Nutanix Consultant
Summary
Designs, deploys, and maintains enterprise Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure, migrating VMs between ESXi and AHV while ensuring high availability and disaster recovery.
Job Description:
We are seeking a Nutanix Engineer to design, deploy, and support enterprise Nutanix infrastructure across production environments. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience with Nutanix clusters, hypervisor technologies, disaster recovery, and virtualization, with the ability to deliver reliable, scalable, and highly available infrastructure solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deploy, configure, administer, and optimize Nutanix clusters to support enterprise infrastructure requirements.
- Plan and execute infrastructure expansion, disaster recovery (DR) implementation, and high-availability solutions.
- Perform virtual machine (VM) migrations between VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV while ensuring minimal downtime and operational continuity.
- Monitor infrastructure health, troubleshoot platform issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement performance improvements.
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams, project stakeholders, and business users to deliver infrastructure projects and ensure adherence to best practices.
General Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Engineering, Virtualization, or Data Center Operations.
- Proven experience supporting enterprise virtualization platforms and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) within production environments.
- Experience working with cross-functional infrastructure teams, project stakeholders, and enterprise technology environments.
Mandatory Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience deploying, managing, and administering Nutanix infrastructure, including cluster deployment, expansion, lifecycle management, and performance optimization.
- Solid experience with virtualization technologies, particularly VMware ESXi and Nutanix AHV, including virtual machine migration and hypervisor administration.
- Experience implementing disaster recovery (DR), business continuity, backup strategies, and high-availability solutions for enterprise infrastructure.
- Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP), Nutanix Certified Expert (NCX), or other Nutanix Infrastructure certifications.
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Experience with automation, scripting (PowerShell, Python, or Ansible), Infrastructure-as-Code, and infrastructure monitoring tools.
- Familiarity with enterprise storage, networking, backup solutions, cloud integration, and hybrid infrastructure environments.