Principal VMware-to-Nutanix Migration Architect

Quantori; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantori is seeking a Senior VMware Migration Expert for a contract engagement in the United States. You will support a large enterprise client, shaping and validating migration strategy, identifying risks, and delivering practical solutions based on extensive migration experience.

The role combines deep technical expertise with architectural leadership, client-facing delivery, and an emphasis on minimizing downtime during migrations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on VMware migrations to Nutanix or similar platforms.
• Experience with enterprise-scale environment planning and risk assessment.
• Ability to articulate technical approaches to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as SME in client workshops, discovery sessions, and architecture discussions.
• Guide VMware-to-Nutanix migration strategies, tooling, and best practices.
• Review proposed migration approaches, timelines, and delivery models.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks with mitigation plans.
• Advise on workload assessment, dependency mapping, and cutover planning.
• Present technical recommendations clearly to client architects and leaders.

Skills

VMware vSphere

vCenter & ESXi

Nutanix migration

Migration strategy

Workload assessment

Client-facing

Tools

PowerCLI

PowerShell

Python

Job description

We are looking for a Senior VMware Migration Expert with proven hands‑on experience migrating enterprise environments from VMware to Nutanix or similar platforms. This is a contract/consulting opportunity, starting with an initial 4–8 week strategic engagement, with the potential to extend into the delivery phase and longer‑term technical leadership. You’ll support a large US enterprise client in shaping and validating the migration strategy, identifying risks, and recommending practical solutions based on real‑world migration experience. This is a high‑impact, client‑facing role combining deep technical expertise, architecture, and strategic consulting.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a technical SME during client workshops, discovery sessions, and architecture discussions
• Provide expert guidance on VMware-to-Nutanix migration strategies, architecture, tooling, and best practices
• Review and validate proposed migration approaches, assumptions, timelines, and delivery models
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, potential bottlenecks, and mitigation strategies
• Advise on workload assessment, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, cutover, and post-migration validation
• Recommend approaches for minimizing downtime and operational risk during migration
• Evaluate migration tooling and opportunities for automation and high-volume migration
• Contribute to effort estimation, delivery planning, and migration team design
• Present and explain technical recommendations clearly to client architects, infrastructure leaders, and other stakeholders
• Share practical experience and lessons learned from previous enterprise migration projects

What we expect:

• Extensive hands‑on experience with VMware vSphere environments, including vCenter and ESXi
• Strong understanding of VMware infrastructure, networking, storage, and enterprise virtualization operations
• Proven hands‑on experience with VMware migrations, ideally VMware-to-Nutanix
• Strong knowledge of Nutanix or comparable VMware‑alternative platforms and their migration approaches
• Experience with workload assessment, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, cutover orchestration, and post-migration validation
• Ability to identify real‑world migration risks and recommend practical solutions based on previous experience
• Experience designing, implementing, or reviewing migration strategies for enterprise‑scale environments
• Ability to discuss specific migration projects you have personally worked on, including your role, scale, approach, challenges, and lessons learned
• Strong client‑facing and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex infrastructure topics clearly and confidently
• Comfortable working with ambiguous requirements and helping turn them into a realistic technical and delivery approach

Nice to have:

• Deep hands‑on experience with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), AHV, Prism Central, AOS, and Nutanix Move
• Experience with large‑scale migrations involving 2,000+ VMs
• Experience designing or operating a migration factory or other high‑volume migration model
• Previous experience with Nutanix Professional Services, VMware Professional Services, or a similar infrastructure consulting organization
• Nutanix and/or VMware certifications
• Experience automating migration activities using PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, or infrastructure automation frameworks
• Experience leading migration architecture workstreams or providing technical oversight to migration engineering teams