Nutanix Solutions Architect — Enterprise Migration Lead

MetroSys; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

MetroSys is seeking a Senior Nutanix Solutions Architect to lead the architecture, planning, and execution of a large-scale enterprise migration to Nutanix. This hands-on, client-facing role requires deep Nutanix expertise and the ability to translate business and technical requirements into scalable designs while guiding engineering and migration teams.

The successful candidate will design target environments using AOS, AHV, Prism Central, and related technologies, develop migration strategies,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure, virtualization, or data center architecture experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical architecture, planning, and design of a large-scale enterprise migration to Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure.
• Assess existing virtualization, compute, storage, networking, application dependencies, and infrastructure configurations to establish migration requirements.
• Design scalable, resilient Nutanix environments utilizing AOS, AHV, Prism Central, and supporting technologies.
• Develop the overall migration strategy, including workload assessment, migration sequencing, dependency mapping, cutover planning, rollback procedures, and risk mitigation.
• Architect migration solutions for workloads transitioning from VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper‑V, or other virtualization environments.
• Define Nutanix cluster architecture, capacity requirements, resource allocation, storage configurations, network integration, and high‑availability standards.
• Establish technical standards, architectural documentation, migration methodologies, and implementation best practices.
• Provide technical leadership to Nutanix Engineers and infrastructure teams throughout deployment, migration, testing, and production cutover activities.
• Evaluate migration tooling, including Nutanix Move, and determine appropriate migration approaches based on application requirements and infrastructure dependencies.
• Architect backup, disaster recovery, replication, and business continuity solutions within the Nutanix environment.
• Identify architectural risks, performance bottlenecks, compatibility challenges, and potential migration issues before implementation.
• Lead technical design reviews, architecture workshops, and migration readiness discussions with client stakeholders.
• Serve as the senior escalation resource for complex migration, virtualization, storage, and infrastructure issues.
• Collaborate with application owners, network architects, security teams, and infrastructure leadership to ensure successful platform integration.
• Oversee post‑migration validation, performance optimization, environment stabilization, and transition into ongoing operations.
• Deliver architecture diagrams, technical design documents, migration roadmaps, implementation standards, and knowledge transfer materials.

Skills

Nutanix HCI

AHV Prism Central

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V

Migration planning

Enterprise architecture

Client-facing

Tools

Nutanix Move

Job description

MetroSys is seeking a Senior Nutanix Solutions Architect to lead the architecture, planning, and execution of a large-scale enterprise migration to Nutanix. This hands-on, client-facing role requires deep Nutanix expertise and the ability to translate business and technical requirements into scalable designs while guiding engineering and migration teams.

The successful candidate will design target environments using AOS, AHV, Prism Central, and related technologies, develop migration strategies,