Virtualization Architect

Black & Grey HR is recruiting for an established technology solutions and services provider in Doha, Qatar. Our client is seeking an experienced Virtualization Architect to design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade virtualization platforms, with a strong focus on Nutanix technologies. The role will be responsible for building highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient virtualization environments across hybrid and multi-cloud platforms, including active active datacenter architectures, software-defined networking, disaster recovery, and centralized infrastructure management.

Key Responsibilities:

Virtualization Architecture & Design

• Design and maintain enterprise virtualization architecture standards, with a primary focus on Nutanix platforms.
• Define architecture blueprints covering compute, storage, virtualization, and software defined networking components.
• Ensure virtualization designs meet requirements for scalability, performance, security, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in architecture reviews and ensure solutions align with enterprise technology standards.
• Design resilient virtualization architectures supporting business-critical workloads and enterprise applications.

Nutanix Platform Leadership

• Lead the design, deployment, and operation of Nutanix AHV, AOS, and Prism environments.
• Provide hands-on technical expertise in Nutanix cluster design, configuration, lifecycle management, and upgrades.
• Optimize Nutanix infrastructure components for performance, capacity, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Define Nutanix platform standards, best practices, and operational procedures.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex Nutanix infrastructure issues.
• Design and support hybrid and multi-cloud virtualization environments.
• Integrate on-premises virtualization platforms with public cloud services where required.
• Support cloud-adjacent and cloud-integrated workloads across enterprise environments.
• Ensure seamless integration between on-premises virtualization infrastructure and cloud platforms.
• Contribute to cloud transformation and virtualization modernization initiatives.

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

• Design and operate highly available virtualization platforms, including active-active datacenter architectures.
• Design and implement synchronous and asynchronous replication solutions.
• Support metro clusters, disaster recovery, business continuity, and DR orchestration initiatives.
• Plan, execute, and document disaster recovery testing and business continuity scenarios.
• Ensure virtualization platforms meet defined availability, resilience, and recovery objectives.

Software-Defined Networking & Security

• Design and operate software-defined networking solutions within enterprise virtualization environments.
• Implement secure network segmentation, traffic management, and network resiliency.
• Apply micro-segmentation, Zero Trust, and defense-in-depth principles across virtualized environments.
• Collaborate with network and security teams to ensure secure and resilient infrastructure architectures.
• Support troubleshooting of complex virtualization networking and security issues.

Centralized Management & Automation

• Implement and maintain centralized management, monitoring, and automation platforms.
• Provide unified visibility across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and disaster recovery layers.
• Define operational dashboards, alerts, performance metrics, and infrastructure KPIs.
• Support automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual activities.
• Establish standardized monitoring and management practices across virtualization platforms.

Operations, Monitoring & Optimization

• Ensure the stability, availability, security, and performance of enterprise virtualization platforms.
• Conduct capacity planning, performance analysis, optimization, and lifecycle management.
• Lead root cause analysis for complex infrastructure incidents and recurring issues.
• Identify opportunities for continuous service improvement and infrastructure optimization.
• Maintain operational standards, procedures, and technical documentation.

Project Delivery & Technical Leadership

• Lead virtualization initiatives end-to-end, including new deployments, upgrades, migrations, consolidations, and technology refreshes.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to infrastructure engineers during implementation and operations.
• Support automation, standard operating procedures, technical documentation, and knowledge transfer.
• Coordinate with vendors and technology partners during solution implementation and support engagements.

Stakeholder & Cross-Team Collaboration

• Work closely with network, storage, security, database, application, and infrastructure teams.
• Communicate technical designs, architecture decisions, risks, and operational considerations to technical and business stakeholders.
• Participate in technical workshops, architecture reviews, and solution discussions.
• Coordinate with vendors and partners to ensure successful delivery and resolution of technical issues.

Requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8–10 years of experience in enterprise virtualization and infrastructure environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Nutanix platforms in production environments.
• Proven experience designing and operating active-active datacenter architectures.
• Strong experience with hyperconverged, hybrid, and multi-cloud virtualization environments.
• Solid understanding of High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Business Continuity concepts.
• Hands-on experience with software-defined networking and centralized infrastructure management.
• Experience with Nutanix AHV, AOS, Prism Central, and Nutanix lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of virtualization networking, micro-segmentation, and infrastructure security controls.
• Experience with active-active datacenters, metro clusters, replication, and DR orchestration.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across complex, multi-layer infrastructure environments.
• Excellent documentation, communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Required Skillset

• Nutanix AHV, AOS, Prism Central, and Lifecycle Management.
• Enterprise virtualization architecture and HCI platforms.
• Active-active datacenter architecture and metro cluster technologies.
• Disaster Recovery, replication, backup, business continuity, and DR orchestration.
• Hybrid and multi-cloud virtualization environments.
• Software-defined networking, virtualization networking, and micro-segmentation.
• Zero Trust architecture and defense-in-depth security principles.
• Centralized infrastructure monitoring, management, automation, and capacity planning.
• Infrastructure performance optimization and lifecycle management.
• Architecture documentation, technical design, solution blueprints, and operational procedures.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with infrastructure, network, security, storage, database, and application teams.

Certifications

• Nutanix certifications such as NCP, NCM, or equivalent are highly desirable.
• Software-defined networking / network virtualization certification is strongly preferred.
• Cloud foundation certifications are desirable.

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