SRE engineer

ob Title: Azure Local & VMware Engineer (Cluster Deployment & Migration)
Senior Consultant

Experience Required:
8 10 years total IT infrastructure experience
Minimum 4 years hands-on with Azure Stack HCI / Azure Local
Minimum 6 years VMware (vSphere ESXi vCenter) experience
Experience in enterprise cluster deployments and workload migrations is mandatory

Role Summary
We are looking for an experienced Azure Local & VMware Engineer to support cluster design
deployment workload migration and knowledge transfer activities as part of an enterprise
infrastructure transformation engagement.
The role involves end-to-end execution from design workshops through deployment migration
testing hypercare and handover documentation.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead design workshops and requirement discovery sessions
Own Azure Local cluster architecture and high-level solution design
Review and approve deployment configurations
Define migration strategy and approach
Oversee testing validation and sign-off documentation
Drive risk mitigation and escalation management
Lead customer communication and stakeholder alignment
Conduct final knowledge transfer and solution walkthrough
Solution Testing & Validation
Perform functional and performance validation
Document testing outputs and validation reports
Ensure compliance with agreed design standards
Workload Migration
Conduct workload discovery and assessment
Develop migration solution design
Build and configure migration framework

Execute workload migrations from VMware to Azure Local
Perform migration testing and validation
Provide post-migration hypercare support
Knowledge Transfer & Documentation
Deliver knowledge transfer sessions to customer IT teams
Prepare and submit:
As-built solution document
Configuration documentation
Basic management & monitoring guide

Required Technical Skills
Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI
Azure Stack HCI / Azure Local deployment & configuration
Windows Server Failover Clustering
Software-defined networking (SDN)
Azure Arc integration
Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
Hybrid cloud integration
Cluster lifecycle management
VMware
VMware vSphere / ESXi
vCenter management
VM provisioning & migration
vMotion / Storage vMotion
HA & DRS
Basic troubleshooting of VMware infrastructure