Senior Infrastructure Engineer Hyper-V Virtualization & Infrastructure Engineering

Keen Technology Solutions LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Keen Technology Solutions LLC seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer specialized in Hyper-V virtualization to design, deploy, and manage enterprise Hyper‑V clusters across global data centers.

You will automate lifecycle management with PowerShell and .NET, optimize storage and networking, and align with hardware engineering and Microsoft on roadmap and upgrades. Local candidates only (Houston area welcome).

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on infrastructure engineering with virtualization, storage, networking, and Windows Server administration.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Hyper-V at enterprise scale.
• Proficient in PowerShell scripting for automation.
• Ability to audit performance across the full stack and maintain architecture artifacts.
• Ability to evaluate hardware BOMs for Hyper-V suitability.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven guidance and mentorship to other engineers.
• Degree in CS/CE/IS or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Hyper‑V cluster architectures including failover clustering, live migration, storage configuration, and network topology across global data center pools.
• Develop automation for virtual infrastructure lifecycle management using PowerShell and the team’s platform.
• Support and evolve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure tooling and automated testing.
• Plan and execute Hyper‑V cluster upgrades and Windows Server rolling upgrades with minimal downtime.
• Identify data sources and apply methodologies for capacity planning and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with hardware engineering and Microsoft on roadmap alignment and escalation support.

Skills

Hyper-V

PowerShell

Windows Server

S2D / Storage Spaces Direct

WSFC

DSC

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

C# / .NET

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

SCCM

Ansible

Job description

Job Title: Senior Infrastructure Engineer Hyper-V Virtualization & Infrastructure Engineering Location: Jersey City, Houston, San Francisco (Need Local Candidates only)

We\'re looking for a talented, senior engineering professional ready to take their career to new heights at one of the world\'s most influential companies.

Job Responsibilities

1. Architecture & Systems Design


2. Coding


3. Automation & Continuous Delivery


4. Distributed Systems Design & Development


5. Data Fluency


6. Cross-Functional

Architecture & Systems Design

• 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.

Automation & Continuous Delivery

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience with Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) and Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) at enterprise scale.


• Experience with additional hypervisors (VMware ESXi, KVM, etc.) production experience with dual‑hypervisor environments are a plus.


• Familiarity with server hardware architecture (Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, NVMe storage, GPU accelerators) sufficient to evaluate hardware proposals for Hyper‑V workload suitability.


• Experience with network fabric integration in virtualized environments VLAN, SDN, load balancing, and network adapter teaming.


• Working knowledge of C# / .NET for maintaining and extending infrastructure automation platforms.


• Experience with Microsoft System Center (VMM, SCOM, SCCM) at enterprise scale.


• Experience with security compliance remediation Qualys vulnerability management, break management, and security baseline enforcement.


• Experience with performance testing frameworks (elbencho, VMFleet, diskspd, fio or similar) for storage and compute validation.


• Familiarity with using generative AI tools to accelerate engineering and research cycles.