Nutanix Automation Engineer

BlackCube Labs; India; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

BlackCube Labs in India seeks a seasoned Nutanix Migration Engineer to lead VMware-to-Nutanix transitions across the full lifecycle, including assessment, design, Move 6.0 execution, cutover, validation, and post-migration stabilization. You will operate hands-on in production, with evening/weekend cutovers to meet project SLAs.

The role requires 10+ years of virtualization experience, Nutanix Move 6.0 expertise, and healthcare/regulatory exposure.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise virtualization or infrastructure engineering with Nutanix in production.
• Experience in at least one VMware-to-Nutanix migration and ability to describe scale, tooling, and resolutions.
• Healthcare or regulated production environment experience with change control and PHI/PII handling.
• Ability to support scheduled evening and weekend cutover windows.
• Documentation discipline: record all configurations, deviations and workarounds.
• Clear written and verbal English communication suitable for client status reports.

Responsibilities

• Assess and design migrations, size capacity, and document per-wave approaches with rollback plans.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain Nutanix Move 6.0; register source/target environments and map networks.
• Build and execute migration plans with data replication, cutover coordination, and validation.
• Troubleshoot migration failures across the stack and coordinate stakeholder sign-off.
• Produce post-migration optimization and maintain as-built documentation and runbooks.

Skills

English communication

Documentation discipline

Problem solving

Education

NCP-MCI certification

NCM-MCI certification

VCP-DCV certification

Microsoft/Red Hat OS certification

Tools

Nutanix Move 6.0

vCenter / ESXi admin

PowerShell

Python

Job description

The Nutanix Migration Engineer is the technical executor of the VMware-to-Nutanix transition. The role spans the full migration lifecycle — assessment and sizing, migration design, Nutanix Move 6.0 execution, cutover, validation, troubleshooting, and post‑migration stabilization. This is a delivery‑focused engineering role: the expectation is independent, hands‑on execution inside a production healthcare environment where failed cutovers and extended outages are not recoverable events. The engineer must be equally comfortable on the VMware source side and the Nutanix target side, because the majority of migration failures originate in the source estate rather than the destination. Scheduled evening and weekend cutover windows required

Key Responsibilities

Assessment and Migration Design

• Perform discovery of the source VMware estate using Nutanix Collector, RVTools, and native vCenter reporting — capturing VM inventory, resource consumption, disk layout, snapshots, VMware Tools state, guest OS versions, and network configuration.
• Analyze workload characteristics to identify migration blockers before scheduling: unsupported guest operating systems, RDMs, shared VMDKs, oversized disks, encrypted VMs, VMs with attached ISOs, static IP dependencies, application clustering, and licensing anchored to hardware identifiers.
• Support target sizing and capacity planning using Nutanix Sizer — validating CPU, memory, storage, and node count against actual measured consumption rather than allocated values.
• Group workloads into migration waves by application dependency, business criticality, downtime tolerance, and owner availability; document per-wave migration approach and rollback plan.
• Produce the migration design and cutover runbook for each wave: pre-checks, sequence, validation steps, back‑out procedure, and named approvers.

Migration Execution with Nutanix Move

• Deploy, configure, and maintain Nutanix Move 6.0 — appliance sizing, source and target environment registration, credential and permission configuration, and network mapping between source port groups and AHV virtual networks.
• Build and execute migration plans: seed data replication, monitor replication progress and lag, manage bandwidth and concurrency limits, and coordinate cutover timing with application owners.
• Manage guest preparation — VirtIO driver injection for Windows guests, Linux guest readiness, VMware Tools removal, and IP retention or reassignment per the network design.
• Execute cutovers within approved change windows, including final delta sync, source VM shutdown, target power‑on, and confirmation of guest boot, network reachability, and service startup.
• Handle migration exceptions where Move is not the right tool — in‑guest methods, backup‑and‑restore migration via the client's backup platform, database‑native replication, or rebuild‑and‑reinstall for legacy or unsupported workloads.

Validation, Troubleshooting, and Post‑Migration Support

• Execute post‑migration validation: guest OS health, VirtIO device and driver state, disk presence and capacity, network and DNS resolution, application service startup, backup job re‑registration, and monitoring agent check‑in.
• Troubleshoot migration failures across the stack — Move appliance and agent errors, CBT and snapshot issues, vCenter permission and API failures, source datastore performance limits, boot failures on AHV (UEFI/BIOS mismatch, missing drivers, disk controller changes), and post‑cutover network isolation.
• Coordinate application owner validation and formal acceptance sign‑off for each migrated workload; drive open defects to closure within the agreed hyper‑care window.
• Perform post‑migration optimization: right‑sizing CPU and memory, storage container and compression/dedupe policy alignment, VM affinity rules, and protection policy or replication configuration on the target.
• Decommission source objects only after acceptance and retention criteria are met, following the agreed decommissioning checklist.
• Maintain as‑built documentation, migration logs, exception records, and lessons learned; contribute reusable runbook content back to the Stefanini Nutanix practice.

Qualifications and Certifications

• 10+ years in enterprise virtualization or infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years hands‑on with Nutanix in production.
• Demonstrable participation in at least one completed enterprise VMware‑to‑Nutanix migration — candidates must be able to describe scale, tooling, failure modes encountered, and how they were resolved.
• Required certification: Nutanix Certified Professional – Multicloud Infrastructure (NCP‑MCI), current version.
• Preferred: Nutanix Certified Master – Multicloud Infrastructure (NCM‑MCI), VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP‑DCV), Microsoft or Red Hat OS‑level certification.
• Experience in a healthcare or other regulated production environment, working within formal change control and maintenance windows and PHI/PII handling, auditability, and evidence capture.
• Ability to support scheduled evening and weekend cutover windows required
• Documentation discipline — every configuration decision, deviation, and workaround is recorded in the agreed repository. Undocumented work is treated as incomplete.
• Clear written and verbal English communication; capable of producing runbooks, status updates, and incident write‑ups that a client stakeholder can read without translation.

Required Technical Skills

Nutanix platform: AOS, AHV, Prism Element and Prism Central, storage containers, protection domains/policies, Nutanix Move 6.0 (required), Nutanix Files/Volumes exposure

VMware source estate: vSphere/ESXi and vCenter administration, VM configuration, port groups and vSwitch/DVS, snapshots, CBT behavior, VMware Tools

Guest operating systems: Windows Server (2012 R2 through 2022) and enterprise Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) — boot troubleshooting, drivers, disk and network configuration

Networking: VLANs, IP addressing and retention, DNS, routing basics, firewall rule dependencies for migrated workloads

Backup and DR: Re‑protecting migrated workloads — Veeam, Commvault, HYCU, Rubrik, or Nutanix-native replication and Leap

Scripting (working level): PowerShell or Python for pre/post‑migration checks, bulk validation, and reporting