Remote Nutanix Engineer - Multi-DC Migrations & DR

IT Associates; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

IT Associates is seeking a Nutanix Engineer to lead design, deployment, and configuration of Nutanix clusters across two data centers for a strategic migration and DR program. The role emphasizes delivering complex migration projects within a managed services or enterprise environment.

The candidate should have deep Nutanix expertise, strong data center infrastructure experience, and experience coordinating migrations with multiple stakeholders, including client teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on Nutanix experience in enterprise or managed service environments.
• Deep expertise in AOS, AHV, Prism Element, and Prism Central.
• Strong documentation skills — LLD, runbooks, as-built, and DR test reports.
• Experience operating within ITIL-based change management frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Architect, configure, and deploy multiple Nutanix clusters across 2 data centers, following Nutanix and industry best practices.
• Perform Foundation imaging (AOS + AHV) and cluster creation with Prism Element configuration.
• Configure AOS, AHV, and Prism Central across both sites.
• Define and implement cluster networking including VLANs, bonding, uplinks, and virtual switches.
• Establish storage policies, containers, data tiering, compression, deduplication, and erasure coding configurations.
• Validate cluster health, performance baselines, and redundancy across all nodes.
• Assess existing client environments and develop migration runbooks.
• Utilize native Nutanix replication to migrate VMs with minimal downtime.
• Coordinate migration windows with client stakeholders and teams.
• Plan and execute pre-cutover test failovers for VMs in isolated network.
• Validate post-migration workload performance and connectivity.
• Document pre- and post-migration states including VM inventories and mappings.
• Resolve complex issues across compute/storage, networking, and virtualization layers.

Skills

Nutanix Core

AOS

AHV

Prism Element

Prism Central

Nutanix workload migration

DR planning

Data center networking

Project management

ITIL change management

Tools

Prism Central Flow

Commvault

Job description

IT Associates is seeking a Nutanix Engineer to lead design, deployment, and configuration of Nutanix clusters across two data centers for a strategic migration and DR program. The role emphasizes delivering complex migration projects within a managed services or enterprise environment.

The candidate should have deep Nutanix expertise, strong data center infrastructure experience, and experience coordinating migrations with multiple stakeholders, including client teams.