Senior Nutanix Solutions Architect

MetroSys, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

MetroSys, Inc. seeks a Senior Nutanix Solutions Architect to lead a large-scale enterprise infrastructure migration.

You will act as the primary technical authority, evaluating current infrastructure and designing the target Nutanix environment, while guiding engineering and migration teams. The role requires deep Nutanix HCI expertise, virtualization modernization, and the ability to translate business needs into scalable infrastructure designs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise infra, virtualization, or data center architecture experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing Nutanix HCI solutions.
• Expert-level knowledge of Nutanix AOS, AHV, Prism Central, Prism Element.
• Proven leadership in large-scale enterprise virtualization or migration projects.
• Deep understanding of VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V with Nutanix AHV involvement.
• Experience across compute, storage, networking, and infra integration.
• Ability to develop migration strategies for complex production environments.
• Experience with HA, DR, backup, and business continuity designs.
• Strong capacity planning, performance optimization, and scalability skills.
• Experience leading cross-discipline technical teams and migrations.
• Exceptional client-facing communication and technical documentation skills.
• Ability to balance architecture duties with hands-on oversight.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, planning, and design of large-scale migration to Nutanix HCI.
• Assess existing virtualization, compute, storage, networking, and dependencies to set requirements.
• Design scalable Nutanix environments using AOS, AHV, Prism Central, and related tech.
• Develop migration strategy, workload sequencing, cutover planning, and risk mitigation.
• Architect migrations from VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, or other environments to Nutanix AHV.
• Define Nutanix cluster architecture, capacity, resources, storage, and network integration.
• Establish standards, documentation, methodologies, and implementation best practices.
• Provide technical leadership to Nutanix engineers and infrastructure teams during deployment.
• Evaluate migration tooling (e.g., Nutanix Move) and determine approaches by requirements.
• Design backup, DR, replication, and business continuity within Nutanix environment.
• Identify risks and performance bottlenecks before implementation.
• Lead design reviews, workshops, and readiness discussions with stakeholders.
• Serve as escalation resource for complex migration and infrastructure issues.
• Collaborate with app owners, network, security, and leadership for platform integration.
• Oversee post-migration validation, optimization, and transition to operations.
• Deliver architecture diagrams, design docs, roadmaps, and knowledge transfer materials.

Skills

Infra architecture

Nutanix HCI design

Nutanix AOS/AHV/Prism

Migration leadership

VMware vSphere / Hyper-V knowledge

Compute/Storage/Networking

Migration strategy development

High availability / DR / BC

Capacity planning / performance

Team leadership

Client communication / stakeholder mgm

Hands-on troubleshooting oversight

Tools

Nutanix Move

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

Nutanix AHV tooling

Job description

Position Overview

MetroSys is seeking a highly experienced Senior Nutanix Solutions Architect to lead the architecture, planning, and technical execution of a large-scale enterprise infrastructure migration for one of our clients.

This individual will serve as the primary technical authority for the Nutanix migration initiative, responsible for evaluating the existing infrastructure, designing the target Nutanix environment, developing migration strategies, and providing architectural leadership throughout implementation.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Nutanix HCI technologies, enterprise virtualization, infrastructure modernization, and complex data center migrations. This is a hands-on, client-facing architecture role requiring the ability to translate business and technical requirements into scalable infrastructure designs while providing direct technical guidance to engineering and migration teams.

Key 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, and high-performance 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 existing 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.

Required Qualifications

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




• Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise Nutanix HCI solutions.




• Expert-level knowledge of Nutanix AOS, AHV, Prism Central, Prism Element, and associated platform technologies.




• Proven experience architecting and leading large-scale enterprise virtualization or infrastructure migration projects.




• Deep understanding of VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and migration strategies involving Nutanix AHV.




• Strong experience with enterprise compute, storage architecture, networking, virtualization, and infrastructure integration.




• Demonstrated ability to develop migration strategies for complex production environments with significant application dependencies.




• Experience designing high-availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity solutions.




• Strong understanding of infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, performance optimization, and scalability.




• Experience leading technical teams and coordinating migration activities across multiple infrastructure disciplines.




• Excellent client-facing communication, technical documentation, and stakeholder management skills.




• Ability to balance architecture responsibilities with hands-on troubleshooting and implementation oversight.

Preferred Qualifications

• Nutanix Certified Expert (NCX), Nutanix Certified Advanced Professional (NCAP), or equivalent advanced Nutanix certifications.




• Experience leading enterprise VMware-to-Nutanix AHV migration programs.




• Experience with Nutanix Files, Objects, Flow, automation, and cloud integration technologies.




• Background supporting large-scale data center consolidations or infrastructure transformation initiatives.




• Experience architecting multi-cluster, multi-site, or geographically distributed Nutanix environments.




• Familiarity with infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, or Python.




• Experience working in regulated or highly available enterprise environments.