Senior Virtualization Engineer Nutanix Proxmox

Sutherland is looking for a Senior Virtualization Engineer where you have deep hands-on expertise in Proxmox VE and Nutanix (AOS/AHV) and strong VMware knowledge to lead platform assessment and migration of VMware workloads to Nutanix and/or Proxmox. You will own day-to-day platform engineering tasks across assessment migration planning & execution and Day-2 operational stabilization working closely with a cross-functional team of infrastructure network security and application owners.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical assessment of current VMware estate (inventory dependencies criticality constraints) and define target architecture for Proxmox and/or Nutanix.
• Define success criteria test plans and validation steps across compute storage network backup/DR monitoring and security.
• Build and configure lab/PoC environments (clusters storage networking management tooling) and document findings and recommendations with risks and trade-offs.
• Design migration waves cutover approaches validation steps and rollback plans; coordinate change approvals and maintenance windows.
• Execute workload migrations from VMware to Nutanix AHV and/or Proxmox (VM conversion network/storage mapping guest OS readiness post-migration verification).
• Troubleshoot migration issues across hypervisor storage network and guest OS layers; drive problem resolution to closure.
• Establish operational runbooks and standards: patch/upgrade process backups DR tests monitoring/alerting capacity/performance management and incident response.
• Ensure high availability and resiliency configuration (cluster HA live migration storage redundancy); perform failover and recovery drills.
• Produce documentation and deliver knowledge transfer to internal teams (admin guides SOPs architecture diagrams).
• Automate provisioning and configuration where feasible (Ansible/IaC; scripting) and standardize templates for VM builds.
• Integrate with enterprise services (directory services DNS/DHCP NTP PKI) and align security hardening requirements.
• Work with application owners to plan migrations validate functionality and performance and minimize downtime.
• Communicate progress risks and decisions clearly to stakeholders; contribute to project status and technical documentation.
• Work as part of a global team and capability to travel globally (up to 5% of the time) to support engineering activities.

Experience & Skills

• Proven hands-on administration of Proxmox VE in production: clustering HA KVM/QEMU LXC storage (Ceph and/or ZFS) networking (bridges VLANs bonding) upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Proven hands-on administration of Nutanix: AOS AHV Prism (Element/Central) cluster deployment/expansion storage/container concepts networking and security constructs LCM upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Strong VMware vSphere background (ESXi/vCenter) and experience migrating workloads from VMware to alternative hypervisors.
• Strong Linux administration (Debian/Ubuntu and/or RHEL-based) shell scripting and automation mindset (Ansible; Terraform/PowerShell beneficial).
• Backup/restore and DR concepts; experience integrating platforms with enterprise backup tooling (e.g. Veeam).
• Solid understanding of datacenter networking and storage fundamentals (DNS/DHCP/NTP TCP/IP firewalls iSCSI/NFS multipath).
• Strong documentation troubleshooting and stakeholder communication skills; able to work independently in a contractor capacity.

Good-to-Have

• Nutanix ecosystem components such as NCM/Calm Flow/Flow Security and/or NC2 (Nutanix Clusters in the Cloud).
• Monitoring/observability tooling (Dynatrace or similar).
• Security hardening experience for Linux-based hypervisors (e.g. STIG-aligned practices).
• Experience with enterprise-scale migrations and regulated environments.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors / Masters degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• Excellent verbal analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong ownership and accountability mindset
• Ability to thrive in globally distributed environment
• Pune India Location to collaborate with global stakeholders; ensure effective overlap with EU/India/US time zones as needed.

Additional Information :

Please note the requirements for the candidates:

• Should be open to travel to Pune for the in-person interview round
• Willing to work in a hybrid model from the Pune office

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time