Virtualisation Engineer - VMware / Hyper-V

Experience: 6 years of relevant experience, including 2 years in a Virtualisation Engineer or similar infrastructure role.

Location: UAE

Position Summary

We are looking for an experienced Virtualisation Engineer to design, implement, administer, and support enterprise virtualisation environments across VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.

This is a hands-on engineering role covering virtualisation platforms, clusters, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), virtual networking, storage integration, performance optimisation, capacity planning, migrations, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, configure, administer, and support VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
Develop and maintain High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documentation.
Translate infrastructure and application requirements into virtualisation configurations and technical specifications.
Deploy and configure VMware ESXi, vCenter Server, clusters, datastores, HA, DRS, vMotion, and virtual networking.
Deploy and configure Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows Server Failover Clustering, Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), virtual switches, and Live Migration.
Administer System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) for Hyper-V environments where applicable.
Configure and manage virtual machines, including vCPU, memory, storage, networking, and virtual disks.
Manage VM provisioning, cloning, templates, snapshots/checkpoints, migration, decommissioning, and lifecycle activities.
Configure and manage VMware vSwitch/Distributed Switch and Hyper-V Virtual Switch environments.
Integrate virtualisation platforms with enterprise SAN/NAS storage using FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and other supported protocols.
Configure multipathing, datastores, storage volumes, and storage connectivity.
Implement and maintain High Availability and workload mobility across virtualisation clusters.
Support Disaster Recovery solutions, including VM replication, recovery, failover, and failback.
Integrate virtualisation platforms with enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
Perform platform patching, upgrades, firmware coordination, and lifecycle management.
Perform capacity planning and utilisation analysis across CPU, memory, storage, and networking.
Monitor and analyse host and cluster performance, resource contention, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
Perform health checks, performance tuning, and configuration compliance reviews.
Troubleshoot complex issues involving virtual machines, hypervisors, clusters, storage, networking, and management platforms.
Support P2V, V2V, VMware-to-Hyper-V, and other platform migration activities.
Implement virtualisation security hardening, role-based access control, vulnerability remediation, and security patching.
Support monitoring, ITSM, and event-management platform integrations.
Participate in incident, problem, change, and capacity management processes.
Support critical infrastructure incidents and perform root-cause analysis for recurring issues.
Maintain technical documentation, configuration standards, operational procedures, runbooks, and platform inventories.

Technical Requirements

Strong hands-on experience with VMware ESXi and vSphere.
Strong experience with vCenter Server, VMware HA, DRS, vMotion, and Distributed Switches.
Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server Failover Clustering.
Experience with SCVMM, Live Migration, Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), and Hyper-V Virtual Switch.
Experience with virtual networking and virtual storage.
Knowledge of SAN/NAS technologies and storage protocols including FC, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB.
Experience with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) or similar DR technologies.
Understanding of DR orchestration solutions such as Zerto.
Experience integrating virtualisation platforms with backup and recovery solutions.
Strong knowledge of High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimisation.
Experience with platform patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
Experience with virtualisation platform migrations, including P2V and V2V.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Experience producing and maintaining HLD, LLD, build documentation, and operational procedures.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
6 years of relevant experience, including at least 2 years in a similar virtualisation or infrastructure engineering role.
VMware VCP-DCV certification is preferred.
ITIL 4 Foundation is preferred.
VCAP, VCDX, or relevant Microsoft virtualisation certifications are an advantage.
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Strong technical leadership and team collaboration skills.

Key Skills

Virtualisation Engineer - VMware / Hyper-V

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