Role Overview
We are looking for a Nutanix Consultant to deploy, manage, and support enterprise Nutanix infrastructure and Kubernetes environments for our customers in Singapore. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience with Nutanix AHV, infrastructure operations, and virtualization, alongside practical Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting skills.
This is a hands-on, customer-facing role covering implementation, day-2 operations, technical troubleshooting, and operational handover.
Key Responsibilities
Nutanix infrastructure deployment and administration
- Deploy and configure Nutanix clusters, including AOS, AHV, Prism Element, and Prism Central.
- Validate infrastructure prerequisites, including hardware compatibility, networking, DNS, NTP, storage, and management connectivity.
- Provision and manage virtual machines, images, virtual networks, and storage containers.
- Configure and maintain role-based access, monitoring, alerts, and platform settings.
- Support cluster expansion, capacity planning, resource optimization, and infrastructure readiness assessments.
Day-2 operations and support
- Perform cluster health checks using Prism and Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC), investigate alerts, and resolve operational issues.
- Plan and execute supported AOS, AHV, Prism, and firmware upgrades using appropriate lifecycle tools and change controls.
- Manage VM lifecycle operations, host maintenance, live migration, and resource allocation.
- Troubleshoot issues across AHV, Controller VMs (CVMs), storage, networking, and guest operating systems.
- Configure and validate snapshots, replication, backup integrations, and disaster recovery procedures according to customer requirements.
- Investigate incidents, document root causes, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Coordinate with Nutanix support and customer teams to resolve technical escalations.
Kubernetes deployment and operations
- Deploy, administer, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters and supporting infrastructure.
- Manage cluster lifecycle activities, including upgrades, node maintenance, scaling, and health checks.
- Configure namespaces, RBAC, resource quotas, services, ingress, and persistent storage.
- Integrate Kubernetes with infrastructure networking, CSI-based storage, monitoring, logging, and backup solutions.
- Troubleshoot workload scheduling, pod failures, connectivity, storage, and resource utilization issues.
- Support Kubernetes workloads running on Nutanix infrastructure and follow platform-specific operational best practices.
Consulting, migration, and automation
- Gather customer requirements and translate them into practical implementation and operational plans.
- Support workload migrations to Nutanix AHV, including assessment, planning, testing, cutover, and post-migration validation.
- Automate repeatable administration tasks using PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, or platform APIs.
- Prepare deployment documentation, operational runbooks, and handover materials.
- Conduct knowledge-transfer sessions and communicate progress, risks, and technical issues clearly to stakeholders.
Required Experience And Skills
- 6–8 years of overall IT experience in infrastructure engineering, virtualization, systems administration, or technical consulting.
- Hands-on Nutanix AHV experience, including deployment, VM administration, troubleshooting, and day-2 operations.
- A minimum of 2 years of hands-on Kubernetes experience, including cluster administration and troubleshooting, not only application deployment.
- Strong working knowledge of Nutanix AOS, Prism Element, Prism Central, CVMs, and hyperconverged infrastructure concepts.
- Experience performing Nutanix health checks, upgrades, capacity management, and incident resolution.
- Sound understanding of Kubernetes architecture and resources, including pods, deployments, services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, persistent volumes, and StorageClasses.
- Practical Linux administration and troubleshooting skills; familiarity with Windows Server administration is beneficial.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, NTP, routing, switching, load balancing, and firewall requirements.
- Understanding of storage, data protection, high availability, replication, and disaster recovery concepts.
- Ability to use kubectl, work with YAML manifests, and troubleshoot across infrastructure and Kubernetes layers.
- Strong communication, documentation, problem-solving, and customer-facing skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience deploying and operating Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP).
- Experience migrating VMware workloads to AHV using Nutanix Move.
- Exposure to Nutanix Flow, Files, Objects, or Nutanix Cloud Manager.
- Experience with Nutanix CSI integrations and Kubernetes backup and recovery tools.
- Familiarity with Helm, GitOps/Argo CD, Prometheus, Grafana, or centralized logging.
- Relevant certifications such as Nutanix Certified Professional – Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI), Nutanix Certified Professional – Cloud Native (NCP-CN), or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.