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# Virtualization Engineer

- **Company:** Axiom
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, Amazon Web Services, Application Testing, Data Stores, Linux, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), VMware ESX Servers, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), Network Service, Network Time Protocols, Network Virtualization, PowerCLI, Windows PowerShell, Prism (Software), Ansible, Storage Virtualization, VCloud, VMware Infrastructure, Virtual Machines, Virtualization Technology, VMware VSphere, Software Vulnerability Management, System Availability, Vcenter, Nutanix, Restful APIs, Terraform, Servicenow, Vmware
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/94c31eaf-161c-4d03-a07c-5b11b6f6f136

## About the Role

· 5+ years of enterprise virtualization engineering or administration experience in a complex production environment.

· Hands-on expertise with VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter, including cluster administration, HA, DRS, vMotion, virtual networking, datastores and lifecycle management.

· Hands-on experience with Nutanix AHV and Prism, or demonstrated ability to support both VMware and Nutanix environments.

· Experience performing hypervisor and management-plane patching, security hardening, certificate maintenance, upgrades and vulnerability remediation.

· Strong understanding of virtual infrastructure dependencies across storage, SAN/NAS, backup, DNS, NTP, Active Directory, Linux, Windows and network services.

· Experience with change control, implementation planning, production validation, rollback planning and technical documentation.

· Working knowledge of disaster recovery, replication, backup integration, RPO/RTO and business-continuity requirements.

· Clear troubleshooting, stakeholder communication and independent problem-solving skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX, Aria Operations, HCX or VMware Cloud on AWS experience.

· Nutanix Life Cycle Manager, Flow, Files, Move, Leap or disaster-recovery experience.

· Automation using VMware PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform or platform REST APIs.

· Experience with Dell VxRail or other hyperconverged infrastructure platforms.

· VMware VCP/VCAP, Nutanix NCP/NCM, Dell Technologies or comparable certification.

· Experience in utilities, critical infrastructure or other regulated environments.

## Description

· Assess the virtualization estate, including clusters, hypervisors, management appliances, virtual networking, datastores, templates, lifecycle status and platform dependencies.

· Review vulnerability findings and vendor security advisories affecting VMware and Nutanix components; determine affected assets, business impact, remediation path, prerequisites and rollback strategy.

· Plan and execute approved upgrades, patches, firmware coordination and secure-configuration changes while maintaining platform availability and workload integrity.

· Administer and troubleshoot VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN and related services, plus Nutanix AHV, Prism Central, Prism Element and Life Cycle Manager where applicable.

· Support virtual machine provisioning, migration, cloning, snapshots, templates, resource pools, high availability, DRS, live migration and capacity optimization.

· Coordinate remediation that crosses Windows, Linux, storage, backup, network and cloud teams, including guest-tools, drivers, host compatibility and application testing.

· Validate remediation through vulnerability rescans, health checks, cluster testing, monitoring and evidence collection; update ServiceNow or client tracking records.

· Develop and maintain platform standards, architecture diagrams, operating procedures, remediation runbooks, implementation plans and knowledge-transfer materials.

· Automate repeatable administration and remediation using PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, REST APIs or equivalent tools.

· Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster-recovery exercises, maintenance windows and after-hours or on-call support when required.