Principal VMware-to-Nutanix Migration Architect

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical SME during client workshops, discovery sessions, and architecture discussions. 
• Provide expert guidance on VMware-to-Nutanix migration strategies, architecture, tooling, and best practices. 
• Review and validate proposed migration approaches, assumptions, timelines, and delivery models. 
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, potential bottlenecks, and mitigation strategies. 
• Advise on workload assessment, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, cutover, and post-migration validation. 
• Recommend approaches for minimizing downtime and operational risk during migration. 
• Evaluate migration tooling and opportunities for automation and high-volume migration. 
• Contribute to effort estimation, delivery planning, and migration team design. 
• Present and explain technical recommendations clearly to client architects, infrastructure leaders, and other stakeholders. 
• Share practical experience and lessons learned from previous enterprise migration projects. 

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience with VMware vSphere environments, including vCenter and ESXi. 
• Strong understanding of VMware infrastructure, networking, storage, and enterprise virtualization operations. 
• Proven hands-on experience with VMware migrations, ideally VMware-to-Nutanix. 
• Strong knowledge of Nutanix or comparable VMware-alternative platforms and their migration approaches. 
• Experience with workload assessment, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, cutover orchestration, and post-migration validation. 
• Ability to identify real-world migration risks and recommend practical solutions based on previous experience. 
• Experience designing, implementing, or reviewing migration strategies for enterprise-scale environments. 
• Ability to discuss specific migration projects you have personally worked on, including your role, scale, approach, challenges, and lessons learned. 
• Strong client-facing and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex infrastructure topics clearly and confidently. 
• Comfortable working with ambiguous requirements and helping turn them into a realistic technical and delivery approach. 

Nice to have

• Deep hands-on experience with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), AHV, Prism Central, AOS, and Nutanix Move. 
• Experience with large-scale migrations involving 2,000+ VMs. 
• Experience designing or operating a migration factory or other high-volume migration model. 
• Previous experience with Nutanix Professional Services, VMware Professional Services, or a similar infrastructure consulting organization. 
• Nutanix and/or VMware certifications. 
• Experience automating migration activities using PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, or infrastructure automation frameworks. 
• Experience leading migration architecture workstreams or providing technical oversight to migration engineering teams. 

We offer

• Competitive compensation
• Remote or office work
• Flexible working hours
• A team with excellent tech expertise