Summary
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An established European organization seeks a Virtualization Engineer to operate and modernize enterprise virtualization platforms. The role involves VMware and Nutanix infrastructure, hypervisor upgrades, capacity planning, monitoring, automation, and disaster recovery. Candidates will contribute to secure and resilient infrastructure supporting mission-critical services.
Highlights
Work on mission-critical European institutional infrastructure, with opportunities to improve platform resilience, security, automation, and operational efficiency. Gain exposure to enterprise virtualization technologies and infrastructure modernization.
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
