Virtualisation Engineer - VMware / Hyper-V

Virtualisation Engineer - VMware / Hyper-V

Experience : 6+ years of relevant experience, including 2+ years in a Virtualisation Engineer or similar infrastructure role.

Location : UAE

Position Summary

We are looking for an experienced Virtualisation Engineer to design, implement, administer, and support enterprise virtualisation environments across VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.

This is a hands-on engineering role covering virtualisation platforms, clusters, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), virtual networking, storage integration, performance optimisation, capacity planning, migrations, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, administer, and support VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
• Develop and maintain High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documentation.
• Translate infrastructure and application requirements into virtualisation configurations and technical specifications.
• Deploy and configure VMware ESXi, vCenter Server, clusters, datastores, HA, DRS, vMotion, and virtual networking.
• Deploy and configure Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows Server Failover Clustering, Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), virtual switches, and Live Migration.
• Administer System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) for Hyper-V environments where applicable.
• Configure and manage virtual machines, including vCPU, memory, storage, networking, and virtual disks.
• Manage VM provisioning, cloning, templates, snapshots/checkpoints, migration, decommissioning, and lifecycle activities.
• Configure and manage VMware vSwitch/Distributed Switch and Hyper-V Virtual Switch environments.
• Integrate virtualisation platforms with enterprise SAN/NAS storage using FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and other supported protocols.
• Configure multipathing, datastores, storage volumes, and storage connectivity.
• Implement and maintain High Availability and workload mobility across virtualisation clusters.
• Support Disaster Recovery solutions, including VM replication, recovery, failover, and failback.
• Integrate virtualisation platforms with enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
• Perform platform patching, upgrades, firmware coordination, and lifecycle management.
• Perform capacity planning and utilisation analysis across CPU, memory, storage, and networking.
• Monitor and analyse host and cluster performance, resource contention, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Perform health checks, performance tuning, and configuration compliance reviews.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving virtual machines, hypervisors, clusters, storage, networking, and management platforms.
• Support P2V, V2V, VMware-to-Hyper-V, and other platform migration activities.
• Implement virtualisation security hardening, role-based access control, vulnerability remediation, and security patching.
• Support monitoring, ITSM, and event-management platform integrations.
• Participate in incident, problem, change, and capacity management processes.
• Support critical infrastructure incidents and perform root-cause analysis for recurring issues.
• Maintain technical documentation, configuration standards, operational procedures, runbooks, and platform inventories.

Technical Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with VMware ESXi and vSphere.
• Strong experience with vCenter Server, VMware HA, DRS, vMotion, and Distributed Switches.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server Failover Clustering.
• Experience with SCVMM, Live Migration, Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), and Hyper-V Virtual Switch.
• Experience with virtual networking and virtual storage.
• Knowledge of SAN/NAS technologies and storage protocols including FC, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB.
• Experience with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) or similar DR technologies.
• Understanding of DR orchestration solutions such as Zerto.
• Experience integrating virtualisation platforms with backup and recovery solutions.
• Strong knowledge of High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
• Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimisation.
• Experience with platform patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Experience with virtualisation platform migrations, including P2V and V2V.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience producing and maintaining HLD, LLD, build documentation, and operational procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of relevant experience, including at least 2+ years in a similar virtualisation or infrastructure engineering role.
• VMware VCP-DCV certification is preferred.
• ITIL 4 Foundation is preferred.
• VCAP, VCDX, or relevant Microsoft virtualisation certifications are an advantage.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong technical leadership and team collaboration skills.

Key Skills

VMware vSphere | VMware ESXi | vCenter | Hyper-V | SCVMM | Failover Clustering | HA / DRS | vMotion | Live Migration | SRM | Zerto | Virtual Networking | SAN / NAS | Disaster Recovery | Backup & Recovery | P2V / V2V | Capacity Planning | Performance Tuning | HLD / LLD