Job Description

Role Overview As the Cloud & Virtualization Architect, you will own the design and architecture of the enterprise virtualization platform (primarily Hyper-V) and its hybrid-cloud integration across a large-scale workplace. This is a senior architecture and engineering role — not an operations or day-to-day administration role. You will define how virtualization clusters are designed, sized, automated, and self-healed, setting the standards and reference architectures that operations teams execute against. You will be the technical authority for cluster performance, capacity/right-sizing, and infrastructure automation, solving the hardest platform-level problems and driving the strategy rather than handling ticket queues. Key Responsibilities • Serve as the design authority for the enterprise virtualization platform, primarily Hyper-V (Failover Clustering, storage, and networking design) • Architect virtualization clusters for performance, availability, and scale — including host standards, HA/failover design, and cluster topology • Own capacity planning and right-sizing across the fleet: node sizing, RAM/CPU/storage ratios, HA reservation models,



and consolidation ratios grounded in real utilization data • Design and drive infrastructure automation and orchestration using Ansible and Terraform — provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle as code • Architect self-healing infrastructure: automated detection and remediation of host, cluster, and VM health issues to reduce manual intervention • Define reference architectures, design standards, and build/validate/release pipelines for virtualization hosts and templates • Architect hybrid-cloud and cloud integration (Azure preferred), including landing zone design, connectivity, and workload placement between on-prem and cloud • Establish performance baselines and observability standards for cluster health, capacity, and utilization; use data to guide design decisions • Partner with compute, storage, network, and security teams to align virtualization design with hardening, compliance, and DR/BC requirements • Provide senior-level architecture guidance and root-cause analysis for platform-wide virtualization and performance issues; mentor engineers and set technical direction

📌 Cloud & Virtualization Architect 14years (Bengaluru)
🏢 Sandisk
📍 Bengaluru