Virtualization SME

Virtualization SME (Subject Matter Expert)

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 8–15 Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Virtualization SME to design, implement, optimize, and support enterprise virtualization platforms across on-premises, private, and hybrid cloud environments. The candidate will act as a technical lead for virtualization infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and scalability of mission-critical systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage enterprise virtualization environments.
• Lead design and implementation of VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and other virtualization technologies.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and infrastructure optimization.
• Manage ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, datastores, distributed switches, and virtual networking.
• Drive virtualization modernization initiatives, including hybrid cloud and container integration.
• Design and support High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion, SRM, and backup solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex virtualization, storage, networking, and performance issues.
• Collaborate with security, cloud, network, and platform engineering teams.
• Define infrastructure standards, governance, and best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership.

Required Skills

Virtualization

• VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter)
• VMware vSAN
• VMware NSX (preferred)
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Nutanix AHV

Cloud & Containers

• Azure / AWS virtualization workloads
• Kubernetes/OpenShift fundamentals
• Containerized infrastructure concepts

Storage & Backup

• SAN/NAS technologies
• NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage
• Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik

Networking

• TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, DHCP
• Load Balancers
• SDN concepts

Automation

• PowerShell
• Python
• Ansible
• Infrastructure as Code concepts

Qualifications

• BE/B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science, IT, Electronics, or related disciplines.
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP) preferred.
• VMware Advanced Professional (VCAP) certification will be an added advantage.
• Experience managing large-scale enterprise virtualization environments.