Black & Grey HR
Virtualization Architect
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Doha, Qatar
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- - 8–10 years of experience in enterprise virtualization, infrastructure, or related technology environments.
- - Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating Nutanix platforms in production environments.
- - Proven experience with Nutanix AHV, AOS, Prism Central, and Nutanix lifecycle management.
- - Strong experience designing and operating active-active data center architectures and metro-cluster environments.
- - Solid experience with hyperconverged infrastructure, hybrid virtualization, and multi-cloud environments.
- - Strong understanding of disaster recovery, business continuity, high availability, replication, and DR orchestration.
- - Hands-on experience with software-defined networking, virtualization networking, and infrastructure security.
- - Strong understanding of micro-segmentation, network resiliency, and security controls within virtualized environments.
- - Experience with centralized infrastructure monitoring, management, automation, and capacity planning.
- - Ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-layer infrastructure and virtualization issues.
- - Strong understanding of enterprise compute, storage, networking, and virtualization architecture.
- - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- - Strong documentation, communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
- Required Technology Skills: - Nutanix AHV and AOS - Nutanix Prism Central - Nutanix cluster architecture and lifecycle management - Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) - Enterprise virtualization arch
- - Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP)
- - Nutanix Certified Master (NCM)
- - Relevant Nutanix AHV/AOS certifications or credentials
- - Software-Defined Networking / Networking certifications
- - Cloud infrastructure or cloud foundation certifications
- - Other relevant virtualization, infrastructure, networking, or cloud certifications
Nice to have
- - Experience designing and operating active-active or metro-cluster data center environments.
- - Experience with large-scale Nutanix deployments in enterprise production environments.
- - Experience implementing synchronous and asynchronous replication and DR orchestration.
- - Experience with software-defined networking and micro-segmentation within Nutanix or other virtualized environments.
- - Experience integrating on-premises virtualization platforms with public cloud services.
- - Experience with centralized infrastructure management, monitoring, automation, and operational dashboards.
- - Experience leading virtualization migrations, consolidations, upgrades, and infrastructure transformation projects.
- - Experience working across infrastructure, networking, storage, security, database, and application teams.
- - Experience in highly available and business-critical enterprise environments.
Full description
Black & Grey HR is recruiting for an established technology solutions and services provider in Doha, Qatar. Our client is seeking an experienced Virtualization Architect to design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade virtualization platforms, with a strong focus on Nutanix technologies. The role will be responsible for building highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient virtualization environments across hybrid and multi-cloud platforms, including active active datacenter architectures, software-defined networking, disaster recovery, and centralized infrastructure management.
Key Responsibilities:
Virtualization Architecture & Design
- Design and maintain enterprise virtualization architecture standards, with a primary focus on Nutanix platforms.
- Define architecture blueprints covering compute, storage, virtualization, and software defined networking components.
- Ensure virtualization designs meet requirements for scalability, performance, security, availability, and operational efficiency.
- Participate in architecture reviews and ensure solutions align with enterprise technology standards.
- Design resilient virtualization architectures supporting business-critical workloads and enterprise applications.
Nutanix Platform Leadership
- Lead the design, deployment, and operation of Nutanix AHV, AOS, Prism Central, and related platforms.
- Provide hands-on expertise in Nutanix cluster architecture, configuration, lifecycle management, upgrades, and optimization.
- Ensure optimal performance, capacity utilization, availability, and resilience of Nutanix infrastructure.
- Establish and maintain standards for Nutanix platform deployment and operations.
- Troubleshoot complex Nutanix infrastructure and virtualization issues.
Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Virtualization
- Design and support hybrid and multi-cloud virtualization environments.
- Integrate on-premises virtualization platforms with public cloud services where required.
- Support cloud-adjacent and cloud-integrated workloads across enterprise environments.
- Ensure seamless integration between on-premises virtualization infrastructure and cloud platforms.
- Contribute to cloud transformation and virtualization modernization initiatives.
High Availability & Disaster Recovery
- Design and operate highly available virtualization platforms, including active-active data center architectures and metro-cluster environments.