Senior Hyper-V & Windows Infrastructure Engineer

Hitachi Vantara; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara is seeking a Senior Hyper-V & Windows Infrastructure Engineer to manage enterprise virtualization and Windows Server environments. You will oversee Hyper-V administration, patching, security hardening, and disaster recovery readiness to ensure high availability and reliability.

The role requires 8–10 years of infrastructure experience, strong technical leadership, and a dedication to operational excellence and customer satisfaction. Hyderabad-based on-site role with global impact.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of enterprise infrastructure experience with Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Strong leadership and customer-focused service delivery.
• Experience in patching, hardening, and disaster recovery readiness.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain highly available Hyper-V hosts and clusters.
• Administer Windows Server environments: installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
• Manage core Windows services including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and group policy.
• Plan and execute OS and infrastructure patching with minimal disruption.
• Lead incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for virtualization issues.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, automation scripts, and change communications.

Skills

Hyper-V administration

Windows Server administration

Incident troubleshooting

Disaster recovery

Security hardening

Patch management

Documentation

Team leadership

Performance tuning

Capacity planning

Tools

Hyper-V

Windows Server

Active Directory

DNS

DHCP

Job description

Our Company

We're Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world's innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers - from banks to theme parks - can focus on achieving the incredible with data. If you've seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you've seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate - and wow their customers. Right now, we're laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We're looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team - and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Location: Hyderabad, India

Function: (DEAI HV) IT

Requisition ID: R0149052

Our Company

We're Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world's innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers - from banks to theme parks - can focus on achieving the incredible with data. If you've seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you've seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate - and wow their customers. Right now, we're laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We're looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team - and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

The role

We are seeking a Senior Hyper-V & Windows Infrastructure Engineer to manage enterprise virtualization and Windows Server environments. This role is responsible for Hyper-V administration, platform availability, patching, security hardening, vulnerability remediation, incident resolution, and disaster-recovery readiness. The ideal candidate brings 8-10 years of infrastructure experience, strong technical leadership, and a commitment to operational excellence and customer satisfaction.

What you'll Bring

• 8-10 years of experience administering enterprise infrastructure, including extensive hands-on expertise with Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain highly available Hyper-V hosts, clusters, virtual machines, virtual switches, storage integrations and WAC-Vmode.
• Administer Windows Server environments, including installation, configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and lifecycle management.
• Manage core Windows services such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Failover Clustering, and related infrastructure components.
• Plan, test, schedule, and execute operating system and infrastructure patching while minimizing service disruption and maintaining compliance.
• Review vulnerability findings, prioritize remediation by risk and business impact, implement fixes, and provide evidence of closure.
• Perform security hardening in accordance with organizational standards, vendor guidance, and applicable security benchmarks.
• Monitor platform health, capacity, availability, backups, and disaster recovery readiness; proactively resolve operational risks.
• Lead incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex virtualization and Windows Server issues, documenting corrective and preventive actions.Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, automation scripts, and stakeholder communications for infrastructure changes and service health.
• Act as a coach to build the team and its members
• Strive for quality and customer satisfaction in the projects assigned

About Us

We're a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How We Look After You

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.