Infrastructure Testing Lead

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: December 31 2026
Work Set-Up: Hybrid (23 days per week in office)
Clearance Required: BPSS

Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for an Infrastructure Testing Lead to support infrastructure and technical testing activities across Nutanix environments virtual machine lifecycles networking disaster recovery security operations tooling and migration. The successful candidate will bring strong technical knowledge across Nutanix technologies and experience supporting infrastructure resilience security monitoring backup and migration activities.

What you will do:

• Test Nutanix NC2 AOS and AHV environments including Prism Central Prism Element and LCM upgrades.
• Validate virtual machine lifecycle activities including creation starting stopping deletion snapshots cloning and templates.
• Test networking configurations including VPCs VLANs subnets eastwest connectivity and micro-segmentation.
• Validate Nutanix Flow and NSX DFW concepts within applicable network security configurations.
• Test disaster recovery and resilience capabilities using Nutanix Leap and replication.
• Execute planned and unplanned failover failback subset failover and associated recovery scenarios.
• Validate RPO and RTO requirements across disaster recovery and resilience testing.
• Test security configurations including RBAC AD/Entra ID integration encryption at rest and network security policies.
• Validate integrations and security operations involving CyberArk SIEM platforms Sentinel and Defender.
• Test monitoring and alerting capabilities across Prism and X-Play.
• Validate Cohesity backup functionality and alert forwarding into operational tools such as OpsRamp.
• Support Nutanix Move migration activities from ESX environments.
• Test and validate restore processes from backup.
• Identify investigate and support resolution of infrastructure and technical testing issues.
• Coordinate technical testing activities and provide clear status updates on progress issues and dependencies.

Qualifications :

• Demonstrate strong knowledge of Nutanix NC2 AOS and AHV including Prism Central Prism Element and LCM upgrades.
• Bring solid understanding of virtual machine lifecycle management including creation snapshots cloning templates and associated VM operations.
• Possess strong networking knowledge covering VPCs VLANs subnets eastwest connectivity and micro-segmentation.
• Demonstrate experience with disaster recovery and resilience concepts including replication failover failback RPO RTO and subset failover.
• Understand security technologies and practices including RBAC AD/Entra ID integration encryption at rest network security policies CyberArk and SIEM platforms.
• Have experience with monitoring and alerting using Prism and X-Play as well as backup technologies such as Cohesity.
• Demonstrate familiarity with alert forwarding into operational tools such as OpsRamp.
• Bring experience supporting Nutanix Move migrations from ESX and restoring environments from backup.
• Be eligible for BPSS clearance.
• Be able to work PAYE through an umbrella company.

Additional Information :

Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based without requiring employer sponsorship.

HelloKindred is committed to fair transparent and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills experience and role-related requirements.

We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

HelloKindred is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race colour religion sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation age national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract