Nutanix Administrator

Position: Nutanix Administrator

Hours of Operation: 24 7 rotational support (weekdays, nights, weekends, and holidays)

Job Type: Permanent
Required Experience: 2+ Years

Notice Period: Immediate

Locatiuon: Mumbai

Job Summary

The Nutanix Administrator is responsible for the end-to-end management of Nutanix-based HCI infrastructure across the clients primary data centres located in Hyderabad, Jaipur, and Mumbai. This includes server induction, monitoring, capacity and resource management, troubleshooting, incident handling, upgrades, and ensuring high system availability. The role also requires managing and mentoring a 247 operations team, coordinating with vendors, and delivering infrastructure projects end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities

Nutanix HCI & AHV Administration

• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Nutanix HCI infrastructure, including AOS, AHV, Prism Element, and Prism Central.
• Resolve issues related to hardware, software, configuration, performance, and operational failures across Nutanix environments.
• Manage Nutanix Prism Central for advanced operations, monitoring, RBAC, and policy management.
• Manage VM lifecycle, including provisioning, cloning, templates, snapshots, Protection Domains, scheduling, and replication.
• Perform VM migrations, including cross-cluster live migrations.
• Troubleshoot cluster health issues, networking, storage, redundancy factor, metadata, and performance anomalies.
• Manage AHV networking, including vSwitches, bridges, VLANs, and uplink configurations.
• Implement and maintain Nutanix Data Protection, Replication Factor, and disaster recovery configurations.
• Perform LCM-based upgrades of AOS, AHV, BIOS, firmware, HBA, and other hardware components.

Hardware & Infrastructure Management

• Hands-on experience with HPE, Dell, Cisco, and Lenovo hardware platforms.
• Perform firmware and BIOS upgrades using Nutanix LCM and OEM tools.
• Troubleshoot hardware alerts, disk failures, node reboots, memory errors, and cluster expansion tasks.

Tools, Automation & Process Management

• Experience with Nutanix Move for migrations and replications.
• Create and run automation playbooks, where applicable.
• Work with ServiceNow for Incident, Change, and Problem Management.
• Prepare Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for major incidents.
• Maintain documentation of SOPs, upgrade procedures, and architecture diagrams.

Operations & Team Management

• Participate in daily operational calls, major incident bridges, and weekly management meetings.
• Manage a 247 operations team, including task assignments, escalation handling, and skill development.
• Work with OEM vendors for support cases, hardware faults, and escalation coordination.
• Plan and execute cluster expansion, resource augmentation, and capacity forecasting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Strong technical expertise in Nutanix HCI, AHV virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure.