Virtualization Architect

Zohorecruit; Qatar; On-site; QAR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Black & Grey HR is recruiting for an established technology solutions and services provider in Doha, Qatar. We seek an experienced Virtualization Architect to design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade virtualization platforms with a strong Nutanix focus.

The role covers hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, disaster recovery, and centralized infrastructure management. You will lead Nutanix AHV/AOS deployments, optimize cluster performance, ensure security controls, and collaborate with

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of experience in enterprise virtualization or related infrastructure.
• Proven Nutanix platform design, deployment, and operation in production.
• Strong experience with Nutanix AHV, AOS, Prism Central and lifecycle management.
• Experience with active-active data centers and metro-cluster environments.
• Solid understanding of hyperconverged infrastructure, hybrid virtualization, and multi-cloud environments.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, business continuity, high availability, replication, and DR orchestration.
• Experience with SDN, virtualization networking, and cloud security controls.
• Experience with centralized monitoring, automation, and capacity planning.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex multi-layer infrastructure and virtualization issues.
• Strong documentation, communication, and leadership skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in related discipline and relevant Nutanix certifications.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise virtualization architecture standards with Nutanix focus.
• Lead Nutanix platform deployment, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Design resilient virtualization architectures for critical workloads and applications.
• Design hybrid/multi-cloud virtualization environments and ensure seamless cloud integration.
• Develop DR and BC architectures with tested failover procedures.
• Implement SDN, micro-segmentation, and zero-trust security within virtualized env.
• Create centralized management and automation platforms for visibility and control.
• Drive operations excellence through capacity planning, performance optimization, and dashboards.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration across infrastructure, networking, storage, security, and app teams.

Skills

Nutanix AHV

Nutanix AOS

Nutanix Prism Central

HCI architecture

Active-active data centers

Disaster Recovery

SDN & virtualization networking

Zero-trust security

Hybrid & multi-cloud

Automation & monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP)

Nutanix Certified Master (NCM)

Nutanix AHV/AOS certifications

Cloud/Networking certifications

Tools

Nutanix cluster architecture

Job description

Black & Grey HR is recruiting for an established technology solutions and services provider in Doha, Qatar. Our client is seeking an experienced Virtualization Architect to design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade virtualization platforms, with a strong focus on Nutanix technologies. The role will be responsible for building highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient virtualization environments across hybrid and multi-cloud platforms, including active active datacenter architectures, software-defined networking, disaster recovery, and centralized infrastructure management.

Key Responsibilities

Virtualization Architecture & Design

• Design and maintain enterprise virtualization architecture standards, with a primary focus on Nutanix platforms.
• Define architecture blueprints covering compute, storage, virtualization, and software defined networking components.
• Ensure virtualization designs meet requirements for scalability, performance, security, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in architecture reviews and ensure solutions align with enterprise technology standards.
• Design resilient virtualization architectures supporting business-critical workloads and enterprise applications.

Nutanix Platform Leadership

• Lead the design, deployment, and operation of Nutanix AHV, AOS, Prism Central, and related platforms.
• Provide hands‑on expertise in Nutanix cluster architecture, configuration, lifecycle management, upgrades, and optimization.
• Ensure optimal performance, capacity utilization, availability, and resilience of Nutanix infrastructure.
• Establish and maintain standards for Nutanix platform deployment and operations.
• Troubleshoot complex Nutanix infrastructure and virtualization issues.

Hybrid & Multi-CloudVirtualization

• Design and support hybrid and multi-cloud virtualization environments.
• Integrate on‑premises virtualization platforms with public cloud services where required.
• Support cloud‑adjacent and cloud‑integrated workloads across enterprise environments.
• Ensure seamless integration between on‑premises virtualization infrastructure and cloud platforms.
• Contribute to cloud transformation and virtualization modernization initiatives.

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

• Design and operate highly available virtualization platforms, including active-active data center architectures and metro-cluster environments.
• Design and implement synchronous and asynchronous replication strategies for business‑critical workloads.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity architectures.
• Plan, execute, and document DR tests, failover scenarios, and recovery procedures.
• Ensure infrastructure meets defined availability, recovery, and resilience requirements.

