Company: BrainyBuzz Digital Pvt. Ltd.
Engagement Type: Freelance / Contract
Training Mode: Classroom-Based Instructor-Led Training (ILT)
Location: Delhi NCR
Duration: 5–6 Full Days
Participants: Small batch of 2–3 IT Infrastructure professionals
Expected Timeline: 2026
About the Requirement
BrainyBuzz Digital is looking for an experienced Freelance Proxmox VE Enterprise Trainer / Consultant to deliver an intensive, hands-on classroom training program for IT Infrastructure/Operations professionals.
The objective of the program is to develop practical expertise in deploying, migrating, administering, troubleshooting, and maintaining Proxmox VE in enterprise production environments.
This is not intended to be a basic virtualization course. We are specifically looking for a trainer with solid real-world Proxmox implementation and production experience who can combine technical concepts with extensive hands-on labs.
Key Training Areas
The trainer should be capable of covering:
1. Proxmox VE Architecture & Deployment
- Proxmox VE architecture and components
- Enterprise deployment considerations
- Installation and initial configuration
- Repository and subscription management
- Web GUI and CLI administration
- Node and resource management
2. Virtual Machines & Containers
- KVM virtualization
- Linux Containers (LXC)
- VM and container provisioning
- Templates and cloning
- CPU, memory and resource allocation
- Guest agents
- VM lifecycle management
3. Storage
- Proxmox storage architecture
- Local and shared storage
- LVM / LVM-Thin
- ZFS
- NFS and iSCSI
- Storage pools
- Enterprise storage design considerations
- Storage troubleshooting
4. Networking
- Linux bridges
- VLAN configuration
- Bonding
- Network interface configuration
- Proxmox SDN concepts
- Multi-network architecture
- Network troubleshooting
5. Clustering & High Availability
- Multi-node Proxmox cluster deployment
- Corosync
- Quorum concepts
- Cluster administration
- High Availability (HA)
- HA groups and policies
- Failure scenarios and recovery
- Cluster troubleshooting
6. Backup & Disaster Recovery
- Proxmox Backup Server concepts
- Backup configuration
- Scheduled backups
- Snapshot and restore
- VM/container recovery
- Disaster-recovery planning
- Backup verification and troubleshooting
7. Migration
- VM migration between Proxmox nodes
- Live migration
- Offline migration
- Migration planning
- VMware/other virtualization platform to Proxmox migration concepts and methodologies
- Production migration considerations
8. Security & Enterprise Administration
- Users, groups and roles
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Authentication
- Certificates
- Firewall configuration
- Security hardening
- Logging and auditing
- Enterprise administration best practices
9. Monitoring, Performance & Troubleshooting
- Resource monitoring
- Performance analysis
- CPU, RAM, storage and network troubleshooting
- Cluster troubleshooting
- VM troubleshooting
- Logs and diagnostic commands
- Common production issues and resolution methodology
Hands-On Lab Expectations
The trainer should provide practical exercises throughout the program, preferably covering:
- Proxmox installation
- VM and LXC deployment
- Storage configuration
- VLAN/bridge/bond configuration
- Multi-node clustering
- High Availability
- Live migration
- Backup and restore
- Failure and recovery scenarios
- User/RBAC configuration
- Production troubleshooting scenarios
Trainer Profile
We are looking for someone with:
- Strong hands-on experience with Proxmox VE
- Experience deploying or managing Proxmox in production environments
- Robust knowledge of Linux administration
- Virtualization, networking and storage expertise
- Experience with clustering and High Availability
- Knowledge of backup and disaster-recovery architectures
- Understanding of VMware-to-Proxmox migration is highly desirable
- Previous corporate/enterprise technical training experience preferred
- Ability to independently manage practical lab sessions and troubleshoot participant environments
Preferred Experience: 5+ years in virtualization/Linux infrastructure with substantial hands-on Proxmox experience.
Trainer Responsibilities
The selected trainer will be expected to:
- Deliver 5–6 days of instructor-led classroom training
- Provide/finalize a detailed technical training syllabus
- Provide post-training recommendations/best practices where appropriate
Commercial Engagement
This will be a freelance professional engagement.
Interested trainers should share:
- Updated CV / Trainer Profile
- Total IT experience
- Proxmox VE experience
- Details of production Proxmox projects handled
- Corporate training experience
- Proposed 5–6 day course syllabus
- Proposed hands-on lab architecture
- Availability during 2026
- Professional fee per training day / total fee for 5–6 days
- Current location and willingness to deliver classroom training in Delhi NCR
Travel and accommodation requirements, if applicable, should be mentioned separately while submitting the commercial proposal.
Important
We are particularly interested in practitioners who have actually designed, deployed, migrated or supported Proxmox VE environments in production, rather than trainers with only theoretical familiarity with the platform.