Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Arctiq is a professional IT services and managed services company focused on enterprise security, modern infrastructure, and platform engineering. The Delivery Consultant will lead the end-to-end technical execution of Nutanix migrations, including assessment of vSphere environments, migration planning, Nutanix Move execution, guest remediation, application validation, and operational handoff.
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery and assessment of the existing vSphere estate: VM inventory, dependencies, network/VLAN mapping, storage profiles, guest OS and application constraints
- Design and document the migration wave plan, including grouping by application dependency, maintenance windows, rollback criteria, and success criteria
- Deploy, configure, and operate Nutanix Move at scale, including seeding, delta syncs, cutover scheduling, and throughput tuning
- Identify and remediate VMs that are not Move-eligible (unsupported guest OS, RDMs, shared disks, VMware Tools issues, snapshots) and define alternate migration paths
- Coordinate cutovers with application owners, execute post-migration validation, and manage issue triage
- Handle guest-level post-migration tasks: VirtIO driver installation, VMware Tools removal, NGT installation, IP/MAC retention, and license re-validation
- Produce operational runbooks, as-built documentation, and knowledge transfer for the customer's operations team
- Track and report migration progress, risks, and issues to the project lead on a weekly basis
Skills
- 5+ years of enterprise virtualization experience, including 3+ years hands-on with Nutanix AHV, Prism Element, and Prism Central
- Demonstrated experience leading at least one VMware-to-Nutanix migration of 500+ VMs using Nutanix Move
- Strong working knowledge of vSphere (ESXi, vCenter, vDS, vSAN or SAN-backed storage) sufficient to assess and prepare the source environment
- Experience with Nutanix external storage configurations (NCI with third-party arrays) and Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN connectivity
- Experience with Windows and Linux guest OS remediation in migration contexts
- Ability to work independently with application owners and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Nutanix Certified Professional – Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) or higher
- Hands-on experience with Pure Storage FlashArray (Purity, ActiveCluster, volume management, host connectivity)
- Experience with HPE Synergy (OneView, server profiles, Virtual Connect / Interconnect configuration)
- Nutanix Certified Master or NCX certification
- Experience with Nutanix Flow, Prism Central automation, or API/scripting (PowerShell, Python, REST) for migration tooling and reporting
- Prior experience in a consulting or services-delivery role
Benefits
- Remote work; candidates can be anywhere in the USA or Canada.
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