Software-Defined Networking & Security

• Design and operate software‑defined networking solutions within virtualized and Nutanix environments.
• Implement secure network segmentation, traffic management, and network resiliency.
• Apply micro‑segmentation, zero‑trust, and defense‑in‑depth security principles.
• Collaborate with network and security teams to ensure secure and resilient virtualization environments.
• Troubleshoot complex virtualization networking and connectivity issues.

Centralized Infrastructure Management & Automation

• Implement and maintain centralized management, monitoring, and automation platforms.
• Provide unified visibility across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and disaster recovery layers.
• Develop operational dashboards, alerts, and infrastructure performance KPIs.
• Contribute to automation initiatives that improve infrastructure efficiency and operational consistency.

Operations, Monitoring & Optimization

• Ensure the stability, availability, reliability, and performance of enterprise virtualization platforms.
• Conduct capacity planning, performance analysis, resource optimization, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Monitor infrastructure health and proactively identify performance and capacity risks.
• Lead root cause analysis for complex infrastructure incidents.
• Drive continuous service improvement and operational optimization.

Project Delivery & Technical Leadership

• Lead virtualization initiatives end-to-end, including new platform deployments, upgrades, migrations, consolidations, and technology refreshes.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to infrastructure engineers during implementation and operations.
• Develop standard operating procedures, technical documentation, architecture standards, and operational guidelines
• Coordinate technical activities across infrastructure, network, storage, security, and application teams.
• Support vendors and technology partners during implementation, troubleshooting, and support engagements.

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with network, storage, security, database, application, and cloud teams to deliver integrated infrastructure solutions.
• Translate complex technical requirements into practical architecture and implementation solutions.
• Present technical designs, risks, dependencies, and operational considerations to technical and business stakeholders.
• Act as a technical point of contact for virtualization architecture, infrastructure projects, and platform-related initiatives.

Requirements

Requirements:

• 8–10 years of experience in enterprise virtualization, infrastructure, or related technology environments.
• Strong hands‑on experience designing, deploying, and operating Nutanix platforms in production environments.
• Proven experience with Nutanix AHV, AOS, Prism Central, and Nutanix lifecycle management.
• Strong experience designing and operating active-active data center architectures and metro-cluster environments.
• Solid experience with hyperconverged infrastructure, hybrid virtualization, and multi-cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of disaster recovery, business continuity, high availability, replication, and DR orchestration.
• Hands‑on experience with software‑defined networking, virtualization networking, and infrastructure security.
• Strong understanding of micro‑segmentation, network resiliency, and security controls within virtualized environments.
• Experience with centralized infrastructure monitoring, management, automation, and capacity planning.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-layer infrastructure and virtualization issues.
• Strong understanding of enterprise compute, storage, networking, and virtualization architecture.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Strong documentation, communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Required Technology Skills

• Nutanix AHV and AOS
• Nutanix Prism Central
• Nutanix cluster architecture and lifecycle management
• Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)
• Enterprise virtualization architecture
• Active-active data centers and metro clusters
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
• Synchronous and asynchronous replication
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
• Virtualization networking and micro‑segmentation
• Infrastructure monitoring and centralized management
• Capacity planning and performance optimization
• Infrastructure automation and operational tooling
• Hybrid and multi-cloud virtualization environments
• Enterprise infrastructure security and zero-trust principles

Certifications

• Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP)
• Nutanix Certified Master (NCM)
• Relevant Nutanix AHV/AOS certifications or credentials
• Software-Defined Networking / Networking certifications
• Cloud infrastructure or cloud foundation certifications
• Other relevant virtualization, infrastructure, networking, or cloud certifications

Preferred Experience

• Experience designing and operatingactive‑active or metro-cluster data center environments.
• Experience with large‑scale Nutanix deployments in enterprise production environments.
• Experience implementing synchronous and asynchronous replication and DR orchestration.
• Experience with software‑defined networking and micro‑segmentation within Nutanix or other virtualized environments.
• Experience integrating on‑premises virtualization platforms with public cloud services.
• Experience with centralized infrastructure management, monitoring, automation, and operational dashboards.
• Experience leading virtualization migrations, consolidations, upgrades, and infrastructure transformation projects.
• Experience working across infrastructure, networking, storage, security, database, and application teams.
• Experience in highly available and business-critical enterprise environments.