Virtualization Architect

Job Information

• Date Opened 04/02/2026
• Job Type Full time
• Work Experience 5+ years
• Industry IT Services
• City Doha
• Province Ad Dawhah
• Country Qatar
• Postal Code 000000

Job Description

Black & Grey HR is recruiting for an established technology solutions and services provider in Doha, Qatar. Our client is seeking an experienced Virtualization Architect to design, implement, and operate enterprisegrade virtualization platforms, with a strong focus on Nutanix technologies. The role will be responsible for building highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient virtualization environments across hybrid and multicloud platforms, including active active datacenter architectures, softwaredefined networking, disaster recovery, and centralized infrastructure management.

Key Responsibilities:

Virtualization Architecture & Design

• Design and maintain enterprise virtualization architecture standards, with a primary focus on Nutanix platforms.

• Define architecture blueprints covering compute, storage, virtualization, and software defined networking components.

• Ensure virtualization designs meet requirements for scalability, performance, security, availability, and operational efficiency.

• Participate in architecture reviews and ensure solutions align with enterprise technology standards.

• Design resilient virtualization architectures supporting businesscritical workloads and enterprise applications.

Nutanix Platform Leadership

• Lead the design, deployment, and operation of Nutanix AHV, AOS, and Prism environments.

• Provide handson technical expertise in Nutanix cluster design, configuration, lifecycle management, and upgrades.

• Optimize Nutanix infrastructure components for performance, capacity, availability, and operational efficiency.

• Define Nutanix platform standards, best practices, and operational procedures.

• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex Nutanix infrastructure issues.

Hybrid & MultiCloud Integration

• Design and support hybrid and multicloud virtualization environments.

• Integrate onpremises virtualization platforms with public cloud services where required.

• Support cloudadjacent and cloudintegrated workloads across enterprise environments.

• Ensure seamless integration between onpremises virtualization infrastructure and cloud platforms.

• Contribute to cloud transformation and virtualization modernization initiatives.

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

• Design and operate highly available virtualization platforms, including activeactive datacenter architectures.

• Design and implement synchronous and asynchronous replication solutions.

• Support metro clusters, disaster recovery, business continuity, and DR orchestration initiatives.

• Plan, execute, and document disaster recovery testing and business continuity scenarios.

• Ensure virtualization platforms meet defined availability, resilience, and recovery objectives.

SoftwareDefined Networking & Security

• Design and operate softwaredefined networking solutions within enterprise virtualization environments.

• Implement secure network segmentation, traffic management, and network resiliency.

• Apply microsegmentation, Zero Trust, and defenseindepth principles across virtualized environments.

• Collaborate with network and security teams to ensure secure and resilient infrastructure architectures.

• Support troubleshooting of complex virtualization networking and security issues.

Centralized Management & Automation

• Implement and maintain centralized management, monitoring, and automation platforms.

• Provide unified visibility across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and disaster recovery layers.

• Define operational dashboards, alerts, performance metrics, and infrastructure KPIs.

• Support automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual activities.

• Establish standardized monitoring and management practices across virtualization platforms.

Operations, Monitoring & Optimization

• Ensure the stability, availability, security, and performance of enterprise virtualization platforms.

• Conduct capacity planning, performance analysis, optimization, and lifecycle management.

• Lead root cause analysis for complex infrastructure incidents and recurring issues.

• Identify opportunities for continuous service improvement and infrastructure optimization.

• Maintain operational standards, procedures, and technical documentation.

Project Delivery & Technical Leadership

• Lead virtualization initiatives endtoend, including new deployments, upgrades, migrations, consolidations, and technology refreshes.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to infrastructure engineers during implementation and operations.

• Support automation, standard operating procedures, technical documentation, and knowledge transfer.

• Coordinate with vendors and technology partners during solution implementation and support engagements.

Stakeholder & CrossTeam Collaboration

• Work closely with network, storage, security, database, application, and infrastructure teams.

• Communicate technical designs, architecture decisions, risks, and operational considerations to technical and business stakeholders.

• Participate in technical workshops, architecture reviews, and solution discussions.

• Coordinate with vendors and partners to ensure successful delivery and resolution of technical issues.

Requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

• 8–10 years of experience in enterprise virtualization and infrastructure environments.

• Strong handson experience with Nutanix platforms in production environments.

• Proven experience designing and operating activeactive datacenter architectures.

• Strong experience with hyperconverged, hybrid, and multicloud virtualization environments.

• Solid understanding of High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Business Continuity concepts.

• Handson experience with softwaredefined networking and centralized infrastructure management.

• Experience with Nutanix AHV, AOS, Prism Central, and Nutanix lifecycle management.

• Strong understanding of virtualization networking, microsegmentation, and infrastructure security controls.

• Experience with activeactive datacenters, metro clusters, replication, and DR orchestration.

• Strong troubleshooting skills across complex, multilayer infrastructure environments.

• Excellent documentation, communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Required Skillset

• Nutanix AHV, AOS, Prism Central, and Lifecycle Management.

• Enterprise virtualization architecture and HCI platforms.

• Activeactive datacenter architecture and metro cluster technologies.

• Disaster Recovery, replication, backup, business continuity, and DR orchestration.

• Hybrid and multicloud virtualization environments.

• Softwaredefined networking, virtualization networking, and microsegmentation.

• Zero Trust architecture and defenseindepth security principles.

• Centralized infrastructure monitoring, management, automation, and capacity planning.

• Infrastructure performance optimization and lifecycle management.

• Architecture documentation, technical design, solution blueprints, and operational procedures.

• Strong crossfunctional collaboration with infrastructure, network, security, storage, database, and application teams.

Certifications

• Nutanix certifications such as NCP, NCM, or equivalent are highly desirable.

• Softwaredefined networking / network virtualization certification is strongly preferred.

• Cloud foundation certifications are desirable.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary + Benefits Package