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Responsibilities
Administer and maintain VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter environments, including HA/DRS, clustering, patching, upgrades, lifecycle, and capacity management.
Operate Nutanix AHV clusters through Prism, including AOS and LCM upgrades, cluster health, storage containers, and performance management.
Provision, migrate, and decommission virtual machines in accordance with technical standards and change management processes.
Integrate virtualization platforms with Disaster Recovery solutions, including Zerto replication, failover testing, and recovery runbooks.
Manage Dell PowerEdge servers, including firmware updates, hardware health, iDRAC, and vendor support cases.
Handle L3 incidents and problems escalated from the Service Desk and EOC, perform root cause analysis, and drive permanent resolution.
Maintain monitoring, capacity reports, operational documentation, and technical standards for the virtualization and compute environment.
Automate routine operational tasks using PowerCLI and REST APIs.
Collaborate with Storage, Backup, Network, and Database teams to ensure end-to-end service availability and performance.
Requirements
5+ Yrs. of experience in enterprise virtualization and compute environments, with strong expertise in at least two virtualization platforms.
Deep hands-on experience with VMware vCenter/ESXi, including HA/DRS, lifecycle management, and capacity planning.
Hands-on experience with Nutanix AHV, AOS, Prism, and LCM.
Experience managing Dell PowerEdge server hardware, firmware, and health monitoring.
Proven experience provisioning, migrating, and decommissioning VMs and integrating virtualization environments with DR solutions.
Experience handling L3 incidents, problem management, and root cause analysis in enterprise environments.
Strong understanding of virtualization monitoring, capacity management, and operational documentation.
VMware VCP-DCV – Strongly Preferred.
Nutanix NCP-MCI – Preferred.
Oracle Linux / KVM certification – Preferred.
Experience with PowerCLI and REST API automation is preferred.
Experience with Nutanix DR/replication and Zerto is preferred.
Experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes is preferred.
Exposure to Oracle PCA/OVM, Oracle Linux, OCI, or Azure, including DR connectivity, is an advantage.
