Virtualization Engineer

Role Purpose

This role is responsible for the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of enterprise-level virtualization platforms, with a significant emphasis on Nutanix technologies. The objective is to ensure highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient hybrid and multi-cloud virtualization environments. This includes managing active-active data center architectures, software-defined networking, disaster recovery strategies, and centralized management systems. The position requires hands-on technical leadership and serves as a crucial liaison with infrastructure, network, and application teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise virtualization architecture standards, primarily focusing on Nutanix platforms.
• Develop blueprints for compute, storage, and software-defined networking components, ensuring designs support scalability, performance, security, and operational efficiency.
• Lead the design, deployment, and operation of Nutanix AHV, AOS, and Prism environments, providing expertise in cluster design, lifecycle management, and upgrades.
• Design and support hybrid and multi-cloud virtualization environments, integrating on-premises platforms with public cloud services as needed.
• Develop and operate highly available virtualization platforms, including active-active data center architectures, and implement disaster recovery solutions using synchronous and asynchronous replication.
• Design and operate software-defined networking solutions within virtualized environments, ensuring secure segmentation, traffic management, and network resiliency.
• Implement and maintain centralized management, monitoring, and automation platforms for unified visibility across compute, storage, network, and DR layers.
• Ensure the stability, availability, and performance of virtualization platforms through capacity planning, performance optimization, and lifecycle management.
• Lead virtualization initiatives from end-to-end, including new builds, upgrades, migrations, and consolidations, providing technical leadership during implementation and operations.
• Collaborate closely with network, storage, security, database, and application teams, and communicate technical designs and operational considerations to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Possess 8 to 10 years of experience in enterprise virtualization and infrastructure environments.
• Demonstrate strong hands-on experience with Nutanix platforms in production settings.
• Proven track record in designing and operating active-active data center architectures.
• Solid experience with hyperconverged, hybrid, and multi-cloud virtualization environments.
• Strong understanding of disaster recovery, business continuity, and high availability concepts.
• Hands-on experience with software-defined networking and centralized infrastructure management.
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Nutanix certifications (NCP, NCM, or equivalent) are highly desirable.
• Network-defined/software-defined networking certification is strongly preferred.
• Cloud foundation certifications are desirable, but deep Azure or GCP specialization is not required.
• Expert knowledge of Nutanix AHV, AOS, Prism Central, and lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of virtualization networking, micro-segmentation, and security controls.
• Experience with active-active data centers, metro clusters, and DR orchestration.
• Proficiency in centralized monitoring, automation, and capacity management.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-layered infrastructure issues.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Additional Information

This role is based in MENA and requires an onsite presence.