Cloud Engineer responsible for managingvirtualization and hyperconverged infrastructure platforms, specifically VMwareand Nutanix. The objective is to ensure high availability, scalability,performance, and security of the virtual infrastructure supporting businessapplications.
Responsibities:
- Manage VMware and Nutanix environments end-to-end
- Ensure performance, availability, and security compliance
- Provide proactive recommendations and continuous improvements
- Maintain a resilient and highly available virtual infrastructure
- Optimise performance and resource utilisation across clusters
- Ensure secure and compliant virtual environments
- Support automation, scalability, and cloud-like operations
- Deliver efficient provisioning and lifecycle management
- Deploy, configure, and manage VMware environments (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter)
- Manage clusters, resource pools, and virtual machines (VMs)
- Configure and maintain HA, DRS, and vMotion
- Perform lifecycle management (patching, upgrades, firmware coordination)
- Manage templates, snapshots, and VM provisioning
- Deploy and maintain Nutanix AOS and AHV environments
- Manage clusters using Nutanix Prism (Element/Central)
- Provision and manage virtual machines and storage containers
- Configure and maintain HA, live migration, and storage policies
- Perform cluster expansion, upgrades, and health monitoring
- Integrate VMware and Nutanix environments with backup solutions
- Manage VM-level backups and replication
- Perform restore operations (file-level, VM-level, full recovery)
- Conduct periodic recovery and DR testing
- Provide support for virtualization-related issues
- Troubleshoot VM, host, and cluster issues
- Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for major incidents
- Collaborate with network, storage, and system teams
Qualifications:
- Possess fundamental knowledge of security and vulnerability-based approach to security hardening.
- Hands-on experience in VMware, Windows Server and standard platform Monitoring
- Candidates will need to coordinate and work closely with other parts of IT and the business to implement recommendations as needed.
- Administer, monitor, and maintain security infrastructure (Patch, Upgrade, and Monitor for issues).
- Significant understanding and ability to work with Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems.
- Strong attention to detail with analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Awareness of cybersecurity trends, issues, and hacking techniques.
- VMware: vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, SRM, vSAN
- Nutanix: AOS, AHV, Prism, Leap, Calm
- Automation: PowerCLI, Ansible,
- Backup: Commvault
Must have relevant experience in Security or security related fields.