About this Virtualization Engineer role at Weekday AI
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Experience: 4+ yrs
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana
Job Type: Full-time
We are looking for an experiencedย Virtualization Engineerย to design, administer,ย maintain, and optimise enterpriseย virtualisationย environments with a strong focus onย Nutanix, VMware, compute infrastructure, monitoring, and automation.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise acrossย Nutanix AOS, Nutanix AHV, VMware ESXi, and Cisco UCS computeย infrastructure, along with strong troubleshooting andย virtualisation administrationย capabilities. The role will alsoย involveย proactive infrastructure monitoring usingย AIOpsย and improving operational efficiency throughย PowerShell scripting and automation.
You will playย a key role in maintaining highly available, reliable, secure, and high-performing virtualisation platforms supporting critical production workloads.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Administerย and maintainย Nutanix AOS and Nutanix AHVย virtualisation environments.
- Manage and supportย VMware ESXiย hosts, clusters, and virtual machine environments.
- Supportย Cisco UCS computeย infrastructure, including configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Perform virtual machine provisioning, deployment, migration, resizing, resource allocation, and lifecycle management.
- Monitor virtualisation platforms for availability, performance, capacity, resource utilisation, and overall health.
- Troubleshoot VM, host, cluster, compute, hardware, and virtualisation-related incidents.
- Perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions for recurring infrastructure issues.
- Configure and maintainย high-availability and resilient virtualisation environments.
- Support infrastructure patching, upgrades, firmware updates, configuration changes, and technology refresh activities.
- Implement and maintainย AIOps-based proactive monitoring, alerting, and health-check mechanisms.
- Identify performance bottlenecks, capacity constraints, and potential infrastructure failures before they affect production.
- Develop and maintainย PowerShell scriptsย to automateย virtualisationย administration and repetitive operationalย tasks.
- Identify opportunities to improveย virtualisation operations through automation, standardisation, and process optimisation.
- Support capacity planning, resource forecasting, and performance optimisation across virtualisation environments.
- Assist with backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and virtual machine recovery activities.
- Support virtualisation migrations, infrastructure consolidation, and platform modernisation initiatives.
- Maintain accurate configuration documentation, operational procedures, asset records,ย and technical standards.
- Collaborate with network, storage, security, database, application, and operations teams to resolve cross-functional infrastructure issues.
- Follow established change, incident, problem-management, security, and operational processes.
What Makes You a Great Fit
- 4+ years of experienceย inย virtualization engineering,ย infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or enterprise data-centre operations.
- Strong hands-on experience withย Nutanix AOS and Nutanix AHV.
- Proven experience administering and troubleshootingย VMware ESXiย environments.
- Practical experience withย Cisco UCS compute hardwareย and enterprise server infrastructure.
- Strong understanding ofย virtualization concepts includingย VMs, clusters, hosts, resource allocation, HA, capacity, and performance management.
- Experience with virtual machine provisioning, migrations, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management.
- Strong knowledge of enterpriseย compute, storage, networking, and infrastructure operations.
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring, alerting, performance management, and capacity planning.
- Exposure toย AIOps and proactive infrastructure monitoring.
- Strong hands-on experience withย PowerShell scriptingย and infrastructure automation.
- Understanding of backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity concepts.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation orย Infrastructure as Codeย practicesย is an advantage.
- Strong troubleshooting, debugging,ย and root-cause analysis skills.
- Experience supporting productionย virtualisation environmentsย with high availability and reliability requirements.
- Strongย understanding of infrastructureย change, incident, problem, and lifecycle management.
- Goodย communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work acrossย multiple technical teams.
- Proactive approach to identifying infrastructure risks and improvingย platform performance and operational efficiency.
- Ability to independently own technical issues and drive them through resolution.