Summary
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Join an infrastructure engineering team responsible for keeping a mission-critical virtualization environment secure, resilient, and efficient. You will administer VMware vSphere and Nutanix clusters, handle hypervisor patching and upgrades, manage virtualization components, monitor performance and capacity, build automation with PowerCLI and orchestration tools, and contribute to disaster recovery operations.
Highlights
Opportunity to operate and evolve mission-critical virtualization infrastructure, with hands-on responsibility for VMware and Nutanix platforms, automation, observability, capacity planning, security, resilience, and disaster recovery.
Description
Position Summary
A Virtualization Engineer responsible for operating, maintaining, and evolving the European Institution's virtualization platforms.
This includes VMware-based infrastructure, Nutanix-based clusters, automation, observability, capacity planning, and disaster recovery activities.
The engineer ensures a secure, resilient, and efficient virtualization environment supporting mission‑critical services.
Duties and responsibilities
• Operate, maintain, and optimize VMware vSphere clusters across LAN, iDMZ, and eDMZ zones.
• Manage and support Nutanix‑based virtualization clusters.
• Perform hypervisor lifecycle management: patching, hotfixing, version upgrades, and obsolescence handling.
• Manage vCenter instances, ESXi clusters, VSAN clusters, SRM configurations, and related tooling.
• Ensure capacity planning and performance monitoring using Aria Operations.
• Develop and maintain PowerCLI scripts and automation workflows using vRealize Automation Orchestrator.
• Support disaster recovery scenarios using SRM and Metro Availability.
• Automate provisioning tasks delegated to front‑office teams (VM creation, resource changes, snapshots…).
• Apply CISO policies and architectural design updates provided by APC.
• Collaborate with SAN and network teams during ongoing evolution studies (virtual LUNs, synchronous replication, metro clustering).
Qualifications
• 3+ years of experience in virtualization engineering and infrastructure operations.
• Deep expertise with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, SRM, VSAN.
• Experience managing Nutanix clusters in production environments.
• Strong skills in PowerCLI scripting and automation workflows.
• Experience with observability tools such as Aria Operations.
• Solid understanding of SAN, virtual storage, synchronous replication, and DR architectures.
• Knowledge of automation orchestrators and infrastructure provisioning pipelines.
• Experience in highly available multi‑site architectures.
Key Competencies
• Virtualization Platforms: VMware vSphere, Nutanix.
• Automation & Scripting: PowerCLI, Orchestrator workflows.
• Monitoring & Observability: Aria Operations.
• Disaster Recovery: SRM Array-based, Metro Availability.
• Operational Excellence: Capacity planning, lifecycle management, incident resolution.
• Security & Compliance: Application of CISO policies, secure configuration baselines.
• Collaboration: Work with storage, network, and architectural teams.
General information
Start date: ASAP
Duration: FULL Time
Shift: YES
On Call: YES
Language: ENGLISH / FRENCH
