Senior Virtualization Engineer: Enterprise Migrations

TENTACLE SSO SDN BHD; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training opportunities

Career progression

Collaborative team environment

Mentorship

Job summary

Tentacle SSO SDN BHD is seeking a Virtualization Engineer to design, provision, migrate and hand over enterprise virtualization platforms. This onsite contract role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, disruption-free migrations in production-critical environments.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of hands-on virtualization experience, strong VMware expertise, and familiarity with migration lifecycles, security hardening and runbook creation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on virtualization engineering experience.
• Strong VMware platforms expertise and migration lifecycle knowledge.
• Experience across discovery, assessment, cutover, stabilization and handover.
• Proficient in Windows/Linux, SAN/NAS, backups, DNS, firewalls, load balancers.
• Ability to produce runbooks, rollback plans and audit evidence.
• Regulatory or financial services exposure is a plus.
• Preferred: VCP or ITIL Foundation, or related certs (Microsoft, Linux, Azure, AWS).

Responsibilities

• Assess virtualization platforms, hosts, clusters, VMs, dependencies and readiness.
• Prepare runbooks, cutover plans, validation checklists and rollback procedures.
• Provision and configure virtualization platforms per architecture and security standards.
• Support migrations using VMware HCX, Zerto, Azure Migrate, Ansible and Python.
• Participate in migration rehearsals, go/no-go reviews, and hypercare.
• Troubleshoot virtualization, compute, storage, network and performance issues.
• Deliver knowledge transfer and handover to operations teams.

Skills

Hands-on virtualization

VMware platforms

Migration lifecycle

Windows/Linux knowledge

Runbooks & rollback plans

Stakeholder coordination

Security hardening

VCP/ITIL or cloud certs

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Computing

Tools

VMware HCX

Zerto

Azure Migrate

Ansible

Python

Job description

Tentacle SSO SDN BHD is seeking a Virtualization Engineer to design, provision, migrate and hand over enterprise virtualization platforms. This onsite contract role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, disruption-free migrations in production-critical environments.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of hands-on virtualization experience, strong VMware expertise, and familiarity with migration lifecycles, security hardening and runbook creation.