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Job Title

Nutanix/Resident Engineer

Department

Special Projects

Level

Senior

Location

Riyadh, KSA

Role Description

• Assess current usage of Nutanix products (core and portfolio) and drive adoption.
• Ensure a good customer experience through effective administration and support of the customer’s existing
Nutanix environment, covering
• Installation and configuration of Nutanix core products
• Upgrades and patching
• Migration from 3-tier to Nutanix
• Cross-hypervisor migrations, e.g., ESXi to AHV
• Proactively monitoring alerts and remediation
• Troubleshooting, performance, and availability issues
• Capacity planning and reporting
• VM lifecycle management (creation, deletion, cloning, snapshot, etc.)
• Collaborate with Nutanix support for advanced troubleshooting.
• Participate in the planning and execution of DR drills.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers while providing guidance on Nutanix best practices and references.
architecture, and validated designs.
• Leverage Nutanix products and features to automate administrative tasks.
• Collaborates with the Nutanix Sales Team in identifying and communicating new opportunities as well.
as ongoing customer status and reporting.
• Keep the customer well-informed by providing status reporting on projects, updates to software, and
any ancillary documentation.
• Conduct PoCs for Nutanix portfolio products
• Training and enablement of customer resources
Requirements:
• Sound experience of 8–10 years in system administration and virtualization technologies
• Excellent knowledge of Nutanix AOS/AHV and/or Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, or other converged or
hyperconverged platforms.
• Be able to independently analyze and diagnose highly complex problems across different platforms.
• Customer-centric approach, excellent communication skills
• High level of comfort performing whiteboarding sessions, group presentations, and other customer-
centric documentation.

Required Skills

Skills:
• ∙ VMware certification, such as VCP or VCAP.
• ∙ Nutanix NCP-certified
• ∙ Migration of workload, both P2V and V2V.
• ∙ Project management

Qualifications & Certificates

• ∙ ITIL practice, or certified (preferred) (Incident management, problem management)
• ∙ Understanding of storage technologies and data protection technologies like replication, snapshots,
backup, restore, etc.
• ∙ Python/PowerShell scripting to automate tasks (desirable)