Virtualization & Disaster Recovery Architect

Summary  We are looking for a seasoned Virtualization & Disaster Recovery Architect with 1213 years of experience in architecting implementing migrating and managing complex enterprise-scale virtualization and disaster recovery solutions. The role demands deep hands-on expertise across multiple virtualization platforms hyper converged infrastructures and DR/BC technologies ensuring high availability resilience and business continuity for mission critical workloads.

Location: Bangalore or Hyderabad 

Key Responsibilities

• Architect deploy and manage enterprise virtualization and hyper converged infrastructure platforms across VMware Microsoft Hyper V Nutanix Citrix Red Hat Oracle and HCI solutions while leading data center consolidation hardware refresh migrations capacity planning performance optimization and the definition of virtualization standards and best practices.

• Design implement and operate comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity solutions across on premises hybrid and multi-site environments using tools such as Zerto Veeam VMware SRM and PlateSpin with responsibility for defining and optimizing RPO and RTO objectives.

• Manage and integrate storage-level replication technologies including Hitachi Dell EMC HPE and IBM solutions while planning executing and documenting DR drills failover and failback testing recovery validations and maintaining detailed runbooks and architecture documentation.

• Architect hybrid and cloud-based disaster recovery solutions leveraging VMware Cloud DR Azure Site Recovery and AWS VCDR enabling seamless integration between on-premises infrastructure and public cloud platforms and supporting workload mobility across environments.

• Serve as a technical authority and subject matter expert for virtualization and disaster recovery leading architecture reviews technology evaluations and proofs of concept collaborating with cross-functional teams mentoring engineers and supporting audits compliance efforts and infrastructure resilience risk assessments.

Required Skills & Experience

• Technical Expertise 1213 years of experience in IT infrastructure with strong emphasis on virtualization and DR.

• Expert-level knowledge of: VMware Hyper-V Nutanix and KVM-based platforms

• Enterprise DR and backup solutions

• Strong understanding of: SAN/NAS storage architectures

• Data center networking (VLANs routing load balancing)

• Windows and Linux operating systems

• Experience designing multi-site metro and geo-redundant DR architectures.

Preferred

• Automation and scripting (PowerShell Python Ansible).

• Container and virtualization integration (Docker Kubernetes OpenShift).

• Exposure to software-defined networking (NSX Azure Virtual Network).

• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance standards (ISO 27001 SOC PCI DSS).

Certifications (Preferred)

• VMware (VCP / VCAP / VCIX)

• Nutanix (NCP / NCM)

• Microsoft (Hyper-V / Azure)

• Zerto / Veeam / Commvault / Rubrik

• Cloud certifications (AWS Azure)

Qualifications :

Educational qualification:

• BE BTech BCA BSc (IT) MCA MBA (IT) and MSc(IT)

   

   

   

Experience:

• 12 - 13 Years of experience

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time