Senior Virtualisation Engineer: Legacy P2V (On-site)

DXC Technology Company; Den Helder; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DXC Technology Company is seeking a Senior Virtualisation Engineer focusing on preserving legacy Windows environments and migrating them to modern virtualization platforms. You will work on bit-accurate imaging, P2V conversions, and hypervisor optimization in a highly secure, isolated environment.

Responsibilities include strategy for imaging, migration, and recovery testing, with emphasis on Proxmox/ESXi configurations and enterprise backup.

Qualifications

• Experience imaging physical legacy machines with sector-level methods.
• Migrating Windows XP/7 to virtual machines with driver compatibility fixes.
• Hands-on Proxmox/VMware ESXi in production.
• VM tuning: CPU pinning, COM-port, time sync, I/O scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Create bit-accurate images of legacy hardware and manage unstable storage media risks.
• Perform P2V migrations of legacy OS to modern hypervisors.
• Configure and optimize VMs for legacy-specific requirements.
• Design and test backup, monitoring, and recovery procedures for critical systems.
• Document recovery steps so non-specialists can execute them.

Skills

Bit-accurate imaging

Legacy OS migration

Proxmox/ESXi proficiency

VM optimization

Backup & monitoring

Documentation of recovery

On-site readiness

Tools

ddrescue

Clonezilla

Proxmox

VMware ESXi

Job description

DXC Technology Company is seeking a Senior Virtualisation Engineer focusing on preserving legacy Windows environments and migrating them to modern virtualization platforms. You will work on bit-accurate imaging, P2V conversions, and hypervisor optimization in a highly secure, isolated environment.

Responsibilities include strategy for imaging, migration, and recovery testing, with emphasis on Proxmox/ESXi configurations and enterprise backup.