Senior Virtualization Engineer

As a Senior Virtualization Engineer, you will design, build, and automate virtualization solutions (primarily Hyper-V) across a large-scale hybrid environment. Working within the standards and reference architectures set by the Virtualization Architect, you will own the design and implementation of specific clusters, automation workflows, and self-healing components - translating platform direction into working, well-engineered infrastructure. This is a hands-on senior engineering role with real design responsibility on scoped problems; it is not an operations role. You will solve hard technical problems and contribute to platform standards, without owning fleet-wide architecture strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement Hyper-V clusters and virtualization solutions against established platform standards, including Failover Clustering, storage, and networking configuration
• Contribute to cluster performance engineering and right-sizing - analyze utilization data, tune configurations, and recommend sizing and consolidation improvements
• Build and maintain infrastructure automation and orchestration using Ansible and Terraform (provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle as code)
• Implement self-healing and auto-remediation components for host, cluster, and VM health, working from patterns defined at the architecture level
• Develop advanced PowerShell automation for provisioning, configuration, reporting, and remediation
• Build and maintain virtualization host templates and standardized build pipelines
• Support hybrid-cloud integration work (Azure preferred), including connectivity and workload placement between on-prem and cloud
• Establish and maintain performance baselines, monitoring, and observability for cluster health, capacity, and utilization
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and root-cause analysis on virtualization, cluster, and performance issues across the fleet
• Contribute to reference architectures, design documentation, and standards; provide technical guidance to junior engineers Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise virtualization, with primary strength in Hyper-V and Failover Clustering (VMware vSphere a plus)
• Practical experience with cluster performance tuning, capacity planning, and right-sizing in large environments
• Solid automation and orchestration skills: Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure-as-code and configuration management
• Experience implementing or supporting self-healing / auto-remediation for infrastructure health
• Advanced PowerShell scripting for automation, reporting, and remediation
• Working knowledge of the underlying stack: compute, storage (SAN/NAS/S2D/vSAN), and networking as they relate to virtualization performance
• Exposure to hybrid-cloud / public cloud (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP relevant)
• Understanding of HA/DR, live migration, and workload mobility

General Skills & Competencies

• Self-directed engineer who can take a scoped design problem and drive it to implementation with limited oversight
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting mindset; grounds decisions in performance and utilization data
• Clear written and verbal communication; able to document designs and explain technical trade-offs to peers and leadership
• Collaborative contributor who mentors junior engineers and shares knowledge
• Keeps current with virtualization, automation, and cloud technologies

Experience Required

• 6+ years in infrastructure or virtualization engineering, including hands-on design and implementation of Hyper-V (or comparable) at scale, plus automation with Ansible/Terraform

Certifications Preferred

• Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate (AZ-800/AZ-801)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
• VMware VCP-DCV (if VMware is in scope)