Hypervisor / Virtualization specialist L2–L5

NTT Limited; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a hypervisor and virtualization engineer, specialist, or architect to provide operational, engineering and architectural support for enterprise virtualisation platforms. The role ensures client environments are available, secure, resilient and capable of supporting business-critical workloads.

Depending on level, the position ranges from second-line platform support through to technical leadership and virtualization architecture.

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise virtualization platforms.
• Ability to manage host, cluster, and VM lifecycle.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and workload mobility.
• Familiarity with virtualization networking and storage integration.

Responsibilities

• Monitor health, availability and performance of virtualization platforms.
• Investigate and resolve incidents involving hosts, clusters, VMs, management platforms and services.
• Administer virtual infrastructure, including provisioning, configuration and lifecycle activities.
• Perform approved patching, upgrades and platform maintenance.
• Support capacity, availability, performance and resilience management.
• Troubleshoot integration issues across compute, storage, network, backup and disaster recovery services.
• Support migrations, platform consolidation and infrastructure-refresh activities.
• Maintain platform documentation, operating procedures and configuration records.
• Identify opportunities to automate provisioning, monitoring and operational activities.
• At senior levels, define virtualization standards, reference designs and platform roadmaps.
• At L5, provide architecture leadership for complex private-cloud and virtualization solutions.

Skills

Hypervisor platforms

VM management

High availability

Networking & storage integration

Automation & IaC

Monitoring & backup

Tools

VMware vSphere

Azure/Hyper-V

Nutanix AHV

Job description

Make an impact with NTT DATA. Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.

Your day at NTT DATA

The hypervisor and virtualisation engineer, specialist or architect provides operational, engineering and architectural support for enterprise virtualisation platforms. The role ensures that client environments remain available, secure, resilient and capable of supporting business-critical workloads. Depending on the assigned level, the position ranges from second-line platform support through to technical leadership and virtualisation architecture.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor the health, availability and performance of virtualisation platforms.
• Investigate and resolve incidents involving hosts, clusters, virtual machines, management platforms and associated services.
• Administer virtual infrastructure, including provisioning, configuration and lifecycle activities.
• Perform approved patching, upgrades and platform maintenance.
• Support capacity, availability, performance and resilience management.
• Troubleshoot integration issues across compute, storage, network, backup and disaster-recovery services.
• Support migrations, platform consolidation and infrastructure-refresh activities.
• Maintain platform documentation, operating procedures and configuration records.
• Identify opportunities to automate provisioning, monitoring and operational activities.
• At senior levels, define virtualisation standards, reference designs and platform roadmaps.
• At L5, provide architecture leadership for complex private-cloud and virtualization solutions.

Technical knowledge

• Enterprise hypervisors and virtualization platforms.
• Host, cluster and virtual-machine management.
• High availability, workload mobility and disaster recovery.
• Virtual networking and storage integration.
• Capacity and performance management.
• Automation, orchestration and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Platform monitoring, backup and recovery.

Relevant certifications

• VMware VCP or higher.
• Microsoft Azure Local or Hyper-V certification.
• Nutanix NCP.
• Vendor-specific virtualisation and data-centre certifications.

Workplace type

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organisations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centres as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

Equal Opportunity Employer

NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity.

We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment.

We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category.

Is innovation part of your DNA?

Do you want to enable a connected future for people, organisations, and society? Join our growing global NTT family and you’ll be part of the world’s largest ICT company (by revenue). We’ve combined the capabilities of 28 remarkable companies to become one, leading technology services provider. Together, we help our people, clients, and communities do great things with technology to create a more secure and connected future. We employ 40,000 people across 57 countries. By bringing together the world’s best technology companies and emerging innovators, we work together to deliver sustainable outcomes to businesses and the world. Innovation is part of our DNA. We believe it’s key to what makes us different. So, we strive to move forward, challenge the status quo, and drive excellence through the technologies we integrate and the services we deliver around the world. The result is connected cities, connected factories, connected healthcare, connected agriculture, connected conservation, connected mobility, and connected sport. Together we enable the connected future.

You’ll be joining a global employer that is committed to attracting, growing and keeping the best talent. A place where you will be at the heart of our success!