Senior Virtualization Architect
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Latin America, São Paulo, Brasil, Santiago, Chile
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, virtualization, or enterprise architecture.
- Extensive experience designing and assessing VMware vSphere/ESXi environments.
- Strong architectural knowledge of Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft infrastructure technologies.
- Demonstrated experience with virtualization transformation or migration projects.
- Strong understanding of enterprise compute, storage, networking, backup, disaster recovery, and high availability.
- Experience performing infrastructure assessments and developing migration strategies.
- Ability to evaluate complex environments and identify dependencies, risks, and technical challenges.
- Strong knowledge of virtualization architecture, capacity planning, and workload placement.
- Excellent architectural documentation and presentation skills.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work with senior stakeholders.
- Ability to operate independently and take ownership of the assessment from discovery through final recommendations.
Full description
Hi there! We are South and our client is looking for a Senior Virtualization Architect!Note to Applicants:
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Eligibility: This position is open to candidates residing in Latin America.
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Application Language: Please submit your CV in English. Applications submitted in other languages will not be considered.
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Professional Presentation: We encourage you to showcase your professional experience by including a Loom video in the application form. While this is optional, candidates who provide a video presentation will be given priority.
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Interview Policy: The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools during interviews are strictly prohibited.
- Note: As part of the final stages of the selection process, contractors may be asked to provide professional references for a reference check. If you're selected, you may also be asked to update their LinkedIn profile. 🙂
We are looking for a Senior Virtualization Architect to lead an architectural assessment of an existing VMware environment as the organization evaluates a potential migration to Microsoft Hyper-V.
This is a one-month consulting engagement focused on analyzing the current virtualization environment, identifying technical risks and dependencies, and developing a strategic migration roadmap. The successful candidate will provide architectural guidance and define a practical target-state approach.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural assessment of the existing VMware environment.
- Review the current virtualization architecture, including compute, storage, networking, clusters, workloads, availability, and management components.
- Analyze the environment to determine migration complexity, dependencies, and technical risks.
- Assess the feasibility and key considerations of migrating workloads from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V.
- Define target-state architectural recommendations for the Hyper-V environment.
- Evaluate potential approaches for workload migration, sequencing, and prioritization.
- Identify workloads, applications, infrastructure components, or configurations that may require remediation or special handling.
- Assess capacity, performance, availability, security, backup, and disaster recovery considerations.
- Identify gaps between the current VMware environment and the proposed Hyper-V target state.