Senior Hyper-V & Windows Infrastructure Engineer

Hitachi Vantara; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara in Hyderabad, India, is seeking a Senior Hyper-V Windows Infrastructure Engineer to manage enterprise virtualization and Windows Server environments. You will lead Hyper-V administration, ensure platform availability, patching, security hardening, and disaster-recovery readiness, with 8–10 years of infrastructure experience.

You will design, deploy, and maintain Hyper-V hosts, clusters, VMs, switches, and storage integrations; manage AD, DNS, DHCP, GPO; and drive incident

Qualifications

• 8-10 years delivering enterprise infrastructure with Hyper-V.
• Expert in Hyper-V design, deployment, and management.
• Strong Windows Server lifecycle, patching, and performance tuning.
• Experience with security hardening and vulnerability remediation.
• Proven ability to lead teams and drive operational excellence.
• Excellent documentation and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Hyper-V hosts and clusters.
• Manage Windows Server environments including AD, DNS, DHCP, GPO.
• Plan and execute OS and patching with minimal disruption.
• Lead incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Monitor health, backups, DR readiness, and capacity.
• Develop technical docs, SOPs, and automation scripts.
• Coach and develop team members.
• Ensure customer satisfaction on projects.

Skills

Hyper-V administration

Windows Server

Incident resolution

Security hardening

Disaster recovery preparedness

Technical leadership

Tools

Hyper-V

Active Directory

Failover Clustering

Storage integration

Job description

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

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