Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pellera Technologies is seeking a Consultant / Virtualization Engineer within its Digital Infrastructure Practice to help clients advance digital transformation initiatives. The role involves designing, deploying, administering, and troubleshooting Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV environments, as well as supporting infrastructure implementation, automation, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
Responsibilities
- Engage with clients to understand their business goals, infrastructure challenges, and technology requirements
- Translate client requirements into actionable recommendations and solution proposals, aligning with best practices and industry standards
- Collaborate with solution architects and technical leads to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions
- Support the implementation and deployment of digital infrastructure solutions, working closely with engineering teams and third-party vendors
- Configure and deploy cloud environments, virtual networks, and infrastructure components according to design specifications
- Conduct testing, troubleshooting, and validation to ensure solution functionality, performance, and security
- Assist project managers in planning, scheduling, and tracking project activities, milestones, and deliverables
- Design, deploy, administer, and maintain Microsoft Hyper-V environments
- Configure and manage Windows Failover Clustering for high availability
- Administer Hyper-V Replica and disaster recovery solutions
- Create, configure, and maintain virtual machines, virtual switches, and storage
- Monitor Hyper-V host performance, resource utilization, and capacity planning
- Perform Hyper-V host upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management
- Troubleshoot Hyper-V, Windows Server, clustering, and virtualization-related issues
- Support integration with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and enterprise networking
- Automate Hyper-V administration using PowerShell
- Maintain documentation for Hyper-V infrastructure and operational procedures
- Design, deploy, and administer Nutanix clusters utilizing AHV
- Manage Prism Central and Prism Element environments
- Configure and maintain Nutanix storage, compute, and networking resources
- Monitor cluster health, performance, and capacity using Nutanix tools
- Perform lifecycle management (LCM), firmware updates, and cluster upgrades
- Troubleshoot Nutanix infrastructure, AHV, storage, and networking issues
- Implement high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions
- Optimize workloads and resource utilization across Nutanix clusters
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams on virtualization, networking, and storage initiatives
- Maintain technical documentation and operational standards
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times
Skills
- 5+ years of experience administering Microsoft Hyper-V environments
- Strong experience with:
- Microsoft Hyper-V, both Core and GUI installations
- Windows Server
- Windows Failover Clustering
- Hyper-V Replica
- PowerShell scripting
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
- Windows Admin Center
- Experience with enterprise storage technologies supporting Hyper-V
- Experience implementing backup and disaster recovery solutions
- Strong understanding of Windows networking and virtualization best practices
- 3–5+ years of experience administering Nutanix infrastructure
- Strong experience with:
- Nutanix AHV
- Prism Central
- Prism Element
- Nutanix Lifecycle Manager (LCM)
- Experience with Nutanix storage and distributed architecture
- Experience performing Nutanix cluster upgrades and expansion
- Understanding of Nutanix networking, virtual networking, and security
- Experience with disaster recovery and backup solutions supporting Nutanix
- Experience with enterprise virtualization technologies
- Knowledge of TCP/IP networking, VLANs, DNS, and DHCP
- Experience with enterprise backup solutions (Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, etc.)
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to automate repetitive tasks using PowerShell or similar scripting languages
- Experience working in highly available, mission-critical environments
- Ability to participate in after-hours maintenance and on-call support
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times
- Experience with both Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV
- Experience migrating workloads between virtualization platforms
- Experience with Microsoft Azure or hybrid cloud solutions
- Familiarity with VMware vSphere environments and migration strategies
- Infrastructure as Code and automation experience
- Industry certifications such as: Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP)
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