Sify - Lead Cloud/Virtualization Engineer

Exp range : 10 - 20 yrs

Max Budget : Confidential

Location : Chennai

We are currently hiring for a Cloud / Virtualization Engineer role and are looking for professionals with strong hands-on experience in virtualization infrastructure, open-source hypervisors, cloud infrastructure, automation, and infrastructure architecture.

Key Responsibilities :

• Architect scalable and secure virtualization solutions using open-source hypervisors.
• Design and implement High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and resource-efficient infrastructure solutions.
• Evaluate and integrate suitable orchestration and virtualization management platforms.
• Lead deployment of virtualized compute, storage, and network stacks.
• Standardize and automate infrastructure configuration using Ansible, Terraform, or custom scripts.
• Maintain golden images and VM templates for rapid provisioning.
• Benchmark virtualization hosts and perform hypervisor performance tuning.
• Analyze workloads and optimize VM placement, NUMA affinity, and overcommitment strategies.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting based on business and infrastructure growth requirements.
• Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks, system crashes, and resource contention.
• Lead RCA for major virtualization infrastructure incidents.
• Harden hypervisors and implement tenant isolation using security frameworks such as SELinux and AppArmor.
• Ensure secure VM images, patching, vulnerability remediation, audit trails, and compliance requirements.
• Integrate virtualization management with DevOps pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Automate VM lifecycle operations including provisioning, snapshots, migration, and decommissioning through APIs/CLI tools.
• Work closely with Development and Platform teams on infrastructure automation and IaC.
• Provide architecture enhancement recommendations considering performance, scalability, security, and TCO.
• Validate infrastructure upgrade requirements and determine the need for new architecture/devices based on performance and capacity requirements.
• Participate in partner meetings, technology workshops, POCs, and architecture evaluations.
• Develop test cases/use cases for POCs and prepare technical evaluation reports.
• Provide expert-level support to Operations and Delivery teams for technical issues and escalations.

Joining Preference : Immediate joiners to candidates with a maximum notice period of 30 to 45 days.