Req Id: 4644

Posting Start Date: 11/3/26

Senior Migration Engineer — VCF9 Migration (India – Remote)

Job Profile Summary The Senior Migration Engineer leads complex migrations (vSphere / vSAN / NSX / VCF lifecycle) within a VCF9 Migration Factory Delivery Pod and mentors the Migration Engineer (Mid) tier. Owns build validation and drives Infrastructure-as-Code deployment practices for repeatability, and serves as the senior engineering escalation point for complex migration waves.

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 cooperative 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 environment to effectively work together towards a common goal,



fostering trust within Rackspace and with external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities
- Leads complex, high-risk migrations spanning vSphere, vSAN, NSX network cutover, and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) lifecycle operations (upgrade, patching, workload domain management).
- Owns build validation for migrated workloads, confirming configurations conform to the Migration Architect's approved design and rollback plan before a wave is declared complete.
- Mentors Migration Engineer (Mid) staff on HCX/Zerto execution techniques, troubleshooting, and VMware best practices.
- Drives adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, PowerCLI, Ansible) deployment practices in partnership with the Automation Engineer to increase build repeatability and reduce manual configuration drift.
- Serves as the senior escalation point for complex migration issues, performing advanced root cause analysis and performance tuning across compute, storage, and network layers.
- Partners with the Migration Architect on SDDC VCF mapping validation and flags design risk before it can impact a wave.
- Coordinates with the Network/NSX Engineer on critical-path network cutover sequencing for complex waves.




- Reviews and approves complex migration plans developed by the Migration Engineer (Mid) prior to execution.
- Generates and maintains advanced configuration and validation documentation for complex client production environments.
- Actively takes ownership of complex issues, understanding upstream/downstream impacts and designing/delivering solutions appropriately.

Knowledge
- Advanced knowledge of VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) lifecycle management
- Advanced knowledge of VMware HCX and Zerto-based migration tooling for complex/large-scale migrations
- Advanced knowledge of OS technologies for customer configuration: Windows, RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.
- Advanced knowledge of more than one IaaS platform(s) – AWS (preferred), Azure, Google, VMware Cloud
- Advanced understanding of infrastructure automation tooling (Terraform, PowerCLI, Ansible, HCX)

Skills
- VMware VCF Lifecycle Management

- Complex Migration Leadership
- Infrastructure-as-Code

- AI/Machine Learning

- Cloud Computing

- Cybersecurity

- DevOps Coding Skills

- Network/Systems Skills

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

Certifications
- VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) required
- VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) specialty certification strongly preferred

Experience
- 6 – 10 years of experience in the field of role required, including demonstrated leadership of complex VMware migrations

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