Req Id: 4643

Posting Start Date: 11/3/26

Job Description:

Network (NSX) Engineer — VCF9 Migration (India – Remote)

Job Profile Summary

The Network (NSX) Engineer owns NSX migration and network cutover activities within a VCF9 Migration Factory Delivery Pod — typically the critical path for a wave. This is a specialist role kept thin and dedicated rather than pooled with general Migration Engineers, responsible for NSX-T design validation, cutover sequencing, and cutover risk management across the pod's wave cadence.

Career Level Summary

- Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and basic knowledge of related job disciplines

- Solves complex problems

- Works independently, receives minimal guidance

- May lead projects or project steps within a broader project or may have accountability for ongoing activities or objectives

- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience

Critical Competencies

- Excellence: Exceeds expectations by consistently demonstrating accountability, discipline, high performance, and a proven track record of exceptional results.

- Customer-driven: Prioritizes customer needs and satisfaction through collaborative and proactive problem-solving, and an unwavering commitment to customer success.

- Expertise: Possesses deep understanding of customer needs and continually grows and enhances skills to provide customer-focused solutions.

- Agility: Quickly adapts and responds to dynamic customer needs and expectations through innovative solutions.

- Compassion: Cultivates a positive and supportive setting to effectively work together towards a common goal,



fostering trust within Rackspace and with external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

- Owns NSX-T design validation and migration execution, including logical switching, distributed routing, and Tier-0/Tier-1 gateway cutover, for VCF9 migration waves.

- Leads network cutover activities during migration waves — typically the critical path — sequencing cutover windows in coordination with the Senior Migration Engineer and Migration Architect.

- Monitors tickets, responses, and resolutions for network events tied to migration waves; gathers and analyzes bandwidth and NSX flow data.

- Documents scheduled maintenances, network topologies, NSX segment/gateway configurations, and connectivity mappings in the designated tool.

- Opens service requests to vendors for hardware/software problems; works with Service Providers for proper handling of outages, maintenances, or other problems during cutover windows.

- Communicates cutover status and network risk to customers and the Migration Coordinator/PMO via tickets, emails, and calls.

- Ensures NSX and network alerts are detected, acknowledged, and resolved in a timely manner during and after cutover.





- Documents planned and unplanned network events and changes; follows change and escalation processes for unique, complex, or critical network cutover changes and customer outages.

- Validates rollback readiness for network cutover activities in partnership with the QA/Validation Engineer.

- Participates in on-call support per team design, particularly around scheduled wave cutover windows.

Knowledge

- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of VMware NSX-T design, deployment, and migration from NSX-V or legacy network virtualization platforms

- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of the design, configuration, installation, maintenance, administration, and upgrade of NSX-based networking environments

- Intermediate knowledge of TCP/IP, OSI topology, and switching technologies as applied to NSX overlay/underlay networking

- Intermediate knowledge of equipment from multiple vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, and Arista as they interface with NSX underlay networks

Skills

- VMware NSX-T Migration & Cutover

- Network Virtualization Design

- Client/Customer Service

- Network Device Naming Schemes

- Network Service Monitoring Systems

- Process Improvement

- Script Maintenance

- Technical Acumen

- Technical Support

- Technical Writing Skills

Education

- Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in a field related to role.

Certifications

- VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) required, or obtained within 90 days of hire

- CCNA or CCNP certification preferred

Experience

- 3 – 6 years of experience in the field of role required, including hands-on NSX-T design or migration experience

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