Job Description :

Role Overview :

As the Cloud & Virtualization Architect, you will own the design and architecture of the enterprise virtualization platform (primarily Hyper-V) and its hybrid-cloud integration across a large-scale environment.

This is a senior architecture and engineering role not an operations or day-to-day administration role.

You will define how virtualization clusters are designed, sized, automated, and self-healed, setting the standards and reference architectures that operations teams execute against.

You will be the technical authority for cluster performance, capacity/right-sizing, and infrastructure automation, solving the hardest platform-level problems and driving the strategy rather than handling ticket queues.

Key Responsibilities :

- Serve as the design authority for the enterprise virtualization platform, primarily Hyper-V (Failover Clustering, storage, and networking design).

- Architect virtualization clusters for performance, availability, and scale including host standards, HA/failover design, and cluster topology.

- Own capacity planning and right-sizing across the fleet : node sizing, RAM/CPU/storage ratios, HA reservation models, and consolidation ratios grounded in real utilization data.

- Design and drive infrastructure automation and orchestration using Ansible and Terraform provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle as code.

- Architect self-healing infrastructure : automated detection and remediation of host, cluster, and VM health issues to reduce manual intervention.

- Define reference architectures, design standards, and build/validate/release pipelines for virtualization hosts and templates.

- Architect hybrid-cloud and cloud integration (Azure preferred), including landing zone design, connectivity, and workload placement between on-prem and cloud.

- Establish performance baselines and observability standards for cluster health, capacity, and utilization; use data to guide design decisions.

- Partner with compute, storage, network, and security teams to align virtualization design with hardening, compliance, and DR/BC requirements.

- Provide senior-level architecture guidance and root-cause analysis for platform-wide virtualization and performance issues; mentor engineers and set technical direction.

Qualifications :

Required Skills & Experience :

- Deep expertise architecting enterprise virtualization at scale, with primary strength in Hyper-V and Failover Clustering (VMware vSphere experience a plus).

- Proven experience with cluster performance engineering, capacity planning, and rightsizing across large fleets (thousands of VMs / hundreds of hosts).

- Strong automation and orchestration background : Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure-as-code and configuration management.

- Experience designing self-healing / auto-remediation systems for infrastructure health and reliability.

- Advanced PowerShell scripting for automation, reporting, and remediation.

- Solid understanding of the underlying stack : compute, storage (SAN/NAS/S2D/vSAN), and networking as they relate to virtualization performance.

- Hybrid-cloud and public cloud architecture experience (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP relevant).

- Strong grasp of HA/DR design, live migration, and workload mobility.

- Ability to operate as an architect : produce reference architectures and design documentation, set standards, and guide execution teams.

General Skills & Competencies :

- Proactive self-starter who manages time and priorities independently.

- Strong ability to translate business, performance, and capacity needs into comprehensive technical designs while building credibility across teams.

- Clear written and verbal communication; able to deliver formal architecture presentations to technical teams and leadership.

- Data-driven decision-maker who grounds design choices in utilization and performance metrics.

- Mentors engineers, drives platform and process improvements, and keeps current with the virtualization and cloud landscape.

Experience Required :

- 10+ years in infrastructure engineering with a significant portion in a virtualization architecture or technical lead capacity on large-scale environments.

- Demonstrated ownership of cluster design, capacity/right-sizing, and infrastructure automation (Ansible/Terraform) at scale.

Additional Information :

- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.