Infrastructure Engineer /Architect— Hyper-V Virtualization

Delta System & Software, Inc.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Delta System & Software, Inc. is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer focused on Hyper-V architectures and automation. The role involves designing cluster layouts, performing live migrations, and evaluating hardware for Hyper-V performance.

You will develop automation pipelines, maintain a C#/.NET 8 platform, and collaborate with hardware teams and vendors to steer Hyper‑V initiatives. Strong scripting and enterprise-scale experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on infrastructure engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Hyper-V at enterprise scale.
• Proficient in PowerShell scripting for automation and orchestration.
• Experience auditing performance across the full stack and maintaining architecture artifacts.
• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Hyper-V cluster architectures and live migration.
• Develop automation for virtual infrastructure lifecycle management using PowerShell and DSC.
• Maintain and extend the .NET-based workload management platform (C# / .NET 8).
• Provide technical guidance and peer reviews for automation scripts and documentation.
• Collaborate with hardware engineering and vendor partners on Hyper‑V roadmap alignment.
• Support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation tooling.

Job description

• Design and maintain Hyper-V cluster architectures including failover clustering, live migration, storage configuration, and network topology across global data center pools.
• Evaluate hardware BOMs proposed by hardware engineering for Hyper-V performance characteristics — processor/memory ratios, storage throughput, network bandwidth, and overcommit suitability — and provide technical feedback to inform procurement decisions.
• Audit performance of complex virtual infrastructure across the full stack — compute, storage, networking, and hypervisor layers — and maintain architecture artifacts (high-level design documents, decision records, diagrams) using firmwide tooling.
• Develop and document reference architectures and best practices for Hyper-V cluster deployment, storage configuration, and workload placement.

Coding

• Create and maintain automation for virtual infrastructure lifecycle management — provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance enforcement, and decommissioning of Hyper‑V workloads — using PowerShell, WMI, and the team's .NET-based workload management platform.
• Write PowerShell scripts for host configuration management, inventory collection, cluster operations, and firmware deployment across the Hyper‑V fleet.
• Maintain and extend the existing C# / .NET 8 workload management platform as needed — including the server-side orchestration API, distributed worker engine, and Windows client agent components.
• Provide stewardship to other engineers in support of quality delivery — peer reviewing automation scripts, infrastructure designs, and technical documentation.
• Advocate for and implement infrastructure automation, identifying opportunities to automate, combine, or simplify operational processes with a focus on scalability versus resource use.
• Develop and maintain automation for Hyper‑V host configuration, cluster provisioning, rolling upgrades, and compliance enforcement using PowerShell DSC, scripts, and the team's workload management platform.
• Support and evolve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation tooling, including multi-environment deployment and automated testing.

Distributed Systems Design & Development

• Plan and execute Hyper‑V cluster upgrades, Windows Server rolling upgrades, and hypervisor patch rollouts across production environments with zero or minimal downtime.
• Troubleshoot production issues across the virtual infrastructure stack — hypervisor, clustering, storage, and networking layers — using structured logging, event tracing, performance counters, and vendor diagnostic tools.
• Consider all risks, potential environmental impacts, and FinOps implications when designing and implementing infrastructure changes.

Data Fluency

• Identify appropriate data sources and apply appropriate methodologies when making data-based recommendations for capacity planning, performance optimization, and hardware procurement decisions.
• Conduct storage and compute performance benchmarking using industry and internal tooling (e.g., elbencho, VMFleet, diskspd) to validate hardware configurations and inform deployment decisions.
• Deliver against defined SLOs and SLAs; track and reduce events leading to errors or risks.

Cross-Functional

• Collaborate with hardware engineering on server platform evaluation, providing Hyper‑V-specific performance requirements and validation feedback.
• Collaborate with vendor partners (Microsoft) on Hyper‑V roadmap alignment, feature adoption, and escalation support.
• Collaborate effectively across infrastructure engineering, operations, security, and capacity planning teams.
• Leverage AI-assisted tooling for research, prototyping, and automation development to accelerate engineering cycles.
• Contribute to team and organizational goals.
• Champion the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering with demonstrated depth and breadth of knowledge across multiple domains (virtualization, storage, networking, Windows Server administration).
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Hyper‑V at enterprise scale: failover clustering, live migration, storage spaces / S2D, virtual networking (Hyper‑V virtual switch, SET), and Windows Server administration.
• Strong proficiency in PowerShell scripting for infrastructure automation, host configuration management, WMI-based inventory collection, and operational tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to audit performance of complex infrastructure architecture across the full stack and to maintain architecture artifacts (design documents, decision records, diagrams).
• Experience with storage performance analysis and optimization in virtualized environments — benchmarking, capacity planning, and storage policy design.
• Ability to evaluate hardware BOMs for Hyper‑V suitability — assessing processor/memory ratios, storage I/O characteristics, network throughput, and overcommit profiles.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools (DSC, SCCM, Ansible, or equivalent) at data center scale.
• Experience advocating for and implementing infrastructure automation — CI/CD pipelines, operational process improvement, and configuration-as-code — with a focus on scalability versus resource use.
• Track record of providing stewardship to other engineers through technical guidance, design review, and documentation.
• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.