Senior Migration Engineer - VCF9 Migration

Experience : 6 - 10 years

Location : Remote

Notice Period : Immediate, 15 - 30 days

Skills : vSphere, vSAN, NSX, VCF lifecycle

Key Responsibilities :

- Leads complex, high-risk migrations spanning vSphere, vSAN, NSX network cutover, and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) lifecycle operations (upgrade, patching, workload domain management).

- Owns build validation for migrated workloads, confirming configurations conform to the Migration Architect's approved design and rollback plan before a wave is declared complete.

- Mentors Migration Engineer (Mid) staff on HCX/Zerto execution techniques, troubleshooting, and VMware best practices.

- Drives adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, PowerCLI, Ansible) deployment practices in partnership with the Automation Engineer to increase build repeatability and reduce manual configuration drift.

- Serves as the senior escalation point for complex migration issues, performing advanced root cause analysis and performance tuning across compute, storage, and network layers.

- Partners with the Migration Architect on SDDC-VCF mapping validation and flags design risk before it can impact a wave.

- Coordinates with the Network/NSX Engineer on critical-path network cutover sequencing for complex waves.

- Reviews and approves complex migration plans developed by the Migration Engineer (Mid) prior to execution.

- Generates and maintains advanced configuration and validation documentation for complex client production environments.

- Actively takes ownership of complex issues, understanding upstream/downstream impacts and designing/delivering solutions appropriately.