture.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who asks the right questions, identifies risks early, communicates clearly, and can move initiatives forward with minimal guidance.

Key Responsibilities
Virtualization Platform Operations
Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise virtualization environments, including VMware vSphere / ESXi / vCenter and Nutanix AHV / Prism.
Support compute, storage, networking, clustering, high availability, and disaster recovery capabilities across virtualized environments.




Monitor platform health, performance, capacity, and availability.
Troubleshoot complex virtualization, server, storage, and network-related issues.
Upgrade Planning and Execution
Lead virtualization platform upgrade initiatives from planning through execution.
Develop upgrade plans, implementation runbooks, rollback plans, and validation checklists.
Coordinate with application, database, security, network, storage, and business teams to ensure readiness.
Validate that supported applications and workloads are compatible with the upgraded platform.
Identify upgrade risks, dependencies, impacts, and required remediation activities.
Drive post-upgrade testing, issue resolution, and operational handoff.
Application and Workload Validation
Partner with application owners to understand business-critical workloads and technical dependencies.
Confirm application compatibility with recent hypervisor versions, guest OS versions, VMware Tools, Nutanix Guest Tools, drivers, firmware, and backup agents.
Track validation status across application portfolios.
Escalate risks where applications are unsupported, outdated, or not certified on the target platform.
Platform Evaluation and Strategy
Assist in evaluating alternative virtualization platforms if the organization decides to move away from VMware, Nutanix, or current-state solutions.
Participate in technical assessments, proof-of-concepts, migration planning, and platform comparison activities.
Evaluate options based on cost, scalability, operational fit, application compatibility, licensing, supportability, automation, security, and migration complexity.
Provide practical recommendations to leadership and architecture teams.
Technical Leadership and Ownership
Drive assigned initiatives independently with limited direction.
Ask thoughtful technical and business questions to clarify scope, risks, and success criteria.
Create clear documentation, decision summaries, status updates,



and implementation plans.
Communicate effectively with technical teams, application owners, vendors, and leadership.
Mentor junior engineers and help establish operational best practices.

Required Experience
10+ years of IT infrastructure experience, with strong focus on virtualization and data center technologies.
Deep hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, clusters, DRS, HA, vMotion, storage vMotion, templates, snapshots, and lifecycle management.
Strong experience with Nutanix AHV, Prism Central, Prism Element, AOS, clusters, storage containers, and VM operations.
Experience leading or supporting major virtualization upgrades.
Experience validating application and workload readiness during infrastructure upgrades.
Strong understanding of server hardware, firmware, BIOS, drivers, storage, SAN/NAS, networking, and backup integrations.
Experience with enterprise change management, incident management, and problem management processes.
Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across compute, storage, network, OS, and virtualization layers.
Strong documentation and communication skills.

Preferred Experience
Experience with virtualization platform migrations or evaluations.
Exposure to alternative platforms such as Hyper-V, OpenShift Virtualization, Proxmox, KVM, Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, or AWS VMware-related migration paths.
Experience with automation tools such as PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or Nutanix Calm.
Experience with disaster recovery tools such as VMware SRM, Zerto, Veeam, Rubrik, Cohesity, or Nutanix Leap.
Familiarity with hybrid cloud, cloud migration, and data center modernization strategies.
Experience working in regulated, enterprise, or large-scale production environments.

Key Skills
VMware vSphere / ESXi / vCenter
Nutanix AHV / Prism / AOS
Virtual machine lifecycle management
Platform upgrades and migrations
Application compatibility validation
Infrastructure architecture and troubleshooting
Data center compute, storage, and networking
DR, backup, and resiliency planning
Vendor evaluation and technical assessment
Documentation, communication, and stakeholder management
Independent technical leadership

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