Virtualization Engineer

Weekday (YC W21)

. Administer and maintain Nutanix AOS and Nutanix AHV virtualisation environments .

Posted 9/22/2026full-timeHyderabad • IndiaMid-LevelSenior💰 ₹500,000 - ₹1,500,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in administering and maintaining Nutanix AOS and AHV environments, VMware ESXi, and Cisco UCS infrastructure. Proficient in virtualization operations, automation through PowerShell scripting, and implementing proactive monitoring solutions.

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Nutanix AOS AdministrationVMware ESXi TroubleshootingCisco UCS Infrastructure SupportPowerShell Scripting for AutomationAIOps Proactive Monitoring

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Hard Skills

Virtual Machine ProvisioningInfrastructure MonitoringCapacity PlanningResource AllocationHigh Availability ConfigurationDisaster Recovery ManagementRoot-Cause AnalysisPerformance ManagementInfrastructure AutomationLifecycle Management

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationProactive Problem-SolvingTechnical Issue Ownership

Tools & Technologies

Nutanix AHVVMware ESXiCisco UCSAIOps ToolsPowerShell

Industry Keywords

Virtualization EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringEnterprise Data-Centre OperationsOperational EfficiencyChange Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

VMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Administer and maintain Nutanix AOS and Nutanix AHV virtualisation environments
Manage and support VMware ESXi hosts, clusters, and virtual machine environments
Support Cisco UCS compute 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 maintain high-availability and resilient virtualisation environments
Support infrastructure patching, upgrades, firmware updates, configuration changes, and technology refresh activities
Implement and maintain AIOps-based proactive monitoring, alerting, and health-check mechanisms
Identify performance bottlenecks, capacity constraints, and potential infrastructure failures before they affect production
Develop and maintain PowerShell scripts to automate virtualisation administration and repetitive operational tasks
Identify opportunities to improve 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, 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

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of experience in virtualization engineering, infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or enterprise data-centre operations
Strong hands-on experience with Nutanix AOS and Nutanix AHV
Proven experience administering and troubleshooting VMware ESXi environments
Practical experience with Cisco UCS compute hardware and enterprise server infrastructure
Strong understanding of virtualization concepts including VMs, clusters, hosts, resource allocation, HA, capacity, and performance management
Experience with virtual machine provisioning, migrations, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management
Strong knowledge of enterprise compute, storage, networking, and infrastructure operations
Experience with infrastructure monitoring, alerting, performance management, and capacity planning
Exposure to AIOps and proactive infrastructure monitoring
Strong hands-on experience with PowerShell scripting and infrastructure automation
Understanding of backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity concepts
Familiarity with infrastructure automation or Infrastructure as Code practices is an advantage
Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and root-cause analysis skills
Experience supporting production virtualisation environments with high availability and reliability requirements
Strong understanding of infrastructure change, incident, problem, and lifecycle management
Good communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work across multiple technical teams
Proactive approach to identifying infrastructure risks and improving platform performance and operational efficiency
Ability to independently own technical issues and drive them through resolution