Nutanix Engineer

Nutanix Infrastructure Engineer

Whitehall Resources currently require an experience Nutanix Engineer to work with a key client

**Please note 2-3 days onsite in London and INSIDE IR35**

Role Description:

We are seeking an experienced Nutanix Infrastructure & Technical Specialist to support, manage, and enhance a modern hybrid cloud infrastructure built on Nutanix technologies. The successful candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day operation, optimisation, security, resilience, and migration of workloads across Nutanix environments while ensuring high levels of availability, performance, and operational excellence.

This role requires strong technical expertise across Nutanix NC2, AOS, AHV, infrastructure operations, disaster recovery, security, and migration activities. The candidate will work closely with infrastructure, security, application, and operational teams to deliver reliable and scalable platforms supporting critical business services.

Key Responsibilities:

Nutanix Platform Administration

* Manage and administer Nutanix environments, including NC2, AOS, AHV, Prism Central, and Prism Element.

* Perform platform maintenance activities, including Life Cycle Manager (LCM) upgrades, patching, health checks, and capacity management.

* Monitor system performance and implement improvements to maximise platform stability and efficiency.

* Provide technical support and troubleshooting for infrastructure-related incidents and service requests.

* Manage the complete virtual machine lifecycle across the Nutanix estate.

* Create, deploy, modify, start, stop, clone, snapshot, restore, and decommission virtual machines as required.

* Develop and maintain VM templates and standards to support consistent deployment practices.

* Ensure adherence to governance, security, and operational policies throughout the VM lifecycle.

Networking & Connectivity

* Support infrastructure networking including VPCs, VLANs, subnets, routing, and east-west traffic management.

* Configure and maintain micro-segmentation solutions using Nutanix Flow and understand concepts related to NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) technologies.

* Work closely with network teams to resolve connectivity issues and improve overall network performance and security.

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

* Design, support, and test disaster recovery solutions using Nutanix Leap and replication technologies.

* Execute planned and unplanned failovers and failbacks while ensuring minimal disruption to services.

* Manage and validate Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).

* Support partial or subset failover scenarios to ensure business-critical services remain operational during outages.

Security & Compliance

* Implement and maintain role-based access controls (RBAC) across infrastructure platforms.

* Integrate systems with Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID for secure authentication and identity management.

* Support encryption-at-rest configurations and ensure compliance with security standards.

* Work with security teams to maintain network security policies, privileged access controls using CyberArk, and monitoring integrations with Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender.

Operations, Monitoring & Backup

* Configure proactive monitoring, alerting, and automation through Prism and X-Play.

* Manage backup and recovery processes using Cohesity and validate restoration capabilities.

* Integrate infrastructure alerts into enterprise monitoring tools such as OpsRamp to improve operational visibility.

* Produce operational documentation, runbooks, and reporting metrics to support governance and service management activities.

Migration & Transformation

* Lead and support infrastructure migration activities, including migrations from VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV using Nutanix Move.

* Coordinate workload transitions with business and technical stakeholders.

* Perform backup restorations, data validation, and post-migration testing to ensure successful cutover and service continuity.

Skills & Experience Required

* Strong hands-on experience with Nutanix NC2, AOS, AHV, Prism Central, and Prism Element.

* Proven knowledge of virtualization, cloud infrastructure, and VM lifecycle management.

* Experience with networking technologies, segmentation, and security controls.

* Practical experience supporting disaster recovery and resilience solutions.

* Knowledge of CyberArk, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Cohesity, and enterprise monitoring tools.

* Experience delivering migration projects and infrastructure transformations.

* Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and stakeholder management skills