
Nutanix AHV Virtualization Engineer
Cronos Europa
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Luxembourg • Luxembourg
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About the role
- Contribute to the design and implementation of Nutanix AHV clusters.
- Participate in the migration strategy from existing virtualization platforms to AHV.
- Prepare and validate infrastructure prerequisites (network, storage, hardware).
- Support deployment activities (cluster creation, configuration, validation).
- Define and implement best practices for AHV adoption.
- Work in tight collaboration with infrastructure engineering teams (compute, network, storage, security).
- Contribute to architecture design decisions and technical validation.
- Align with engineering standards, reference architectures, and CISO requirements.
- Provide operational feedback to improve platform design and automation.
- Operate and maintain Nutanix AHV clusters once deployed.
- Manage Prism Element and Prism Central.
- Perform lifecycle management (LCM): upgrades, patching, compatibility checks.
- Ensure high availability, performance, and resilience of workloads.
- Handle VM lifecycle (snapshots, backup integration, performance tuning).
- Optimize resource utilization across clusters.
- Configure Nutanix storage (AOS, containers).
- Implement replication and backup strategies.
- Support disaster recovery mechanisms (Metro Availability, replication).
- Develop automation workflows (Ansible, REST API, scripting).
- Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code and standardization efforts.
- Automate provisioning and operational processes.
- Integrate with enterprise observability tools.
- Apply security best practices and CISO policies.
- Contribute to secure configuration baselines.
- Ensure compliance with internal standards.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in virtualization and infrastructure engineering
- Proven hands-on experience with Nutanix AHV (project or production environments)
- Strong expertise in Nutanix ecosystem (AOS, Prism Element, Prism Central, LCM operations)
- Experience in infrastructure build and migration projects, ideally involving transition to Nutanix AHV
- Solid understanding of virtualization concepts (compute, storage, networking)
- Experience with automation tools (Ansible, scripting, REST APIs)
- Understanding of high-availability and disaster recovery principles.
- Ability to work in close collaboration with engineering teams
- Language EN / FR
- Secondary (nice to have): Experience with VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter, cluster operations), especially in migration contexts.
- Competence in handling platform lifecycle operations: patching, upgrades, backups, certificate renewal, disaster recovery concepts.
Benefits
- An attractive salary package
- A good work-life balance environment
- The assurance of working in cutting-edge technologies in an entrepreneurial spirit.
- The opportunity to develop your skills thanks to tailor-made training courses according to your needs
- A good job in a friendly place
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Nutanix AHVNutanix AOSPrism ElementPrism CentralAnsibleREST APIscriptingvirtualizationdisaster recoveryhigh availability
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunication