Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer – Nutanix Specialist

About the role

The Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer will design, implement, operate and continuously improve resilient enterprise infrastructure services. This position combines hands‑on operational ownership with technical leadership for infrastructure projects, ensuring security, availability and alignment with business requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor health, availability, performance and capacity of Nutanix, Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows, Linux, storage, backup, virtualization and Citrix platforms.
• Investigate alerts, service degradation and capacity risks; act as Tier 3 escalation point and lead root‑cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Plan and execute patching, upgrades, maintenance windows, certificate renewals, lifecycle activities and vulnerability remediation.
• Oversee backup jobs, replication and restore readiness; maintain evidence for operational reporting.
• Participate in on‑call rota, support critical incidents, planned maintenance and disaster‑recovery exercises.
• Lead or contribute as technical SME to Nutanix deployments, container‑platform rollouts, data‑center migrations, cloud adoption, platform upgrades and Microsoft 365 initiatives.
• Translate business, security and compliance requirements into solution designs, implementation plans, effort estimates and rollout schedules.
• Prepare and execute test plans, migration runbooks, implementation procedures, validation criteria and cut‑over/rollback plans.
• Coordinate vendors and cross‑functional teams to deliver controlled, supportable solutions and complete post‑implementation reviews and knowledge transfer.
• Design, deploy and administer Nutanix AOS, AHV, Prism Central/Element, including capacity planning, performance tuning, cluster expansion, VM provisioning and migration.
• Deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters on Nutanix Kubernetes Engine or equivalent, handling provisioning, upgrades, scaling and platform integration.
• Administer Azure infrastructure services and Microsoft Entra ID.

Required profile

• Proven experience in enterprise infrastructure operations and service reliability.
• Strong troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis skills.
• Ability to lead technical workstreams, manage risks and coordinate multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Experience acting as a Tier 3 escalation point for complex incidents.
• Solid understanding of security, compliance and vulnerability management processes.

Required skills

• Nutanix AOS, AHV, Prism Central, Prism Element
• Kubernetes (preferably Nutanix Kubernetes Engine)
• Microsoft Azure infrastructure services
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Microsoft 365
• Windows Server
• Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, etc.)
• Virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper‑V, Citrix)
• Storage and backup technologies
• Capacity planning, performance tuning and lifecycle management