Virtualization Architect

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.

• 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.

• Lead the design, deployment, and operation of Nutanix AHV, AOS, and Prism environments.
• Provide hands-on technical expertise in Nutanix cluster design, configuration, lifecycle management, and upgrades.
• Optimize Nutanix infrastructure components for performance, capacity, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Define Nutanix platform standards, best practices, and operational procedures.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex Nutanix infrastructure issues.
• 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.

• Design and operate highly available virtualization platforms, including active-active datacenter architectures.
• Design and implement synchronous and asynchronous replication solutions.
• Support metro clusters, disaster recovery, business continuity, and DR orchestration initiatives.
• Plan, execute, and document disaster recovery testing and business continuity scenarios.
• Ensure virtualization platforms meet defined availability, resilience, and recovery objectives.

• Design and operate software-defined networking solutions within enterprise virtualization environments.
• Implement secure network segmentation, traffic management, and network resiliency.
• Apply micro-segmentation, Zero Trust, and defense-in-depth principles across virtualized environments.
• Collaborate with network and security teams to ensure secure and resilient infrastructure architectures.
• Support troubleshooting of complex virtualization networking and security issues.

• Implement and maintain centralized management, monitoring, and automation platforms.
• Provide unified visibility across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and disaster recovery layers.
• Define operational dashboards, alerts, performance metrics, and infrastructure KPIs.
• Support automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual activities.
• Establish standardized monitoring and management practices across virtualization platforms.

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