Nutanix Resident Engineer - AUH

Summary: This role primarily focuses on assessing and optimizing customer use of Nutanix products, ensuring effective administration and superior customer experience within their Nutanix environment.

Responsibilities:

• Assess current usage of Nutanix products and drive adoption
• Understand and present Nutanix best practices and solutions to customers
• Ensure effective administration and support of the Nutanix environment
• Perform installation and configuration of Nutanix core products
• Manage upgrades and patching
• Facilitate migration from 3-tier systems to Nutanix
• Conduct cross hypervisor migrations (e.g., ESXi to AHV)
• Monitor alerts proactively and remediate issues
• Troubleshoot performance and availability problems
• Engage in capacity planning and reporting
• Manage VM lifecycle (creation, deletion, cloning, snapshots, etc.)
• Collaborate with Nutanix support for advanced troubleshooting
• Participate in DR drills planning and execution
• Act as a trusted advisor on Nutanix best practices and architecture
• Guide and mentor junior team members on Nutanix administration
• Liaise with Nutanix support and vendors for troubleshooting
• Automate administrative tasks using Nutanix solutions
• Collaborate with sales teams on new opportunities and customer reporting
• Keep customers informed on project statuses and updates
• Conduct PoCs for Nutanix products
• Facilitate training and enablement of customer resources.
  
  

• 5+ years of experience in system administration and virtualization technologies
• Strong knowledge of Nutanix AOS/AHV, VMware ESXi, and Hyper-V
• Ability to analyze and diagnose complex problems independently
• Nutanix certified engineer capable of handling day-2 operations of Nutanix clusters (administration, upgrades, integrations, etc.)
• Ability to deploy Nutanix clusters, including adding nodes and creating new clusters as the infrastructure scales
• Experience in migrating from VMware environments to Nutanix environments
• Familiarity with hardware vendor stacks, especially Cisco and Dell
• Excellent communication skills with a customer-centric approach
• Comfort with whiteboarding sessions and group presentations.
  
  

• VMware certifications such as VCP or VCAP
• Nutanix NCP certification
• Experience in workload migrations (P2V and V2V)
• Understanding of storage and data protection technologies (replication, backups, etc.)
• Exposure to Automation and scripting (Python/PowerShell) for task automation.
  
  

• Contract Type: 12 months, extendable
• Role Type: Mid Level Consultant
• Customer Interaction: Frequent
• Team Structure: Involves collaboration with internal teams and customers.