Virtualization Engineer

Role Summary

The Virtualization Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and optimization of enterprise virtualization platforms. This role focuses on building and maintaining highly available virtualization environments, improving system performance, and supporting infrastructure reliability through automation, monitoring, and best‑practice operational standards.

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise virtualization platforms with a primary focus on Nutanix and Microsoft Hyper‑V.
• Administer and operate virtualization clusters, including upgrades, health checks, capacity monitoring, and lifecycle planning.
• Own virtualization storage operations, including performance troubleshooting, capacity optimization, and data protection integration.
• Define and enforce virtualization standards related to host builds, virtual machine templates, naming conventions, and resource sizing.
• Plan and execute platform upgrades, maintenance, and expansions through formal change management processes.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across compute, storage, and virtualization networking components.
• Partner with network and security teams to ensure proper segmentation and secure access to virtualization infrastructure.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting for virtualization performance, health, and capacity.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities, including replication and recovery testing.
• Automate repeatable tasks using scripting and infrastructure tooling.
• Provide escalation support, root cause analysis, documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Participate in after‑hours support for critical incidents as required.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a systems administrator or systems engineer.
• Strong hands‑on experience administering enterprise virtualization platforms.
• Knowledge of storage technologies, performance troubleshooting, and capacity planning.
• Understanding of virtualization networking concepts, including VLANs and host networking.
• Experience supporting backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation, with Power Shell preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Familiarity with secure configuration practices and supporting compliance‑driven environments.

• Experience with hyperconverged infrastructure platforms.
• Experience producing operational standards, diagrams, and runbooks.
• Familiarity with IT service design and infrastructure best practices.

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in our office in Blue Ash, Ohio. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Due to the nature of the work, U.S. citizenship or permanent residence may be required, along with eligibility to obtain a U.S. government security clearance.