Virtualization Engineer / Administrator (VMware / Nutanix)

Cloudxtreme; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudxtreme Hyderabad is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Administrator to monitor and manage virtual environments including VMware and Nutanix, with emphasis on incident response and backup validation. You will perform provisioning, access control, and routine lifecycle tasks while ensuring patching and DR readiness across on-prem and hybrid cloud.

The role requires hands-on experience with VM provisioning SOPs, ITSM logging, and familiarity with Commvault backups, SCCM and Ansible

Qualifications

• VMware Certified Professional (VCP) mandatory.
• Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) preferred.
• ITIL Certification beneficial.
• Experience with monitoring tools and ITSM logging.
• Knowledge of DR tools and backup verification.

Responsibilities

• Monitor VMs, hypervisors (VMware/Nutanix) and endpoints using monitoring tools.
• Respond to alerts, restart failed services, and log incidents in ITSM tools.
• Execute SOPs for VM provisioning failures, disk space issues, and access errors.
• Handle password resets, access provisioning, and basic VM lifecycle requests.
• Verify backups (Commvault) and patching (SCCM / Ansible).
• Configure/manage hypervisors, virtual networks, and storage across on-prem & hybrid cloud.
• VMware DH/DRS, ESXi/vCenter logs interpretation & troubleshooting.
• Disaster Recovery tools: SRM, Zerto.

Skills

VMware

Nutanix

SCCM

Ansible

Commvault

ITIL

Education

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP)

ITIL Certification

Tools

Nutanix Prism

VMware vCenter

SRM

Zerto

Commvault

SCCM

Ansible

Job description

Job Description

L1 Responsibilities

• Monitor VMs, hypervisors (VMware/Nutanix), and endpoints using monitoring tools
  
• Respond to alerts, restart failed services, and log incidents in ITSM tools
  
• Execute SOPs for VM provisioning failures, disk space issues, and access errors
  
• Handle password resets, access provisioning, and basic VM lifecycle requests
  
• Verify backups (Commvault) and patching (SCCM / Ansible)
  

L2 / L3 Responsibilities

Infrastructure Administration

• Configure/manage hypervisors, virtual networks, and storage across on-prem & hybrid cloud
  
• VMware Distributed Switch / Standard Switch configuration
  
• SAN storage & protocols: FC, iSCSI, NAS
  
• Hands-on with Nutanix HCI, Prism Central, Prism Element
  
• Disaster Recovery tools: SRM, Zerto
  
• Datacenter hardware: Cisco UCS, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Hitachi, Supermicro
  

Performance & Troubleshooting

• VM performance analysis, root cause analysis & optimization
  
• VMware HA/DRS, memory reclamation (TPS, Ballooning, Swap, Compression)
  
• ESXi / vCenter logs interpretation & troubleshooting
  
• ESXi / vCenter upgrade, migration, and maintenance
  

Certifications (Preferred / Mandatory)

• VMware Certified (Mandatory)
  
• Nutanix Certified Professional (Preferred)
  
• ITIL Certified